The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language

Table of Contents:
I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm
The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce
The Chink and the child / Thomas Burke
Paul's case / Willa Cather
Back for Christmas / John Collier
Youth / Joseph Conrad
The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis
The Red-Headed League / A. Conan Doyle
A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
Old Man Minick / Edna Ferber
The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster
The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
The killers / Ernest Hemingway
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling
The show more incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
Champion / Ring Lardner
To build a fire / Jack London
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
Rain / W. Somerset Maugham
Big blonde / Dorothy Parker
The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe
The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe
Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
Tobermory / Saki
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
Markheim / Robert L. Stevenson
A lodging for the night / Robert L. Stevenson
The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton
Monsieur Beaucaire / Booth Tarkington
The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
The other wise man / Henry Van Dyke
Chickamauga / Thomas Wolfe. show less