21 Great Stories

The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
To Build a Fire" by Jack London
The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling
The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
The South" by Jorge Luis Borges
Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
The Blind Dog" by R. K. Narayan
and Fifteen Other Classic Tales in One Volume

Masterpieces by some of the finest writers ever to make words come alive on paper, the stories in this volume have been selected to represent the full spectrum of the storyteller's art. Here are works of suspense, mystery, allegory, and human drama. Given sharpened focus through insightful editorial commentary, each of these tales is distinctive in style and visionï¿¿-- and each is uniquely memorable.