1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A huge collection of beautifully narrated and carefully chosen short stories from golden age authors (1850-1930) who knew how to deliver stories that reach the heart and soul of the reader and listener. Here you'll find short masterpieces from the likes of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Edgar Alla...
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HOT POTATOES by ARNOLD BENNETT
Hot Potatoes by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett's Hot Potatoes is a gentle comedy of good intentions gone wrong, centered on a devoted mother,...
ZERO HOUR by RAY BRADBURY
🕒 Summary of "Zero Hour"
"Zero Hour" follows a seemingly ordinary suburban day in the Morris household, where seven‑year‑old Mink and the neig...
THE FIRST CLASS PASSENGER by ANTON CHEKHOV
The First‑Class Passenger unfolds during a winter train journey, where a modest, observant narrator finds himself seated vis‑à‑vis a well‑dressed stra...
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by MARK TWAIN
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THE MONKEY'S PAW by W.W.JACOBS
"The Monkey's Paw", a classic horror tale from W.W.Jacobs places an old British soldier in a friends home with a tale to tell about the magical and da...
THE LADY WITH THE DOG by ANTON CHEKHOV
THE LADY WITH THE DOG SUMMARY
In this quietly powerful tale of unexpected love and emotional awakening, Anton Chekhov introduces us to Dmitri Gu...
A SAKI DOUBLE PLAY! THE OPEN WINDOW and A MATTER OF SENTIMENT by H.H.MUNRO (SAKI)
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THE NAMESAKE by WILLA CATHER
THE NAMESAKE by WILLA CATHER
The Namesake tells the framed story of Lyon Hartwell, an American sculptor living in Paris, who explains to a grou...
BROWN WOLF by JACK LONDON
Episode Summary — Brown Wolf by Jack London
Jack London's "Brown Wolf" follows Walt Irvine and his wife Madge and the wild, half‑tamed...
A REDEEMING SACRIFICE by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Episode Summary — A Redeeming Sacrifice (with an added twist)
Lucy Maud Montgomery's tender short story A Redeeming Sacrifice follows a quiet,...
OLD WELL WELL BY ZANE GRAY A BASEBALL STORY
Old Well-Well" is a classic baseball short story by Zane Grey, first published in the July 1910 issue of Success magazine.
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The...
THE ANTIQUE RING by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Antique Ring" (1843) is a fascinating departure from his usual dark, Puritan-focused dramas. It is a "story within a story"...
THE FURNISHED ROOM by O. HENRY
"The Furnished Room" is widely considered one of O. Henry's most somber and haunting stories. Unlike his more lighthearted or humorous tales, this one...
THE CHASE OF ROBIN HOOD by HOWARD PYLE
After winning an archery contest on behalf of the queen, the King decides to renege on his promise to allow Robin and his men a safe journey home, and...
THE BLUE CROSS A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K. CHESTERTON
METhe Blue Cross is the first of G.K. Chesterton's 53 great Father brown short stories, and it introduces two characters that are often used in future...
THE GATEWAY OF THE MONSTER by WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON
The Story Summary
In this inaugural Carnacki tale, occult investigator Thomas Carnacki is called to investigate the "Grey Room" in a centuries-...
ROBIN HOOD TURNS BEGGAR from THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD
Robin Hood finally achieves his dream of becoming a beggar, at least for a day, and in the process outwits and outfights a number of scoundrels who en...
A LOVE PASSAGE by W.W. JACOBS
"A Love Passage" is a lighthearted maritime comedy from W.W. Jacobs' 1896 collection, Many Cargoes, that satirizes the bumbling romantic efforts of sa...
AUNT PHILIPPA AND THE MEN
In this great short story by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, a young lady (Ursula) is ordered by her father to place some distance between herse...
THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY (PT 2) by CHARLES DICKENS
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THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY (PT 1) CHARLES DICKENS
"The Wreck of the Golden Mary" is a collaborative novella published by Charles Dickens in the 1856 Christmas issue of his periodical, Household Words....
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE QUARTER A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE
A young rugby player comes to Holmes with worries that their star player is missing and that something bad may have happened to him. Holmes and Watson...
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LITTLE JOHN AND THE TANNER OF BLYTH and ROBIN HOOD AND WILL SCARLET
Little John & The Tanner of Blyth- Robin Hood sends Little John on an errant to Ancashire but Little John takes a detour to the Boars head Inn, gets d...
THE LURKING FEAR by H.P. LOVECRAFT
A wealthy bachelor goes on a demon-hunting expedition to a deserted mansion in the Catskills and finds more than he bargained for. This spine-chilling...
A COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFE by O.HENRY
From THE FOUR MILLION by O. Henry
O. Henry's "A Cosmopolite in a Café" tells of the narrator meeting E. Rushmore Coglan, a man who claims to be...
A BROTHERS GRIMM TRIPLE PLAY: TOM THUMB, THE FROG PRINCE, AND BRIAR ROSE
3 Original fairy tales from The Brothers Grimm whose job it was to spend their lives collecting old tales-m the same ones that Disney and others clea...
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM by EDGAR ALLAN POE
In Scandinavia, there is a phenomenon known as the Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen, a system of tidal whirlpools found in the Lofoten archipelago in No...
LAZARUS COME FORTH by RAY BRADBUIRY
Planet Stories 1944 copy-A morgue ship with recent information gathered from space that would end a 300 year old war is commandeered by a greedy crew...
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask of Amontadillo is a story of revenge. A man named Montresor lures an old friend who unknowingly wronged him to sample his r...
THE BUSH FIRE by HENRY LAWSON (A.K.A.THE FIRE AT ROSS'S FARM)
This story was originally written as a 'Bush Ballad" or poem-story by Henry Lawson, and it describes how two competing farm families finally unite whi...
WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE by JACK LONDON
meTFrom Jack London's collection 'The Road': wo American businessmen stranded in riot-ridden Tampico Mexico shortly after the US occupied Vera Cruz sc...
BREAKING INTO FAST COMPANY by ZANE GREY
Breaking into fast company" is an old expression for a pitcher who makes the big leagues
I led my party into Morrisey's private box in the grand...
THE HUSBAND WHO WAS TO MIND THE HOUSE and THE CHOICE OF HERCULES (JAMES BALDWIN)
The Husband Who Was To Mind The House- is a folk talestory in which a husband complains tohis wife for not having dinner ready when he comes in from w...
BEST OF (#30 OF 502) THREE WISE MEN by DAMON RUNYAN
METhe Three Wise Men by Damon Runyan tells the story of three mobsters who stop to help a woman having a baby, and find unexpected redemption for thei...
THE TWO WINNIE THE POOHS
The real story of the two Winnie-The-Poohs!
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MAMMON AND THE ARCHER by O. HENRY
A young man of means expreeses frustration to his wealthy father over not being able to find alone time with the girl of his interests due to her busy...
A BLACKJACK BARGAINER by O.HENRY
A hopeless drunk and failed attorney finds redemption in this well written tale by O.Henry..
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THE PURLOINED LETTER EDGAR ALLAN POE
The Purloined Letter is one of Poe's ,three detective stories featuring the very sharp crime solver M. Dupin, who accepts the challenge of finding a h...
COOL AIR by H.P.LOVECRAFT
In New York City in the early twenties a writer finds a baely livable apartment in a rroming house.soon finding that directly above himlives an eccent...