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By: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) | |
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Mère Giraud's Little Daughter | |
"Surly Tim" A Lancashire Story |
By: Frances Jenkins Olcott (1872-1963) | |
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Good Stories for Holidays | |
By: Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage (1814-1881) | |
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The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales |
By: Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) | |
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Abijah's Bubble | |
The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women | |
A Gentleman's Gentleman 1909 | |
The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht | |
Little Gray Lady
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out differently.. | |
The Man In The High-Water Boots | |
Fiddles 1909 | |
Homo 1909 | |
Forty Minutes Late 1909 | |
A List To Starboard 1909 |
By: François Coppée (1842-1908) | |
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The Lost Child |
By: Frank Banta | |
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Droozle |
By: Frank Belknap Long (1903-1994) | |
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The Man from Time | |
The Mississippi Saucer | |
The Man the Martians Made | |
The Calm Man | |
The Sky Trap |
By: Frank Gelett Burgess (1886-1951) | |
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Master of Mysteries
Subtitled, "Being an account of the problems solved by Astro, seer of secrets, and his love affair with Valeska Wynne, his assistant." Classic detective stories, with an atypical solver of them. Note, the book itself is published with no author name, which explains the introduction. Don't understand what I mean? Listen and find out! - Summary by TriciaG |
By: Frank Harris (1855-1931) | |
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Eatin' Crow; and The Best Man In Garotte | |
The Sheriff And His Partner |
By: Frank Herbert (1920-1986) | |
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Old Rambling House |
By: Frank Linderman (1869-1938) | |
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Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them intriguing explanations of "Why the Chipmunk's Back is Striped," "How the Otter Skin Became Great Medicine," "How the Man Found His Mate," and "Why Blackfeet Never Kill Mice." |
By: Frank M. Robinson (1926-) | |
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Decision |
By: Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902) | |
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The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales
A collection of nine enchanting short stories filled with curious beasts and unexpected endings. Included are The Bee-Man of Orn; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Queen's Museum; Christmas Before Last: Or, The Fruit of the Fragile Palm; Prince Hassak's March; The Battle of the Third Cousins; The Banished King; and The Philopena |
By: Frank Richard Stockton (1834-1902) | |
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The Magic Egg and Other Stories | |
A Chosen Few Short Stories |
By: Frank W. Coggins | |
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Say "Hello" for Me |
By: Frederic Max | |
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Rex Ex Machina |
By: Frederik Pohl (1919-) | |
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The Hated | |
Pythias |
By: Fredric Brown (1906-1972) | |
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Earthmen Bearing Gifts | |
Two Timer | |
Keep Out | |
Hall of Mirrors |
By: Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) | |
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What's He Doing in There? | |
Three Science Fiction Stories by Fritz Leiber
The Moon is Green, Bread Overhead and What's He Doing In There?! Three of the best known and loved Science Fiction short stories by the wonderful Fritz Lieber. Always tongue in cheek, and always with a funny twist, Leiber deftly shows how humans will adapt to or mess up the future. In ways that only humans can. | |
Bread Overhead |
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) | |
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White Nights & Other Stories
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation published in 1918 by The MacMillan Company, NY (USA) and Heinemann (UK). It contains these 7 works:- White Nights- Notes from the Underground- A Faint Heart- A Christmas Tree and a Wedding- Polzunkov- A Little Hero- Mr. Prohartchin | |
Crocodile
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the world from inside the crocodile make him quite a name for himself; while all the while the discussion rages outside as to whether the beast is going to be cut open to release him or not, its value as a sideshow attraction having massively increased owing to the presence of the human voice buried inside it. One of Jorge Luis Borges' seven most favourite stories. - Summary by Tony Addison |
By: G. C. Edmondson (1922-1995) | |
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Blessed Are the Meek |
By: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) | |
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The Trees of Pride
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? |
By: G. L. Vandenburg | |
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Jubilation, U.S.A. | |
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg
G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. These four are a selection that give a good taste of his offbeat approach, strange sense of humor and relaxed narrative style that brought joy and excitement to those of us who bought these magazines and saw his name on the cover. In the first, Martian V.F.W., some strange visitors join a parade; in the second, Jubilation, U.S.A, our first visitors from outer space... | |
Moon Glow | |
The Observers |
By: Gaston Derreaux | |
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The Sun King |
By: Gene Hunter | |
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Field Trip |
By: George (Henry George August) Hartmann (1852-1934) | |
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Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales |
By: George A. Birmingham (1865-1950) | |
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Lady Bountiful | |
Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 |
By: George Eliot (1819-1880) | |
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Brother Jacob
Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, in which she explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centered and ambitious David Faux and his idiot brother, Jacob. |
By: George H. Smith (1922-1996) | |
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Benefactor |
By: George MacDonald (1824-1905) | |
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The Shadows
“Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies…” George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle. The Shadows is one such fairy tale... | |
The Light Princess & Other Fairy Tales
George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adults, and this fantastic fiction influenced later writers such as G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. But you can find some of his best writing in the stories aimed squarely at children, and these are three of the finest.The Light Princess. A wicked aunt curses her baby niece so that gravity has no effect on her, and she floats through the air as if it were water... | |
The Cruel Painter
This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of torturing the youth with his own hopeless love. The story is set in late 16 century Prague, amid mysterious happenings and the terrifying rumors of a vampire on the loose. |
By: George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) | |
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Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others |