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Back to SearchHEARTS AND HANDS by O.HENRY
"Hearts and Hands" by O.Henry: This episode contains TWO stories from O'Henry: HEARTS AND HANDS: A young lady is traveling on a train from Denver when an old acquaintance sits down across from her. S…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL CHARTER" by CHARLES DICKENS
Charles Dickens had heard the news of the wreck of the Royal Charter in Wales in October of 1859 and traveled to that area during Christmas. The salvage operation was still in progress, and the small…
Published on 8 years, 10 months ago
THE SHIPWRECK by CHARLES DICKENS
This story by Charles Dickens is a part of a larger story about the 1859 wreck of The Royal Charter, a steam powered clipper on its way from Australia to Liverpool, and carrying 370 passengers and a …
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER by WASHINGTON IRVING
This tongue-in-cheek tale of a greedy man who makes a deal with the devil to broker a pirate's treasure by becoming a stingy moneylender is a Washington Irving classic, complete with a number of twis…
Published on 8 years, 11 months ago
THE VENDETTA by MAUPASSANT
Guy de Maupassant often dealt with horror genre stories, which earned him the nickname of the French Edgar Allen Poe. In this story, an old woman wreaks revenge upon the killer of her son. Not intend…
Published on 9 years ago
THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX
A tale of Greek mythology that tells the story of how Oedipus became the King of Thebes. Also this story first comes from Egypt, the Greek version has become the most widely known through the ages. T…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
MY RED CAP by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
This story from American writer Louisa May Alcott recalls her personal experience with a wounded Maine veteran while was serving as a nurse in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. Alcott was a proli…
Published on 9 years, 1 month ago
SOMEONE MUST PAY
This old tale tells of a thief, who, upon unlawfully entering a house and breaking his leg on a weak window sill while climbing in, brashly goes to court to blame his broken leg on the carpenter who …
Published on 9 years, 2 months ago
A SOUND OF THUNDER by RAY BRADBURY
In this excellent sci-fi short storyby Ray Bradbury, a hunter named Eckels pays $10,000 to a time machine safari service to bag the ultimate trophy. The company guarantees his safety but not his retu…
Published on 9 years, 8 months ago