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Short Stories Old and New

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This is definitely worth a download. Unfortunately, the titles aren't listed so I've done so below.

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

These are all stories that have been enjoyed for ages. If you haven't read these stories or haven't read them for a long time, The download will be very rewarding.

As the other reviewers have stated, these classics are always a great read. The story list will be welcome to all who consider ordering this item. Be aware that the formatting does not include an interactive Table of Contents but it is worth the time to use the Add a Note feature on your Kindle to mark the beginning of each story for easy access.

Pleasant reading. The list above will be helpful to all.
As we age our memory enjoys revisiting stories read when times were a bit less complex.

Enjoy!

Apparently, there is no way, at least no obvious way of going directly to a story you are interested in. The Table of Contents can be found by selecting the "beginning", then moving back a page. But to get to any of those stories listed, it seems you would have to "turn" page after page until you get there. Do you know of another way? What a nuisance! Well, I guess you get what you pay for...This is a free book so I suppose we're not supposed to complain. But I am, anyway.

A Christmas Carol is abridged. There is no mention of Marley's chains. I don't know about the others. I stopped reading it. Why don't they tell you this?

Short Stories Old and New is a great download for my Kindle. Even though I have read every one of the stories it is so much fun to go back and reread them on my Kindle. These are classic stories by my favorit authors and it is a pleasure to have them handy to read over and over. If you like the classic short stories, you will love this book. The Short Stories 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