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

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Hljóðbók: 5 februari 2020