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LitReading - Classic Short Stories

Short Storyverses

Litreading delivers classic short stories—carefully selected, beautifully narrated, and updated every week.From Poe to Twain, O. Henry to Wharton, each episode presents a complete tale in a clean, immersive performance lasting anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. These timeless stories are read with clarity, warmth, and just enough character to bring them fully to life.Litreading is part ofShort Storyverses(shortstoryverses.com), a growing collection of podcasts devoted to exceptional

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12:15

The Looking Glass by Anton Chekov

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/19

While forward to the future we often forget the darkness that is part of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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39:48

Love in the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/19

A young man's longing for love is briefly fulfilled on one moonlight evening on the sea off the coast of Cannes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:50

Mr. Know-All by W. Somerset Maugham

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/14

Welcome aboard an early 20th Century trans-pacific ocean liner where one is likely to be stuck for weeks with any number of unusual characters. Of course, we are likely to put a great deal of stock in first impressions when it often pays to wait to get to know someone.Never a darling of the critics, W. Someset Maugham (the W is for William) was a prolific author and playwright. He was best known for his short stories many of which were fictional global travelogues. Because so many of his works were

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15:36

The Whirligig of Life by O. Henry

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/12

A rural mountain couple struggle with their differences, anger, and overpowering love for each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:23

The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/09

So far, all of our public domain stories were created prior to 1925. However, there are a few newer tales that are no longer copyright protected. From one of the world’s best science fiction writer’s comes a tale of idioms and aliens.Essentially, this story is a long dad joke. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I, a dad, did.Even if you don’t know his name, you know the work of Philip K. Dick. Several of his books and stories have been adapted into movies and Tv shows like: Total Recall, Minority

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21:26

Second Best by D.H. Lawrence

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/06

A new love springs from the conversations of two sisters and a couple of moles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:06

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/02

Grief and heartbreak are the typical reactions to the loss of a loved one, but other emotions may lurk within. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:42

The Fable of the Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not...

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/04/01

When a preacher failed to stir the emotions of his congregants he resorts to the time tested tradition of embellishment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:55

After Twenty Years by O. Henry

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/29

Twenty years after heading west to find his fortunes a man returns to meet a long lost friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:23

The Aged, Aged Man by Lewis Carroll

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/26

I have always loved the work of Lewis Carroll. In fact, Litreading began with my rendition of Carroll’s nonsense poem Jabberwocky. His only foray into shorter works came in the form of poetry, much of which found its way into his Alice books.This piece was written a bit differently earlier and changed when added to the book, “Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass.”This nonsense verse is said to be a parody of a poem by Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence.Lewis Carroll was the pen name and

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16:02

The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/24

Grief part of the human condition and we cope with it varies from person to person. When two old men discuss the loss of family members several years after World War I, it is a fly that help illustrate both life’s constant struggles and fragility.The Fly is considered one of Catherine Mansfield’s greatest works because it is personal. Mansfield lost her brother in a training demonstration during World War I.One of the great modernist writers of the early 20th century, Mansfield was both a

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14:47

Misery by Anton Chekhov

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/21

Loneliness is painful enough under normal circumstances, but social rejection in the face of a personal crisis can be devastating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

A Telephonic Conversation by Mark Twain

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/17

This is more a satirical essay than an actual short story, but it makes me smile. The first telephone was demonstrated at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. By 1880, many wealthier families were using the new communication device regularly and one of the 19th century’s best known authors and satirists observed some anecdotal differences in the way men and women communicate.Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain is one of the most famous American authors of all time. This story was

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13:15

A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/15

Money has the power to take us away, if only temporarily, from the due routines of life. However, there is always a price to pay for our fiscal flights of fancy and real life eventually hoists its humdrum head again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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48:42

The Other Two by Edith Wharton

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/10

We are complex creatures and grow more so with time. Every relationship adds or subtracts from who we are. No relationship is more life changing than marriage and for a woman thrice married in pre-suffrage America the stigma of mutual divorce seems insurmountable until her third husband’s comes to a startling revelation.Best known for her novels, Edith Wharton was a prolific writer of short stories. Growing up among New York’s upper class, she created realistic portrayals of America’s Gilded Age

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18:47

The Good and the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/06

In the 19th Century particularly, good boys are supposed to enjoy the fruits of the righteousness, and bad boys were destined for eternal damnation, at least according to Sunday School books, but according to Mark Twain, life often contradicted expectation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:19

The Cactus by O. Henry

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/04

Pride does seem to go before a fall… In this very short story a young man’s life unravels thanks to a small vanity-induced dissimulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:35

The Man in the Brown Coat by Sherwood Anderson

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/03/01

This special short, short story centers on a different kind of haunting, not from without, but from within. The darkness that comes from a profound loneliness that quietly haunts the souls of many. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:05

Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Norris

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/28

Happiness has always been elusive, usually found in unexpected places and, often, in the wake of the worst life eventsIn this heart-warming story, an affluent couple discovers what is truly important in life in the wake of both a fiscal and physical tragedy.Kathleen Norris was, for a time, the highest paid female writer in early 20th-century America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:06

Solid Objects by Virginia Wolff

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/24

Virginia Wolff had a talent for taking mundane observations and weaving them into enchanting tales. Something a normal as watching two men on an ordinary a day at the beach became an impassioned and poignant story in her hands.Born to an upstanding and literary Victorian family, Virginia Wolff suffered from serious psychological issues which may have been part of the genius behind her introspective and emotional powerful writing. She and her husband founded the famous British publishing house

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