In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for humans:

Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro)

Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy

A Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov

The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

The Fly Katherine Mansfield

The Boar-Pig by Saki (H. H. Munro)

The Tiger Guest by Pu Songlbying

Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka