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Three Stories & Ten Poems

Published 1900 onward

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Ernest Hemingway - Three Stories & Ten Poems

The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) The book entered into the public domain in 2019. — Summary by KevinS

KevinS 1 hour 9 minutes

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Incubator Baby

Published 1900 onward

420

Ellis Parker Butler - Incubator Baby

Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewing old fashioned views of childrearing to embrace a scientific method. Science...

Scotty Smith 1 hour 11 minutes

Transfiguration of Miss Philura

Published 1900 onward

477

Florence Morse Kingsley - Transfiguration of Miss Philura

What would happen if someone really believed that «Ask and you shall receive»? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of mild-mannered spinster Miss Philura and her acquaintances in their small American...

annie70 43 minutes

Canterville Ghost (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

572

Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost (version 2)

A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 20 minutes

Third Person

Humorous Fiction

465

Henry James - Third Person

The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith...

Anthony Orr 1 hour 2 minutes

Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

Published 1900 onward

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Norman Duncan - Christmas Eve At Swamp's End

Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night;...

David Wales 52 minutes

Mollie of the Movies

Published 1900 onward

451

Kenneth McGaffey - Mollie of the Movies

This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a...

Amanda Friday 1 hour

Rain (Version 2)

Published 1900 onward

506

W. Somerset Maugham - Rain (Version 2)

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)

Linda Hogan 1 hour 27 minutes

Amy Foster

Romance

501

Joseph Conrad - Amy Foster

Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk....

Bellona Times 1 hour 21 minutes

Flood

Short Stories

452

Émile Zola - Flood

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...

R. S. Steinberg 51 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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