The Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories

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

People: Giacomo Rappaccini,  Giovanni Guasconti,  Beatrice Rappaccini,  Sherlock Holmes,  John H. Watson,  Stroke Moran,  Helen Stoner,  Grimesby Roylott

Places: Padua,  India,  Italy,  University of Padua,  England,  Calcutta,  Surrey