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14 - Three Open Letters
In A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories
Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…
Introduction
In Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
Bindle
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…
A Curious Fragment
In When God Laughs, and Other Stories
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …
00 - Table of Contents
In Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age is a captivating collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, showcasing the vibrancy and complexity of …
In an Omnibus
In Voces Populi
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
White and Yellow
In Tales of the Fish Patrol
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
Mrs. Bindle
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…
Max Carrados
Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observati…
Preface
In Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…
A Memorandum of Sudden Death
In A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West
This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the co…
The Mysterious Bride
In Short Story Collection Vol. 050
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 050: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
A Double-Dyed Deceiver
In Short Story Collection Vol. 046
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 046: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
10 - A Lesson in Deduction
In Malcolm Sage, Detective
Step into the intriguing world of Malcolm Sage, a detective whose sharp mind and keen instincts unravel the most perplexing mysteries. This …
Two Whole Glorious Weeks
In Short Science Fiction Collection 073
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
A Matter of Taste
In Short Science Fiction Collection 076
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Chapter 50 "After" Jenkins
In Sketches New and Old
This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1882. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the or…
The Blow-Out at Jenkins's Grocery, by Ella Higginson
In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 03 December 1896
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
When Day is Done
In Short Science Fiction Collection 074
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Just Meat
In Short Story Collection Vol. 048
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 048: a collection of 19 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.