This is an anthology for people who love story-telling. Our one hundred classic masterpieces were selected purely for their capacity to delight, instruct and charm. In this collection, readers will encounter some of the finest writing in world literature.

We have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows:

1) Characters

2) Animals

3) Epiphanies

4) Mystery and Adventure

5) Horror and Ghosts

6) Strange, Surreal and Fantastic

7) Humour, Satire and Tall Tales

8) Love

9) Summer Tales

10) Winter Tales

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We hope this arrangement will encourage readers to move between the different parts of the anthology as their interest takes them, discovering as they do so, the shared sensibilities of authors remote in time and place.

Though these stories vary enormously in theme, tone and setting—from Russian snow storms, to spiritual epiphanies in Winesburg, Ohio—each of them has enthralled readers across generations; is exemplary in its attention to detail and evocation of mood; resists all simplistic and univocal interpretations, and remains as fresh and penetrating today as when it was first written.

At Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful e-books, and devote great attention to formatting, and ease of navigation. This book contains a cleanly-styled contents page that permits easy movement between the stories. 

Contents:

Part 1: Characters

Gusev — Anton Chekhov

Boule de Suif — Guy de Maupassant

Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy

Mateo Falcone — Prosper Mérimée

Little Brother — Mary E. Mann

Bartleby, The Scrivener — Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man — Herman Melville

The Ambitious Guest — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Darling — Anton Chekhov

A Simple Heart — Gustave Flaubert

Part 2: Animals

Sredni Vashta — Saki

Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy

A Dark-Brown Dog — Stephen Crane

Kashtanka — Anton Chekhov

The Cat That Walked By Himself — Rudyard Kipling

The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe

The Fly — Katherine Mansfield

The Boar-Pig — Saki

The Tiger Guest — Pu Songling

Jackals and Arabs — Franz Kafka

Part 3: Epiphanies

Araby — James Joyce

The Dead — James Joyce

The Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson

The Egg — Sherwood Anderson

A Death in the Desert — Willa Cather

Roman Fever — Edith Wharton

The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin

Home Sickness — George Moore

The Madonna of the Future — Henry James

The Kiss — Anton Chekhov

Part 4: Mystery and Adventure

The Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Arrow of Heaven — G. K. Chesterton

The Sign of the Broken Sword — G. K. Chesterton

The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe

The Master of Mystery — Jack London

The Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle

The Three Stranger — Thomas Hardy

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Jury of Her Peers — Susan Glaspell

Part 5: Horror and Ghosts

The Body Snatcher — Robert Louis Stevenson

The Signal-Man — Charles Dickens

August Heat — W. F. Harvey

The Monkey’s Paw — W. W. Jacobs

“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” — M. R. James

The Phantom Coach — Amelia Edwards

The Horla — Guy de Maupassant

An Inhabitant of Carcosa — Ambrose Bierce

Schalken the Painter — Sheridan Le Fanu

The Cask of Amontillado — Edgar Allan Poe

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