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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