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Human Boy And The War

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Chapter: 13 | Listen: 1

Published in 1916, this is the third collection of thirteen humorous short stories about English school boys in a boarding school in the fictitious village Merivale. This book, of course, has World War I as a backdrop. Each story is told in the voice of a different boy at the school. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy Again (1908). Eden Phillpotts was popular with the reading public and wrote prolifically novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and nonfiction. (David Wales) [chương_files]

Strength of the Strong

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Seven short stories, written around the middle of London’s writing career. The stories take place in diverse settings and time periods, from prehistoric times to the future. Plots include a worldwide work strike, a sociopath serial killer, a sailor returning home after years at sea, and more. (Summary by TriciaG) [chương_files]

Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

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Chapter: 25 | Listen: 1

In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in step or out of sorts, where they are meant to be or warned not to go, out of luck or, more often than not, in it. – Summary by A. Gramour [chương_files]

Stories Weird and Wonderful

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A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter. [chương_files]

Stoneground Ghost Tales

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The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England’s fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is a kindly, humane bachelor and amateur antiquarian, very much like Swain himself. (adapted from wikipedia by Ann Boulais) [chương_files]

Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories

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A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of “Blackmailing Stories”, “Spook Stories”, “Cat Stories”, “Crank Stories”, and “General Stories”. From the preface: “[S]uch readers as are in search merely of the lighter…aspects of life, will be able to avoid like poison so innocent-looking a title as “The Countess of Lowndes Square,” for surely they would not find therein the fashionable descriptions of high life which they might reasonably anticipate, but would merely cast the book from them in disgust, when they discovered that one who had been the wife of an Earl, and ought therefore to have known ever so much better, belonged to the most contemptible of the criminal classes.” – Summary by Devorah Allen [chương_files]

Slav Soul and Other Stories

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Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often “neurotic and vulnerable”. Many films and radio programs based on his works have been produced. These 15 short stories, typically “artful studies of abnormal states of mind”, were selected from various sources. The collection includes “Easter Day” (a chance meeting); “The Picture” (intense envy); “Hamlet” (a fading actor); “The Last Word” (a psychotic confession); “Dogs’ Happiness” (strays in jeopardy); “A Clump of Lilacs” (a wife’s ingenuity); “Anathema” (a curse); and “Tempting Providence” (homeward bound). “The White Poodle” and “The Elephant”, appropriate for all readers, were intended by the author to be read aloud to children. ( Lee Smalley) [chương_files]

Uncollected Short Stories of L.M. Montgomery

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A compilation of 80 short stories by the author of “Anne of Green Gables” that were not previously published in a book or in one of Project Gutenberg’s short stories collections for this author. The subjects range from children’s stories, to romance, humor, and ghost stories. These short stories were published in various magazines from the years 1896 to 1924. Some of these stories were adapted by L.M. Montgomery into chapters of her later novels. The story “Una of the Garden” was transformed into the novel “Kilmeny of the Orchard”. (Summary by Maria Therese) [chương_files]

Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

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“No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness… Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the ‘anting-anting’, at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection…” – Summary from the Foreword [chương_files]

Bet and Other Stories

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Thirteen short stories by the master. Summary by david wales [chương_files]