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 vision and each is uniquely memorable."