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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Do you recall your parents saying "Wise Up?". This is the BEST way to increase your intellect, grow your vocabulary, and broaden your view of history and culture. Take the "wise up!" challenge and listen to any 5 of these narrated stories and give your brain a treat! (It works for all ages, including TV-bound seniors). Enjoy listening to well-narrated tales from writers like Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Wharton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Hans

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31:19

THE MYSTERY OF HUNTER'S LODGE by AGATHA CHRISTIE'S...

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/05/14

Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian.. I was moved by that, and left for a year to study at the Sarbonne, at which time I was reminded that Poirot's character was born in lived as a child in in Portugal, and often took trips with his father to Moscowbefore the fall of the Romanovs-so I had to spend some time there as well. then it was back to the states to study the shows on PBS with

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LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST by FRANK STOCKTON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/05/11

Frank Stockton was best known for his humurous children's stories and later "fairy tales for adults" in which he pokes fun at our human capacity for misundesrstanding while building a very credible love story. He wrote the story in the mid 19th century and didnt live long enough to enjoy seeing it beceome a movie in 1936 starring Carole Lombard and Caesar Romero. Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com

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JEEVES TAKES CHARGE by P.G. WODEHOUSE

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2025/05/07

Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in the United States in November 1916, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in April 1923. The story was also included in the 1925 collection Carry On, Jeeves.[1] Bertie meets Jeeves for the first time in this story. Florence Craye, Bertie's fiancée, wants him to destroy his uncle's scandalous memoirs.

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34:51

AN O.HENRY DOUBLE-HEADER TOBIN'S PALM and THE...

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2025/05/04

Tobin's Palm From O' Henry's 'The Four Million': Two young sons of Ireland , John and Daniel (Tobin) head for Coney Island Amusement Park in order that good palm John can relieve Daniel of his worries over his girlfriend's not having arrived yet from County Sligo with his money. It's been three moneths and no sign of her. He consults a fortune teller who tells him things are not going his way and that he will soon see a pale girl, a dark man, and a man with a crooked nose who ( we can assume) holds

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28:07

FAREWELL and FASCINATION by GUY DE MAUPASSANT

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/04/30

Two similar stories by Maupassant explore the memories of older men with regard to the woman whom they just can't forget....] for music credit: Midnight in Paris Music by Jean-Paul Verpeaux from Pixabay New sponsor spot time markers: Sponsor Message intro 12:51 Show re-entry: 12:54 Visit us at www.bestof1001stories.com

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AHEAD OF SCHEDULE by P.G. WODEHOUSE

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2025/04/27

get ready for another "Jeeves" style adventure- this time with the clueless Rollo and his excellent butler and advisor Wilson. It seems Rollo is quite caught up with a young lady but he has his own "system" for getting the final "yes" from her and doesn't need advice. Join our email list at 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales podcast and browse our new categories under "episodes". www.bestof1001stories.com

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42:35

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE and THE ALCHEMIST H.P. LOVECRAFT

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/04/23

A tourist gets lost in Mammoth Cave and runs into a very scary situation in 'The Beast In The Cave' In 'The Alchemist' a curse haunts an old family for 6 hundred years, killing each male member of the family at age 32. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com by going to 1001 Classic Short Storiers and tapping on "Episodes"- then look for the "categories" that drop down.. Wow! Makes searching easy!

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32:15

THE FORTUNE TELLER by MACHADO DE ASSIS

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/04/20

tThis story by award-winning Brazilian writer Machado de Assis delves into infidelity and jealousy in a small town in Brazil.The characters are well- developed and the action is non-stop. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com for more great stories.

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ULYSSES AND THE CYCLOPS and CAESAR CROSSES THE RUBICON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/04/16

'Ulysses and the Cyclops'-Adaped by Andrew Lang from the Greek classic 'Homer', this story places Ulysses in the hero's seat as he and his men are trapped on an island occupied by one-eyed giants called Cyclops- and they have a nasty penchant for eating sailors and roasting their remains. Ulysses is known for his "McGuyver" like abilites to find smart ways out of trouble- and he gets busy fast. Caesar Crosses The Rubicon'.. All of us have had to make serious decisions- and there is always one

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HOP FROG AND TRIPETTA by EDGAR ALLAN POE

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2025/04/13

Edgar Allan Poe wasn't just known for horror- he also had a sense of humor and a deep sense of justice for those who had been wronged. In this story, a French king who likes to play extravagent jokes on his guests decides to use his two dwarfs, which had been captured and sent to him by one of his generals, as the evenings' entertainment. The man dwarf, HopFrog, had earned that name from the King due to his crippled leg which kept him from standing up straight, and causing him to hop using his

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31:29

HELPING FREDDY by P.G.WODEHOUSE

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2025/04/09

A young man living off a rich Aunt's endowment decices to take a few weeks off with pals and head for the nearby lake looking for peace and quiet. He is soon wrapped up in trying to get his shy friend hooked up while at the same time being stuck with a fat toddler whose parents have been abandoning him to the mercies of lake vacationers due to a measles outbreak in their rental house. Check out our new search by category features at www.bestof1001stories.comtoday!

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THE MARK OF THE BEAST by RUDYARD KIPLING

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2025/04/06

Two cultures collide when a group of British overseers meet for a regional planning session in India's outback, have too much to drink, and one of them defaces a statue outside a temple. The offender is almost immediately confronted by a naked leper called Silver Man who leaves a bite mark on his chest- causing a physiological change in the coming hours that will rock their non-believing world. Check out our constantly improving website at https://bestof1001stories.com!

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20:24

NOT ACCORDING TO THE CODE by ROBERT BARR

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2025/04/02

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THE SONG OF THE FLYING FISH A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY...

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2025/03/30

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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/03/30

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THE THREE DAY BLOW by ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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2025/03/26

In 1925 Hemingway's collection of his first short stories appeared as In Our Time, and included the cryptic The Three Day Blow. He begins with a memory of WWI, then gives us a dialogue between Nick Adams (Hemingway's alter -ego in his early stories) and a friend as they spend a few days drinking at his friend's fathers lodge. The theme is baically to portray a 'lost generation' of young men after the war who had no desire to do much with their lives, including getting married and raising children

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MY UNWILLING NEIGHBOR by FRANK STOCKTON

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/03/23

A young man builds a home and vineyard at the top of a gentle slope in Virginia's Blue ridge Mountains only to find his home sliding downhill in a heavy rainstorm. Enjoy all of our 1001 collection at www.bestof1001stories.com Support our efforts to tell history the way it really happened by chipping in a little every month at www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Follow us a facebook.com/1001heroes! Thanks Other 1001 Podcasts: Found Everywhere 1001 Sherlodck Holmes Stories & the Best of Arthur

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MY KINSMAN,MAJOR MOLINEUX by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

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2025/03/19

A young man from the country travels to Boston (during the days when the British soldiers were housed there) seeking his relative Major Molineux, who had promised the young man a chance to rise up in the world should he ever travel there after his schooling. The reception he receives with every inquiry is rude, even threatening, and he ventures to find out why.

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LEAVE IT TO JEEVES by P.G.WODEHOUSE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales ·

2025/03/16

Bertie gort himself in realtrouble this time- he's engaged. Only Jeeves knows what to do.

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32:01

THE WIND by RAY BRADBURY

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2025/03/09

A man of sciencewho has traveled the world searching for the source of the evil winds that destroy mankind finds himself pursued by them. He locks hilmself in his house in an effort to beat them.....

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