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By: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856-1923) | |
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By: Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) | |
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By: A. A. Milne (1882-1956) | |
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![]() Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual, they are funny, wry, and poke fun at almost all of our human foibles. There are 6 short one act plays that he wrote to demonstrate the 6 allowable plots for amateur playwrights and they are absolutely hilarious. The other topics run the gamut from dogs to dates. |
By: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) | |
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By: Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) | |
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![]() Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the "Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People". These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes how 5 frightened orphan children from a foreign country were cared for on a railroad journey of a thousand miles; all by strangers without any planning and without a word of English being spoken or needed. He observed caring human men and women of all ages doing whatever was necessary to see they reached their destination in whatever comfort could be provided... |
By: Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) | |
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![]() These 18 wonderful short stories by Eleanor H. Porter, the author of Pollyanna, deal with those marvelous and maddeningly frustrating creatures: human beings. As always, Porter describes real people with sensitivity and an insight into all of their variety that makes you say "I knew someone just like that". She is able to capture the faded, but not quite extinguished, dreams of the elderly and the bright hopes of youth. The theme of this collection is how we humans deal with life and love throughout our lives, "Across the Years", no matter where we are or what era we live in. |
By: Poul William Anderson (1926-2001) | |
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By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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![]() This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirts of a small New England town in a mansion with a magnificent garden. (Introduction by BellonaTimes) |
By: Michel Verne (1861-1925) | |
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By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) | |
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![]() The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the waters said or where the city went. |
By: Gilbert Parker (1862-1932) | |
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By: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) | |
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By: Rick Raphael (1919-1994) | |
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By: James H. Schmitz (1911-1981) | |
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By: Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960) | |
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![]() This charming book has many stories that deal mostly with the holiday of Thanksgiving, perfectly suited for family listening and reading. and gathers in one volume tales of tasty turkeys, festive parties, generous gestures, and holiday cheer. The stories featured include works by such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. So if you want to listen to some great stories that bring out gratitude for life and a thanksgiving attitude, here are a bunch of the best. |
By: Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) | |
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By: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) | |
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![]() THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance. From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone... |
By: Annie F. Johnston (1863-1931) | |
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By: Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) | |
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By: Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) | |
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![]() American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches. Their interactions are interwoven by the stories that they take turns telling after dinner each night to stimulate their nightly conversation and distract their thoughts from the war. |