English Folktale. A strange looking man asks a nurse to help his sick wife look after their baby boy. His wife gives her some ointment to put on the baby's eyes. When she puts some of it on one of her own eyes, she learns the family’s secret.
Indian Folktale. A story involving a famed holy man who turns out to be not very holy after all, a selfish rajah who wants to keep the holy man’s talents and blessings all for himself, and an overly curious princess who causes trouble for everyone by visiting the holy man.
Grade 3-4 Story by Laura E. Richards. A farm boy sets out to find a distant house that appears to have golden windows. When he gets there, he is disappointed to see that the windows are glass. A girl from the house points to the real house with golden windows
Short Story by Guy de Maupassant. The question in the title could refer to two things: the blissful year the protagonist shared with his lover before her unexpected death, or the vision of a message her ghost wrote on her tombstone as he was visiting her grave.
Short Story by Jorge Borges. An ancient Chinese scholar wrote a book about a labyrinth. No one could understand the book or find the labyrinth until a modern day sinologist solved the mystery. A descendant of the scholar murders the sinologist for a cause unrelated to the book..