The Golden Argosy
| First published | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Dial Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Pages | 656 |
- Presumed first edition, no printing statement listed.
- The paperback printing only reprints twenty-five of the forty stories printed in the hardcover.
- Every story is preceded by a short biographical paragraph about the author of the story.
- Only fiction known to be relevant to this site are listed, there be others. A complete listing of this book's contents can be found on one of the OCLC sites.
- If his Wiki site is correct, editor Charles Grayson is not the prolific writer of archery non-fiction.
No ISBN on record — searching by title and author.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | The Happy Hypocrite | Max Beerbohm | Novelette |
| 43 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benét | Short Story |
| 56 | The Damned Thing | Ambrose Bierce | Short Story |
| 91 | Back for Christmas | John Collier | Short Story |
| 122 | The Bar Sinister | Richard Harding Davis | Novelette |
| 147 | The Red-Headed League | A. Conan Doyle | Novelette |
| 167 | A Rose for Emily | William Faulkner | Short Story |
| 223 | The Celestial Omnibus | E. M. Forster | Short Story |
| 304 | The Monkey's Paw | W. W. Jacobs | Short Story |
| 313 | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | Novelette |
| 453 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue | Edgar Allan Poe | Novelette |
| 481 | The Gold-Bug | Edgar Allan Poe | Novelette |
| 521 | Tobermory | Saki | Short Story |
| 541 | Markheim | Robert Louis Stevenson | Short Story |
| 571 | The Lady, or the Tiger? | Frank R. Stockton | Short Story |
| 606 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber | Short Story |
| 617 | The Other Wise Man | Henry van Dyke | Novelette |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Golden Argosy: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Short Stories in the English Language |
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1955 | The Dial Press | Hardcover | Anthology | 656 |