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By: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913) | |
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Can Such Things Be?
24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time. | |
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this recording (from an undated English edition). The 1891 edition is entitled In The Midst Of Life; Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians. The Wikipedia entry for the book uses the title Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – after December 26, 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist... | |
The Damned Thing 1898, From "In the Midst of Life" | |
Fantastic Fables |
By: Amy Walton (1848-1899) | |
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Kitchen Cat and Other Stories
These are three stories that will delight your heart and soul. The little girl Ruth in the first story is very privileged young lady with everything she could wish for except,of course, for companionship. Her mother has passed away and her father is a very busy lawyer who barely notices she is there. But then Ruth finds a scruffy, skinny and mostly ugly cat; the cat who lives in the kitchen and cellars,hence The Kitchen Cat. Her attempts to befriend this stray despite insurmountable obstsacles make this story a really heart warming tale... |
By: Anatole France (1844-1924) | |
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The Well of Saint Clare | |
Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 | |
Putois 1907 |
By: Anderson Horne | |
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The Day of the Dog |
By: Andre Norton (1912-2005) | |
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All Cats Are Gray | |
The Gifts of Asti |
By: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) | |
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The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was translated from the Arabic — first into French and then into English and other European languages. The first English language edition, based on Galland’s French rather than the original Arabic, rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment – and this, or simply The Arabian Nights, has been the title by which it has been best known to English-speaking people ever since. | |
The Pink Fairy Book
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales... | |
The Olive Fairy Book
Andrew Lang’s Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. | |
The Disentanglers | |
Grass of Parnassus |
By: Anna Fuller (1853-1916) | |
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A Bookful of Girls |
By: Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935) | |
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Missing: Page Thirteen
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical scientist, a bride and groom, depend on the quick resolution of this problem. In solving one mystery, she uncovers another which dates back many years. | |
The Amethyst Box
On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help, they try to recover the box before the poison can be administered... | |
Midnight In Beauchamp Row 1895 |
By: Anne Wales Abbott ed. (1808-1908) | |
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Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be printed. They are published with the hope of aiding a work of charity,—the establishment of an Agency for the benefit of the poor in Cambridge,—to which the proceeds of the sale will be devoted. |
By: Anne Walker | |
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A Matter of Proportion |
By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) | |
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Cicely and Other Stories |
By: Annie Hamilton Donnell (1862-) | |
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Rebecca Mary |
By: Annie Trumbull Slosson (1838-1926) | |
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Story-Tell Lib |
By: Anonymous (1821-1890) | |
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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her... | |
Child’s New Story Book
Short and sweet stories for children. | |
Tiny Story Book
Short and sweet stories for children. | |
Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native | |
Incidents of Childhood
Short stories for children that hide practical lessons within charming glimpses of life in England in the Early 19th Century. |
By: Anstey, F. (1856-1934) | |
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The Black Poodle and Other Tales
This is a collection of ten humorous short stories |