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 Introduction2 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky3 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky4 - Tobermory by Saki5 - A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane6 - The Maltese Cat by Rudyard Kipling7 - To Build a Fire by Jack London8 - Mumu by Ivan Turgenev9 - A Yellow Dog by Bret Harte10 - A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac11 - Misery by Anton Chekhov12 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield13 - Love by Guy de Maupassant14 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett15 - How They Stopped the 'Run' by Anthony Hope16 - Long Odds by H Rider Haggard17 - How I Killed a Bear by Charles Dudley Warner18 - A Lesson on a Tortoise by D H Lawrence19 - The Lizard by C J Cutcliffe Hyne20 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood21 - Esme by Saki22 - The White Silence by Jack London23 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe24 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe