Around the World in Eighty Tales

Summary

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