Fireside Al's Treasury of Classic Stories
by Alan Maitland, Guy de Maupassant, Damon Runyon, Thomas Hardy, Washington Irving, William Wordsworth, Jack London, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Richard Kennedy, Italo Svevo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sir Walter Scott, T. H. White, Alphonse Daudet, Roald Dahl, Edgar Allan Poe, Антон Павлович Чехов, Saki, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde · 1998
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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / 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.