The Golden Argosy
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Author | Various |
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Country | USA |
Language | English |
Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | 1955 |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 656 |
OCLC | 297040 |
The Golden Argosy: The Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language is an anthology edited by Charles Grayson and , 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
- 1955 short story collections
- 1950s short story collection stubs