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. <br> <br>We have chosen to arrange the stories thematically, dividing the anthology into ten parts as follows: <br>1) Characters <br>2) Animals <br>3) Epiphanies <br>4) Mystery and Adventure <br>5) Horror and Ghosts <br>6) Strange, Surreal and Fantastic <br>7) Humour, Satire and Tall Tales <br>8) Love <br>9) Summer Tales <br>10) Winter Tales <br> <br>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. <br> <br>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; and remains as fresh and penetrating today as when it was first written. <br> <br>At Elsinore Books we pride ourselves on creating beautiful Kindle 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. We regularly update the formatting of our books, to ensure they will always remain perfectly accessible on all Kindle models. <br> <br> <br>Contents: <br> <br>Part 1: Characters <br> <br>Gusev — Anton Chekhov <br>Boule de Suif — Guy de Maupassant <br>Alyosha the Pot — Leo Tolstoy <br>Mateo Falcone — Prosper Mérimée <br>Little Brother — Mary E. Mann <br>Bartleby, The Scrivener — Herman Melville <br>The Lightning-Rod Man — Herman Melville <br>The Ambitious Guest — Nathaniel Hawthorne <br>The Darling — Anton Chekhov <br>A Simple Heart — Gustave Flaubert <br> <br>Part 2: Animals <br> <br>Sredni Vashta — Saki <br>Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse — Leo Tolstoy <br>A Dark-Brown Dog — Stephen Crane <br>Kashtanka — Anton Chekhov <br>The Cat That Walked By Himself — Rudyard Kipling <br>The Black Cat — Edgar Allan Poe <br>The Fly — Katherine Mansfield <br>The Boar-Pig — Saki <br>The Tiger Guest — Pu Songling <br>Jackals and Arabs — Franz Kafka <br> <br>Part 3: Epiphanies <br> <br>Araby — James Joyce <br>The Dead — James Joyce <br>The Strength of God — Sherwood Anderson <br>The Egg — Sherwood Anderson <br>A Death in the Desert — Willa Cather <br>Roman Fever — Edith Wharton <br>The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin <br>Home Sickness — George Moore <br>The Madonna of the Future — Henry James <br>The Kiss — Anton Chekhov <br> <br>Part 4: Mystery and Adventure <br> <br>The Red-Headed League — Arthur Conan Doyle <br>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle — Arthur Conan Doyle <br>The Arrow of Heaven — G. K. Chesterton <br>The Sign of the Broken Sword — G. K. Chesterton <br>The Purloined Letter — Edgar Allan Poe <br>The Master of Mystery — Jack London <br>The Problem of Cell 13 — Jacques Futrelle <br>The Three Stranger — Thomas Hardy <br>The Diamond as Big as the Ritz — F.