1001 Classic Short Stories& Tales

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2025-03-26

  THE THREE DAY BLOW by ERNEST HEMINGWA

In 1925 Hemingway's collection of his first short stories appeared as In Our Time, and included the cryptic The Three Day Blow.  He begins with a memory of  WWI, then gives us a dialogue between Nick Adams (Hemingway's alter -ego in his early stories) ...
2025-03-23

  MY UNWILLING NEIGHBOR by FRANK STOCKTON

A young man builds a home and vineyard at the top of a gentle slope in Virginia's Blue ridge Mountains only to find his home sliding downhill in a heavy rainstorm. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to te...
  me author
2025-03-19

  MY KINSMAN,MAJOR MOLINEUX by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

A young man from the country travels to Boston (during the days when the British soldiers were housed there) seeking his relative Major Molineux, who had promised the young man a chance to rise up in the world should he ever travel there after his scho...
2025-03-16

  LEAVE IT TO JEEVES by P.G.WODEHOUSE

Bertie gort himself in realtrouble this time- he's engaged. Only Jeeves knows what to do.
  Jon Hagadorn author
2025-03-09

  THE SPRING OF A LION AN ALLAN QUARTERMAINE STORY by H. RIDER HAGGARD

An aged Allan Quartermaine entertains a couple of old friends at his home who ask him for a story- and he rewards them with the story of the time he bagged 4 lions in one encounter.  
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2025-03-09

  THE WIND by RAY BRADBURY

A man of sciencewho has traveled the world searching for the source of the evil winds that destroy mankind finds himself pursued by them. He locks hilmself in his house in an effort to beat them.....
  ME author
2025-03-05

  COUNT KONRAD'S COURTSHIP by ROBERT BARR

A knight returns from the Crusades to his castle in Germany to find that the neighboring castle is under seige and that a beautiful 18 year old girl named Brunhilda Bernstein is defending it staunchly, the King having died during the seige and her brot...
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2025-03-02

  AFTER 20 YEARS and LOST ON DRESS PARADE A DOUBLE TREAT FROM O.HENRY

Two great short stories from O.Henry! AFTER TWENTY YEARS-  A cop walking the beat at night passes a man standing quietly in a passageway and they exchange greetings. The man tells the cop he is waiting for an old friend to show up- they had grown up to...
  me author
2025-03-01

  THE LEOPARD MAN'S STORY (FROM 1001 BEST OF JACK LONDON) SHORT SHORT SATURDAY SPECIAL

This is our way of reminding you that we offer new Jack London stories weekly every Sunday at noon ET at 1001 Best of Jack London- Here are the links: Our website: https://www.bestof1001stories.com/show/1001-best-of-jack-london-1/ Hit "Follow" at Appl...
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2025-02-26

  JERSEY AND MULBERRY by HC BUNNER

A cranky old lady writes a mean editorial to the city paper about an organ grinder who was playing beneath her window, asking the city to move him off the streets.A reader replies giving us a picture of that part of the city and just how many people lo...
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