20/09/2024
Abaft The Funnel
“Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas.” Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page) [chương_files]
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20/09/2024
Hotel D’Angleterre And Other Stories
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 – 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. Never married, her health was precarious, preventing her from writing more, though she wished to. She died of tuberculosis, as did her brother. (Summary by David Wales) [chương_files]
20/09/2024
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface “These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work. If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in these common blossoms, their old friend will not have made her Garland in vain. L.M. ALCOTT.” The stories are An Ivy Spray & Ladies Slippers; Pansies; Water-Lilies and Mountain-Laurel & Maiden-Hair. They are all between 40 minutes and 55 minutes finished audio so they are not short but all four are typical stories from the talented pen of Miss Alcott. – Summary by Phil Chenevert and the author [chương_files]
20/09/2024
John Sherman and Dhoya
In 1891, Yeats published “John Sherman”, a novella, and “Dhoya”, a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. (Summary by Wikipedia) [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi
Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the great graf Leo Tolstoy and faithfully translated by Mrs. R. S. Townsend. – Summary by philip a chenevert [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer’s Tales as A Dreamer’s Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany’s invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna and Time and the Gods. One of the stories, “The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth,” was afterwards (1910) published by itself as a separate book. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand And One Nights or Canterbury Tales. Kai Lung is an ancient Chinese storyteller who tells stories to postpone his criminal conviction in the court of a Mandarin. (david wales) [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Sportsman’s Sketches
A Sportsman’s Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter’s Album) was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition. He wrote this collection of short stories based on his own observations while hunting at his mother’s estate at Spasskoye, where he learned of the abuse of the peasants and the injustices of the Russian system that constrained them. The frequent abuse of Turgenev by his mother certainly had an effect on this work. The stories were first published in The Contemporary with each story separate before appearing in 1852 in book form. He was about to give up writing when the first story, “Khor and Kalinich,” was well received. This work is part of the Russian realist tradition in that the narrator is usually an uncommitted observer of the people he meets. – Summary by Wikipedia [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Dozen Ways of Love
This is a collection of (each in their own way) romantic short stories by Lily Dougall. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
20/09/2024
Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories
An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics including war, romance, humor and even fishing. The title short story, “The Maker of Moons,” is considered to be one of Chamber’s greatest weird horror tales and was one of H.P. Lovecraft’s favorite stories by the author. (Summary by Kadath) [chương_files]