Around the World in Eighty Tales

A breathtaking collection of eighty classic short stories inspired by different locations, people and customs across the globe.

Australia

1. A Visit to Droughtland by Banjo Paterson

2. The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson

3. Hughey’s Dog by Banjo Paterson

4. In the Cattle Country by Banjo Paterson

5. An Error of Judgement by John Barry

6. A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby

7. The Dog by Banjo Paterson

8. The Downfall of Mulligans by Banjo Paterson

Asia

9. The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

10. Moti Guj - Mutineer, by Rudyard Kipling

11. The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

12. The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad

13. The Monkey and the Queen’s Jewels

14. The Tale of Princess Sambula

15. The Ass in the Lion’s Skin

16. The Talkative Tortoise

17. The Peach Blossom Fountain

18. The Lute Girl’s Lament

19. Typhoon off the Coast of Japan by Jack London

Africa

20. The Mother Stone by John Galsworthy

21. The Mystery of Sasassa Valley by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22. Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard

Middle East

23. A Professor of Egyptology by Guy Boothby

24. Lost in a Pyramid by Louisa M. Alcott

25. The Three Silver Citrons by Katherine Pyle

26. The History of Ali Cogia by Katherine Pyle

27. The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff

UK

28. England, My England by D. H. Lawrence

29. The Holly Tree by Charles Dickens

30. The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs

31. Where was Wych Street? by Stacy Aumonier

32. A Poor Gentleman by George Gissing

33. The Unrest Cure by Saki

Ireland

34. The Story of Deirdre – Traditional

35. A Legend of Knockmany – Traditional

36. The Dead by James Joyce

37. Red Hanrahan by W. B. Yeats

Germany

38. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat

39. The Jew’s Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

40. Germans at Meat by Katherine Mansfield

France

41. Jean-Grenier, the French Werewolf

42. The Girl who was Tired of Love by Leonard Merrick

43. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant

44. The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe

45. A Child’s Revenge by Paul Bourget

46. Miss Bracegirdle does her Duty by Stacy Aumonier

47. Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield

48. Miss Harriet by Guy de Maupassant

Italy

49. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

50. The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe

51. Maestro Niccolo and the Pig by Gio Sabadino

52. The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe

Spain

53. The Inn of the Two Witches by Joseph Conrad

54. The Walled Nun of Avila - Traditional

55. The Masked Ball - Traditional

Belgium

56. The Truce of the Bear by Sapper

57. The Nettle Spinner - Traditional

Switzerland

58. A Pastoral Horror by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Greece

59. The Widow of Ephesus by Petronius

Russia

60. The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain

61. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol

62. Oh! A Cossack Story by Katherine Pyle

63. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin

Poland

64. War by Sherwood Anderson

Balkans

65. The Wise Girl by Katherine Pyle

Scandinavia

66. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe

67. The Magic Pipe by Katherine Pyle

68. The Father by Bjornstjerne Bjornson

North America

69. The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville

70. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

71. The Eyes of the Panther by Ambrose Bierce

72. Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain

73. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

74. The Werewolves by Henry Beaugrand

75. Seeds by Sherwood Anderson

76. Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry

77. Curried Cow by Ambrose Bierce

South America

78. Submarine by Stella Benson

79. A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale

80. The Story of a Piebald Horse by W. H. Hudson