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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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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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10:45

Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/16

What should we do, when should we do it, and whose direction should we take? Those three questions have plagued humanity throughout time. Where can the answers be found or are they unanswerable? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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23:29

In a Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/12

What is truth? How does our perception color the facts as we observe them. Those differences how we see the world complicates this Japanese murder investigation in this renowned short story.This profound modernist fable has echoed for almost a century. Also called "In a Bamboo Grove," this 1929 short story was inspiration for the critically acclaimed 1950 Japanese film, "Rashomon." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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57:12

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/11

Would it be better to start life as an old man and end it as an infant? That was the question posed by Mark Twain that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write his short story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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27:46

The Great American Pie Company by Ellis Parker Butler

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/09

People dream of success. Those ambitions can often be prodigious. Rarely, however, do our future business strategies develop as quickly as do those in this story that encapsulates the economic concerns of the early 20th Century.For a full-time banker and part-time author Ellis Parker Butler was prolific writing more than 2,000 stories that were published in well over 200 magazines in the early 20th Century. His most famous story is "Pigs is Pigs" which a narrated in 2019. Learn more about your ad

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24:35

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/06

Prepare to be moved by one of the most unusual short stories ever written, which tells a chilling tale of the simple life and complex death of a slave-owning planter in Union-occupied Alabama during the Civil War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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48:24

The Million Pound Bank Note

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/04

This classic Mark Twain tale is a witty commentary on poverty and wealth. There is much of Twain’s personal circumstance reflected in the story, as Twain had himself recently gone from riches to bankruptcy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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22:33

The Way the World Is by Zona Gale

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/02/02

Falling in love is one of humanities most common events and biggest mysteries. What is it that ignites one person's passion for another. This poignant tale of surprisingly falling for someone was penned by the first woman playwright to win a Pulitzer Prize.A brilliant author author of novels, short stories and plays, Zona Gale was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prie for Drama for the stage adaptation of her novel, Miss Lulu Bett. She sold her first story at age 16 for $3. Learn more about your ad

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15:15

The Interlopers by Saki

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2021/01/20

A long-running feud leads two men to face each other and the ravages of nature in this powerful classic story by one the best short story authors of all time.One of listeners most requested authors is Saki, the pen name of British write H.H. Munro.His incredible short stories run the gamut from biting satire to shockingly macabre.At age 43, Munro insisted on enlisting as a mere trooper to fight for the British in World War One and was killed by a German sniper in 1916. Learn more about your ad

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12:58

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog by O. Henry

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2020/08/05

I am a big fan of dogs and am fascinated with their non-verbal communication skills. I also enjoy dog stories and the writing of O. Henry, so what could be better to end season two of Litreading than a dog story written by O. Henry. Each season of Litreading stretches from fall until mid-summer, giving me time for a family hiatus. In this one, I’m going to be moving to a new home in western Virginia, where I am also building a new studio. I have some big plans for season three of Litreading, do come

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7:23

My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2020/07/07

We all have our particular foibles and phobias. Today’s humorous short story focuses on one whose greatest fear is of banks. Would that be ripiaphobia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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28:35

Jimmy Rose by Herman Melville

LitReading - Classic Short Stories ·

2020/06/28

Life can deal any of us some terrible blows. In this semi-auto biographical tale we explore the life of a once wealthy merchant, Jimmy Rose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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