In these selections, an animal plays an important role in the action or plot of the story. The animals in these stories are real or are stand-ins for humans:
Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro)
Kholstomer, The Story of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy
A Dark-Brown Dog by Stephen Crane
Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov
The Cat That Walked By Himself by Rudyard Kipling
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
The Boar-Pig by Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Tiger Guest by Pu Songlbying
Jackals and Arabs by Franz Kafka