Many say that some of their greatest friends, and their greatest joys and feelings, are about animals. Rather than find those same joys and feelings from amongst friends, family and the rest of humanity it can be far easier, some say wiser, to find that from other sources. Some animals may be entirely innocent and entirely devoted to us. But we forget that in the world of wild animals survival is the primary instinct and usually the great enemy is the human race.

In this volume our classic authors, including H Rider Haggard, Saki, Bret Harte, Jack London and many others bring us many tints and shades of our relationships with the animal world, both wild and domestic. Just be careful.

1 - Short Stories About Animals - An Introduction

2 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

3 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4 - Tobermory by Saki

5 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane

6 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling

7 - To Build a Fire by Jack London

8 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev

9 - A Yellow Dog by Bret Harte

10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac

11 - Misery by Anton Chekhov

12 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield

13 - Love by Guy de Maupassant

14 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett

15 - How They Stopped the 'Run' by Anthony Hope

16 - Long Odds by H Rider Haggard

17 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner

18 - A Lesson on a Tortoise by D H Lawrence

19 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne

20 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood

21 - Esme by Saki

22 - The White Silence by Jack London

23 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

24 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe