The Golden Argosy
The Golden Argosy: The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language is an anthology edited by Charles Grayson and Van H. Cartmell, and published by Dial Press in 1955. It is famous for being the favorite book of novelist Stephen King. Stories. • "I'm a fool" by Sherwood Anderson • "The happy hypocrite" by Max Beerbohm • "The devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét • "The damned thing" by Ambrose Bierce • "The Chink and the child" by Thomas Burke • "Paul's case" by Willa Cather • "Back for Christmas" by John Collier • "Youth" by Joseph Conrad • "The bar  sinister" by Richard Harding Davis • "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle • "A rose for Emily" by William Faulkner • "Old Man Minick" by Edna Ferber • "The rich boy" by F. Scott Fitzgerald • "The celestial omnibus" by E.M. Forster • "The three strangers" by Thomas Hardy • "The outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte • "The killers" by Ernest Hemingway • "The gift of the Magi" by O. Henry • "The Gioconda smile" by Aldous Huxley • "The monkey's paw" by W.W. Jacobs • "The man who would be king" by Rudyard Kipling • "The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney" by Rudyard Kipling • "Champion" by Ring Lardner  • "To build a fire" by Jack London • "The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield • "Rain" by W. Somerset Maugham • "Big blonde" by Dorothy Parker • "The murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe • "The gold-bug" by Edgar Allan Poe • "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter • "Tobermory" by Saki • "The leader of the people" by John Steinbeck • "Markheim" by Robert L. Stevenson • "A lodging for the night" by Robert L. Stevenson • "The lady or the tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton • "Monsieur Beaucaire" by Booth Tarkington • "The secret life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber • "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County  by Mark Twain • The other wise man" by Henry Van Dyke • "Chickamauga" by Thomas Wolfe