CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ESTHER, From the Old Testament
- THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY ROBBERS, From "The Arabian Nights"
- RIP VAN WINKLE, By Washington Irving
- THE GOLD-BUG, By Edgar Allan Poe
- A CHRISTMAS CAROL, By Charles Dickens
- THE GREAT STONE FACE, By Nathaniel Hawthorne
- RAB AND HIS FRIENDS, By Dr. John Brown
- THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, By Bret Harte
- MARKHEIM, By Robert Louis Stevenson
- THE NECKLACE, By Guy de Maupassant
- THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, By Rudyard Kipling
- THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, By O. Henry
