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By: Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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Trent's Trust, and Other Stories |
By: Bryce Walton (1918-1988) | |
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Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? | |
Strange Alliance | |
By: C. Alphonso Smith (1864-1924) | |
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Short Stories Old and New |
By: C. C. Beck | |
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Vanishing Point |
By: C. C. MacApp (1917-1971) | |
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And All the Earth a Grave | |
Tulan |
By: C. M. Kornbluth (1924-1958) | |
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The Altar at Midnight |
By: Cal Stewart (1856-1919) | |
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Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories
A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. |
By: Carl Richard Jacobi (1908-1997) | |
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The Long Voyage | |
Made in Tanganyika |
By: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) | |
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Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg’s desire for “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with animals, skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies, and other colorful characters. |
By: Catherine L. Moore (1911-1987) | |
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Song in a Minor Key |
By: Cecil Henry Bompas | |
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its Preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It contains a variety of stories about different aspects of life, including family and marriage, religion, and work. In this first volume, taken from Part I, each story is centered around a particular human character. These range from the charmingly clever (as in the character, The Oilman, in the story, “The Oilman and His Sons”) to the tragically comical (as in the character, Jhore, in the story “Bajun and Jhore”)... |
By: Charles A. Gunnison (1861-1897) | |
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In Macao |
By: Charles A. Stearns | |
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The Marooner |
By: Charles B. Cory (1857-1921) | |
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Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales
This is a collection of weird tales inspired from the natural history expeditions of the author, an independently wealthy bird collector, Olympic golfer, writer of many books on birds of the world, and, as evidenced in these pages, a fine storyteller to boot. |
By: Charles Dickens | |
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Three Ghost Stories
As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm. Three of them are presented here, of which The Signal Man is one of the best known. Though quite different from his most celebrated realistic and humorous critical novels, these ghost stories, Gothic and grotesque as they are, are of good portrayal, and worth a read/listen. Summary by Vivian Chan | |
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
A short story of a ship wreck in 1851 trying to round Cape Horn on its way to the California gold fields. Poignant and well written. ( | |
Mudfog and Other Sketches
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other Sketches. The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science founded in York in 1831, one of the numerous Victorian learned societies dedicated to the advancement of Science... | |
Holiday Romance | |
To Be Read at Dusk | |
Reprinted Pieces | |
Sketches of Young Couples | |
Sketches of Young Gentlemen |
By: Charles E. Fritch (1927-) | |
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I Like Martian Music | |
The Odyssey of Sam Meecham |
By: Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884) | |
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The Man In The Reservoir |
By: Charles Franklin Carter | |
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Old Mission Stories of California |
By: Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949) | |
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The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story |
By: Charles Heber Clark (1841-1915) | |
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Frictional Electricity From "The Saturday Evening Post." |
By: Charles K. (Charles Kellogg) Field (1873-) | |
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Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University |
By: Charles Knight (1791-1873) | |
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Mind Amongst the Spindles
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. The textile industry wove cotton produced in the South. In 1860, there were more cotton spindles in Lowell than in all eleven states combined that would form the Confederacy. Mind Amongst the Spindles is a selection of works from the Lowell Offering, a monthly periodical collecting contributed works of poetry and fiction by the female workers of the textile mills... |
By: Charles Louis Fontenay (1917-2007) | |
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Service with a Smile | |
The Jupiter Weapon | |
Disqualified | |
The Gift Bearer | |
Atom Drive | |
Wind |
By: Charles Reade (1814-1884) | |
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Stories by English Authors: England |
By: Charles Saphro | |
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Zero Data |
By: Charles V. De Vet (1911-1997) | |
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There is a Reaper ... | |
Monkey On His Back | |
Vital Ingredient |
By: Charlotte Niese (1854-1935) | |
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The Story Of The Little Mamsell |
By: Chas. A. Stopher | |
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Solar Stiff |
By: Clara Dillingham Pierson (1868-1952) | |
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Among the Pond People
Lovely book for children written by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of a pond. The beautiful writing brings the pond creatures into being in the reader's imagination and allows them a glimpse of the mysterious lives being carried out above and below the water's surface. |
By: Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988) | |
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The Street That Wasn't There |
By: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) | |
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The Prussian Officer | |
Wintry Peacock |
By: Damon Francis Knight (1922-2002) | |
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Special Delivery |
By: Dandin (6th Century) | |
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Twenty Two Goblins
These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst... |
By: Dave Dryfoos (1915-2003) | |
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Waste Not, Want | |
Tree, Spare that Woodman |
By: David Carpenter Knight | |
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The Love of Frank Nineteen |
By: David Henry Keller (1880-1966) | |
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The Rat Racket |
By: David Mason | |
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Something Will Turn Up |
By: Demetrios Vikelas (1835-1908) | |
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Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian |
By: Desmond Winter Hall (1909-1992) | |
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A Scientist Rises |
By: Dick Purcell | |
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Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot |