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A House Of Pomegranates

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Oscar Wilde


A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prin…

The True and Inimitable Kings of Laughter

In The Seven Lively Arts

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Gilbert Seldes


“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…

12 - A Summons Home

In Across The Years

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Eleanor H. Porter


These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatu…

04 - Satire 4

In Satires

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Juvenal and Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …

13 - Mère Giraud's Little Daughter

In Racketty-Packetty House and other stories

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


This is a collection of short stories and fairy tales by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of The Secret Garden and A little Princess. (Su…

The New Accelerator

In Short Science Fiction Collection 046

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H. G. Wells


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Young King

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) and Oscar Wilde


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

07 The Second Best

In The Literary Sense

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E. Nesbit


A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…

Tales of Magic: Story 9

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

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Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

01 - The Old House

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853

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Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…

01 - Grandma's Story

In Spinning-Wheel Stories

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Louisa May Alcott


A group of stories-within-a-story, told in the classic Louisa May Alcott style. "I've a little cold," said the old lady, "and…

The Alchemist

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 017

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H. P. Lovecraft


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…