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