The golden argosy
Subtitle: a collection of the most celebrated short stories in the English language
By: edited, and with comments, by Charles Grayson and Van H. Cartmell
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
Subjects: Short stories
Other titles: Collection of the most celebrated short stories in the English language; Most celebrated short stories in the English language
Notes: commitment to retain 20151204
Table of contents: title: I'm a fool  -- Sherwood Anderson; title: The happy hypocrite  -- Max Beerbohm; title: The devil and Daniel Webster  -- Stephen Vincent Benét; title: The damned thing  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: The Chink and the child  -- Thomas Burke; title: Paul's case  -- Willa Cather; title: Back for Christmas  -- John Collier; title: Youth  -- Joseph Conrad; title: The bar sinister  -- Richard Harding Davis; title: The Red-Headed League  -- A. Conan Doyle; title: A rose for Emily  -- William Faulkner; title: Old Man Minick  -- Edna Ferber; title: The rich boy  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: The celestial omnibus  -- E.M. Forster; title: The three strangers  -- Thomas Hardy; title: The outcasts of Poker Flat  -- Bret Harte; title: The killers  -- Ernest Hemingway; title: The gift of the Magi  -- O. Henry; title: The Gioconda smile  -- Aldous Huxley; title: The monkey's paw  -- W.W. Jacobs; title: The man who would be king  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: Champion  -- Ring Lardner; title: To build a fire  -- Jack London; title: The fly  -- Katherine Mansfield; title: Rain  -- W. Somerset Maugham; title: Big blonde  -- Dorothy Parker; title: The murders in the Rue Morgue  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The gold-bug  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Flowering Judas  -- Katherine Anne Porter; title: Tobermory  -- Saki; title: The leader of the people  -- John Steinbeck; title: Markheim  -- Robert L. Stevenson; title: A lodging for the night  -- Robert L. Stevenson; title: The lady, or the tiger?  -- Frank R. Stockton; title: Monsieur Beaucaire  -- Booth Tarkington; title: The secret life of Walter Mitty  -- James Thurber; title: The jumping frog  -- Mark Twain; title: The other wise man  -- Henry Van Dyke; title: Chickamauga -- Thomas Wolfe.