Short Stories Old and New

Alphonso Smith (28 May 1864 - 13 June 1924) was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist.

Professor Smith's collected and edited short stories in this title is a must read for anyone interested in literature. His chosen stories in this volume are:

1. Esther - from Old Testament

2. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

3. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

4. The Gold-bug - Edgar Allan Poe

5. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

6. The Great Stone Face - Nathaniel Hawthorne

7. Rab & His Friends - Dr. John Brown

8. The Outcasts of Poker Flat - Bret Harte

9. Markheim - Robert Louis Stevenson

10. The Necklace - Guy de Maupassant

11. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling

12. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry