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The golden argosy : a collection of the most celebrated short stories in the English language / edited by Van H. Cartmell & Charles Grayson.
LIBRA 823C G7991 1955
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LIBRA - Special PN6014 .G653 1955
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- English-speaking countries--Fiction.
- English-speaking countries.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 656 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Press, [1955]
- Contents:
- I'm a fool / Sherwood Anderson
- The happy hypocrite / Max Beerbohm
- The Devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét
- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce
- The Chink and the child / Thomas Burke
- Paul's case / Willa Cather
- Back for Christmas / John Collier
- Youth / Joseph Conrad
- The bar sinister / Richard Harding Davis
- The Red-headed League / A. Conan Doyle
- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner
- Old Man Minick / Edna Ferber
- The rich boy / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster
- The three strangers / Thomas Hardy
- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
- The killers / Ernest Hemingway
- The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
- The man who would be king ; The incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney / Rudyard Kipling
- Champion / Ring Lardner
- To build a fire / Jack London
- The fly / Katherine Mansfield
- Rain / W. Somerset Maugham
- Big Blonde / Dorothy Parker
- The murders in the Rue Morgue ; The gold-bug / Edgar Allan Poe
- Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter
- Tobermory / Saki
- The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
- Markheim ; A lodging for the night / Robert L. Stevenson
- The lady or the tiger? / Frank R. Stockton
- Mousieur Beaucaire / Booth Tarkington
- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
- The other wise man / Henry Van Dyke
- Chickamauga / Thomas Wolfe.
- Notes:
- Editors' names in reverse order in previous ed.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 297040
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