1001 Classic Short Stories& Tales

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2024-12-18

  JEEVES AND THE UNBIDDEN GUEST BY P.G.WODEHOUSE

A friend of Bernie Wooster's Aunt Agatha shows upenexpectedly and drops her backward twenty- something son off for a month after receiving Bernie's promise that he will be sheltered from the evils of the big city. Less than twenty-fours later the son, ...
2024-12-15

  THE MIRROR OF THE MAGISTRATE- A FATHER BROWN ADVENTURE

Father Brown solves a murder and saves an innocent man from the gallows! Check out all our 12 podcasts at www.bestof1001stories.com! Most popular: 1001 Sherlock Holmes, #2 1001 Classic Short stories 7 tales, #3 1001 Heroes, legends, Histories & Mys...
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2024-12-11

  A TALE OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY by FRANK STOCKTON

A very clever tale about a man who invented an anti-gravity machine capable of lifting him off the ground with the turn of a screw. A number of hilarious encounters take place, one being this man's challenging an experienced mountain hiker to a hike up...
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2024-12-08

  THE ANGELOF THE ODD by EDGAR ALLAN POE

In this fractious tale our narrator,alone in his study, and bored with hi9s reading material, turns to a newspaper, and seeing the outrageous attention-getting headlines, compalins out loud about how gullible the readers must be to absorb this garbage,...
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2024-12-04

  THE HERBINGER and ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS by O.HENRY

In The Harbinger, a run down man and his two unemployed pals sit on a park bench and devise a scheme to rob the married man's wife of a one dollar bill so they can buy themselves a beer at the local pub. In One Thousand Dollars, a spoiled young man is ...
2024-12-01

  LEAVE IT TO JEEVES P.G. WODEHOUSE

The first of a series of cleverly written "Jeeves" stories by P.G.Wodehouse- featuring the butler who has every answer to every problem. Our narrator is a wealty young British man who has recently arrived in New York City with his manservant Jeeves and...
2024-11-27

  THE STORY OF SIR GAWAIN (CHAP 3) by HOWARD PYLE

A great story from Howard Pyle's 'King Arthur & His Knights" involving King Arthur's return to the evil knight's castle and his answering the riddle which was given to him to solve, followed by King Arthur's escorting the aged lady back to his king...
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2024-11-24

  THE REVERSIBLE LANDSCAPE by FRANK STOCKTON

Frank Stockton uses clever humor to poke fun at manufactured art in this humurous piece about a man who, while seeking to help out his local fire department using a money-making scheme, purchases a mass-produced piece of art with the hopes of raffling ...
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2024-11-20

  THE STORY OF SIR GAWAINE (CHAP 2)

This is really the story of King Arthur and how he was tricked by an evil conjurer during an overnight stay at a remote castle. In part two he promises the knight/conjurer he will return in one year with the answer to the riddle "What is it a woman des...
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2024-11-17

  TURKEYS TURNING THE TABLES by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

A little girl sits in her father's lap one Christmas Eve to listen to his story about the ghosts of the turkeys the family has enjoyed during past holidays. The story is not scary and can be enjoyed by all ages, Check out all our podcasts now at www.be...
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