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Preface

by Stephen Leacock Read by Esther 4.2
In Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be on…

Introductory Note

by Katherine Mansfield Read by Rob Marland 3.7
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…

Chapter IV - Our Grand Project, part 2

by Wilkie Collins Read by Peter John Keeble 4.3
In The Queen of Hearts
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…

Introduction

by Frank Norris Read by David Wales 4.1
In The Third Circle
Sixteen short stories by the American novelist Benjamin Frank Norris Jr (1870-1902) who wrote predominantly in the naturalist genre. He liv…

No Story

by O. Henry Read by tovarisch 4.1
In Options
O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonder…

Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance

by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Read by Wayne Cooke 3.9
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

Preface

by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by Gesine 3.4
In The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

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