Title: The Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories
First published: 1954
Description: The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe --
[Rappaccini's daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens --
Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving --
The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte --
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain --
The real thing / Henry James --
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry --
Marjorie Daw / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton --
In the fog / Richard Harding Davis --
A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The man who would be king / Rudyard Kipling --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
A passion in the desert / Honoré de Balzac --
Verotchka / Anton Checkov --
Our lady's juggler / Anatole France --
[Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --
The doll's house / Katherine Mansfield --
A gray sleeve / Stephen Crane --
The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad --
Plum pudding and mince pie / Alice Duer Miller --
Land / Sinclair Lewis --
The killers / Ernest Hemmingway --
The leader of the people / John Steinbeck.
Subjects: amorality, Anglo-Saxons, aristocracy, detective fiction, Fiction, Juvenile audience, locked-room mysteries, Mystery and detective stories, Drama, Private investigators, Children's fiction, American Short stories, English Short stories, Short stories, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, short story
Places: Padua, India, Italy, University of Padua, England, Calcutta, Surrey
People: Giacomo Rappaccini, Giovanni Guasconti, Beatrice Rappaccini, Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, Stroke Moran, Helen Stoner, Grimesby Roylott