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M. E. Francis - In a North Country Village

M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant...

Phil Benson 5 hours

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Published 1900 onward

477

John Galsworthy - Five Tales

This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic , The Apple Tree (1916), The Juryman , Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) This last...

David Wales 11 hours 41 minutes

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Heywood Broun - Seeing Things at Night

This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)

Barry Eads and 6 more 6 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

584

Baroness Emma Orczy - 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...

Edward W. LaBonte and 7 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

477

Mark Twain - $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)

TriciaG and 6 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Family Life

487

Henry van Dyke - Spirit of Christmas (version 2)

A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson).

David Leeson 35 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

520

Andrew Lang - Arabian Nights Entertainments

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...

Neeru Iyer and 15 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Short Stories

496

E. W. Hornung - Thief in the Night - Version 2

A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was the third book in the series, and the final collection of short stories. In...

Kristin Hughes and 4 more 6 hours 11 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

455

Oliver Onions - Widdershins (Version 2)

Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One , widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction,...

Kevin Green and 5 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected letters, sketches and stories. (Summary by enko)

Enko and 3 more 2 hours 4 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Tales of Unrest

Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short...

Sibella Denton and 5 more 7 hours 5 minutes

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Westerns

532

Robert E. Howard - Bear Creek Collection Volume 1

Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly...

RK Wilcox 6 hours 30 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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