The collection you are holding in your hands includes the scarce short stories of our "poor saint of letters" sorted chronologically. They can be easily and quickly read due to their size, by both young and old, whether familiar with the work and its versatile language or not. Those who have not delved into it may be encouraged to continue and explore the larger works in order to complete their spiritual pilgrimage that can only offer intellectual "wealth". In fact, several are considered handmade, meaning masterpieces that do not seem to have been written by human hand, such as "Father at Home", "The Fallen Dervish", "Love in the Snow", "The Flower of the Sea", "The Winged Gifts", "The Lament of the Seal", and perhaps the most beautiful ecological short story in modern Greek literature titled "Under the Royal Oak"...