Fireside Al’s Treasury of Classic Stories

The necklace / Guy de Maupassant — Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon — A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy — Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving — Michael / William Wordsworth — To build a fire / Jack London — The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain — The signalman / Charles Dickens — Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy — In my indolence / Italo Svevo — Mr. Higginbotham’s catastrophe / Nathaniel Hawthorne — Lochinvar / Sir Walter Scott — The Griffin and the Minor Canon / Frank Stockton — The elixir of Father Gaucher / Alphonse Daudet — Taste Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe — The lady with the dog / Anton Chekhov — The Schartz-Metterklume method / Saki (H.H. Munro) — A lodging for the night / Robert Louis Stevenson — The Canterville Ghost / Oscar Wilde.