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’s Short Story Collection 050: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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’s Short Story Collection 012: a collection of 11 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 009: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic results. The moral of the story is that physical possessions, however valuable they may be, are of little value in the grand scheme of things. The true unselfish love that the characters, Jim and Della, share is greater than their possessions. O. Henry ends the story by clarifying the metaphor between the characters in the story, Della and James (or Jim), and the Biblical Magi. The Gift of the Magi features O. Henry's characteristic twist ending and use of flowery diction. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia.org)...

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This is a collection of short stories written by the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with the help of the author's help. Assistance has also been given by the Rev. E. J. Thompson, Panna Lal Basu, Prabhat Kumar Mukerjii, and the Sister Nivedita.(Summary by sidhu177)...

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’s Short Story Collection 044: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 011: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 013: a collection of 11 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 010: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members.

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A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. The Dead is taken from Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners . (summary by Iremonger)...

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Katherine Mansfield was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. This a ninety minute story from her collection of The Garden Party.

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’s Short Story Collection 014: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of members.

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A collection of short stories on a variety of subjects, by one of Australia’s premiere female writers.

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Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggle?????s of nature. Nature generally wins in the end. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of members, including stories by Poul Anderson, Aphra Behn, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Wilbur D. Nesbit....

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Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine in the first of these four special short stories. They are special to me because of their insight into the deep courage and faith of 'ordinary' people, people like most of us. And of course our failings and frailties and sometimes, the prince does not marry the right person. The other stories are A Bush League Hero, What she Wore and The Man Who Came Back. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)...

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