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∞ Virginia Woolf ← [1882 – 1941]
◊ Read & listen to «The Haunted House» ↓
◊ ‘The End’ [Flush’s biography]
• Read the last of the stories compiled by Gerald Durrell in his 1990 anthology «Best Dog Stories»
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O Henry + Ambrose Bierce + Mark Twain ¤ O Henry [1862 – 1910]
William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O. Henry, wrote mostly about ordinary people going about the daily adventure of living. Not infrequently, his stories involve coincidences or unexpected twists that result in surprise endings like that in “The Gift of the […]
1924 – 1984 Capote’s first short story is a haunting account of a widow’s descent into madness courtesy of a precocious child named Miriam.
Truman Capote was just eighteen-years old when Mademoiselle magazine published his first short story, «Miriam,» in 1945. Looking back on his career, Capote claimed to have enjoyed his earlier […]
[1883 – 1963]
← The Use of Force
A physician is summoned to make a house call on a family with whom he has had no prior contact. He quickly sizes up the situation: the household is poor but clean; the patient is a female child whose parents are nervously concerned, […]
♦ Man From The South ⇐ 1916 – 1990
The narrator of this famous story is never named, but I always presumed him to be an […]
[1904-1991]
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A 1954 short story about teenagers destroying a house. The story is ironic—showing how destruction is allegedly a form of creation.
Set in the mid-1950s, it is about a boys’ gang named the «Wormsley Common Gang», after the place […]
¤ James Joyce [1882 – 1941]
‘The Dead’ [«DUBLINERS»] – Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death.
At 15–16,000 words this story, closing the short-story cycle ‘Dubliners’, has also been classified as a novella. […]
Pseudonym of Michael O’Donovan [1903-1966], playwright, novelist, and short-story writer
⇒Interview⇐[1957]
¤ «First Confession» ⇓
All the trouble began when my grandfather died and my grand-mother – my father’s mother – came to live with us. Relations in the one house are a […]
[1847 – 1912]
• Click pic for Bram Stoker‘s book →
•→ Listen ←
•→ http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks ⇐
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Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Murnau‘s chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker’s Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror […]
[1859-1930]
♦ ◊ ♦ ◊ Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four ↓
At the outset of the novel Doctor Watson states that he has been watching Holmes takes cocaine three times a day for many months. Watson’s reluctance to oppose Holmes is finally overcome and he confronts his friend […]
Washington Irving [1783 – 1859] ¤ Rip van Winkle
This Washington Irving short-story, published in 1819, is about a man (Rip Van Winkle) who escapes from his wife’s complaining and nagging by going off into the mountains. While wandering about he meets a strange man carrying a cask of liquor who leads him to […]
•→ Short stories by Charles Dickens ⇐ ¤ A House To Let
«A House to Let» is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens’ Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a […]
Mary Shelley [1797 – 1851]
How do you do? Mr. Carl Laemmle feels it would be a little unkind to present this picture without just a word of friendly warning. We are about to unfold the story of Frankenstein. A man of science, who sought to create a man after his own […]
Adrian Albert Mole is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by English author Sue Townsend (1946-2014). The character first appeared (as Nigel) in a BBC Radio 4 play in 1982. The books are written in the form of a diary, with some additional content such as correspondence. The […]
¤ Edward Lear [1812-1888] There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, «It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard.»
•→ http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/learwk.html
∇ «The Duck and the Kangaroo» […]
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” [1854 – 1900] “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” ♥ The Happy Prince ←
There is a statue of a gold prince in the middle of a really unhappy town. Then a swallow comes to sit on the statues plinth. Then the swallow sees the happy […]
• There’s this amazing site on the Net . . . ⇒
It offers a hell of a lot of readers for the wee ones. The titles have been arranged in three categories: young children, older children & young adults. They’re all lushly illustrated and some of them include audio support. […]
Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables⇐. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.
¤ Watch & […]
These fanciful, sometimes brutal tales, revel in the art of storytelling. The underlying suggestion of the Arabian Nights is that a fantastically precious jewel exists which, when it comes into contact with people, actually changes them. The jewel is the magnificently powerful art of story. There may not be any […]
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