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By: Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1890-1941) | |
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The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story |
By: Edward Lear (1812-1888) | |
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A Book of Nonsense
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been well loved by many generations of children (and adults). ( | |
By: Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) | |
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Taken Alive |
By: Edward William Thomson (1849-1924) | |
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Old Man Savarin and Other Stories |
By: Edwin Lefevre (1871-1943) | |
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The Tipster 1901, From "Wall Street Stories" |
By: Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) | |
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Mintage
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: Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1846-1902) | |
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Historic Girls
Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. |
By: Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920) | |
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The Tangled Threads | |
Across The Years
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: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872-1958) | |
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The Indiscreet Letter
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an ‘indiscreet letter.’ The discussion albeit short, produces some rather interesting revelations during the journey and at journey’s end. |
By: Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935) | |
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The Shape of Fear | |
A Mountain Woman | |
A Michigan Man 1891 |
By: Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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The Grey Woman
A “Bluebeard” story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. | |
The Grey Woman and other Tales |
By: Elizabeth Sandham | |
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Cup of Sweets, that Can Never Cloy: Or, Delightful Tales for Good Children
Twenty-two moral stories for children. A collection of short stories about good little boys & girls and the rewards that come from good behavior, and naughty children who suffer the consequences of their actions. "Arabella fancied there could be no pleasure in the world equal to that of listening to conversations in which she had no concern, peeping into her mamma's drawers and boxes, and asking impertinent questions. If a parcel was brought to the house, she had no rest till she had found out what was in it; and if her papa rung the bell, she would never quit the room till the servant came up, that she might hear what he wanted." - from "Curiosity"- Summary by Krista Zaleski |
By: Elizabeth Stoddard (1823-1902) | |
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Lemorne Versus Huell |
By: Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873-1961) | |
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Civilization Tales of the Orient |
By: Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) | |
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Pigs is Pigs | |
Solander's Radio Tomb | |
The Water goats and other troubles |
By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) | |
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The Singing Mouse Stories
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: Émile Zola (1840-1902) | |
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The Flood, trans. by an unknown translator
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family’s 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature. | |
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
By: Emilie Kip Baker | |
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Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools |
By: Emma Orczy (1865-1947) | |
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney’s exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in the series. |
By: Erckmann-Chatrian | |
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The Dean's Watch |
By: Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) | |
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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ‘Kai Lung’ books – Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married detectives. Max Carrados was however probably the first blind detective. |
By: Ernest M. Kenyon | |
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Security |
By: Ethel M. Dell (1881-1939) | |
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The Swindler and Other Stories | |
The Odds And Other Stories |
By: Eugene Field (1850-1895) | |
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Second Book of Tales | |
The Holy Cross and Other Tales |
By: Eva March Tappan (1854-1930) | |
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Makers of Many Things
How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's book explains the origins of everyday items in an entertaining and informative way. There are plenty of illustrations, so please feel free to read along. |
By: Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) | |
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The Blue Tower | |
The Doorway | |
The Most Sentimental Man |
By: Everett B. Cole (1918-1977) | |
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The Players |
By: F. Clifford (Frank Clifford) Smith (1865-1937) | |
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A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories |
By: F. E. Hardart | |
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The Beast of Space |
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A life lived backwards, with events happening in reverse order forms the strange and unexpected framework of one of F Scott Fitzgerald's rare short stories. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was published in Collier's in 1927 and the idea came to Fitzgerald apparently from a quote of Mark Twain's in which he regretted that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst at the end. Fitzgerald's concept of using this notion and turning the normal sequence of life on its head resulted in this delightful, thought provoking fantasy tale... | |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by BellonaTimes) |
By: Fanny Coe [editor] (1866-1956) | |
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The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
This is a delightful collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to listen to by children and adults and most teach valuable lessons about life. Some of the stories are: A Legend of the North Wind; How the Robin's Breast became Red; The Little Rabbits; St Christopher; The Necklace of Truth; A Night with Santa Claus; The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe; Pocahontas and How Molly spent her Sixpence |
By: Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) | |
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A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" |
By: Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862) | |
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The Diamond Lens |
By: Floyd L. Wallace (1915-2004) | |
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Second Landing | |
Bolden's Pets |
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) | |
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"Seth" | |
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.. | |
Fiddles 1909 | |
The Man In The High-Water Boots |