Publisher's Synopsis
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
