BEST OF (#68 OF 574) THE LOVE LETTERS OF SMITH H.C. BUNNER
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A lonely seamstress living on the top floor of a high rise tenement building in 1900's New York city tries to cope with a male neighbor who positions a tankard of porter (beer) on her window sill each day.
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BETWEEN ROUNDS by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
1905 as seen through the windows of Mrs. Murphy's boarding house by O.Henry. A lady screams that her six year old Mikey is missing. The McCasky's are upstairs throwing kitchenware at each other. Others are sitting on the porch steps oblivious to it all. And the cop walking his beat knows better than to interfere with any of it.
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE FINAL PROBLEM A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE (2025)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
In this story Dr. Watson narrates a tragedy involving Holmes as it appears Holmes has been killed by his mortal enemy, Dr Moriarty, on the eve of a trial that would convict Moriarty and his henchmen of a number of crimes. NOTE 2025 we ARE SEEKING A MALE VOICE FOR NeW ADVENTURE NOVEL PODCAST. Contact me at [email protected] A NOTE TO ALL APPLE LISTENERS WORLDWIDE- WE NEED YOUR REVIEWS AND NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS- SO TAKE SOME TIME OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO TO GET OTHERS TO SUBSCRIBE AND SEND REVIEWS! THANK YOU. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE A BUSINESS SERVICE OR...
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EXTRICATING YOUNG GUSSIE A BERTIE WOOSTER/JEEVES STORY FROM P.G. WODEHOUSE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
"Extricating Young Gussie" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published in the United States in the 18 September 1915 issue of The Saturday Evening Post and in the United Kingdom in the January 1916 edition of The Strand Magazine.[1] It was included in the collection The Man with Two Left Feet (1917).[2] The story features the first appearance of two of Wodehouse's most popular and enduring characters, the impeccable valet Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster, though there are some differences between this story and later stories in which they appear....
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A QUESTION OF POSSESSION by ANDY ADAMS
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Another great western short story by cowboy author Andy Adams telling of a rancher who had worked for years to build a good ranch with his own brand of horses- who suddenly has an old judgement come up against him- forcing the local sheriff to take horses as collateral. In Texas, where this story happens, justice often triumphed over the law- and this was a good example. Lawmen had to know when to work by the letter of the law and when not to.
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BEST OF (#67 of 572) THE CHASE from MOBY DICK by HERMAN MELVILLE (EARLY HOLIDAY RELEASE)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
An excerpt from Herman Melville's blockbuster adventure 'Moby Dick' describes a portion of Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of the white whale which had nearly cost him his life in a previous hunt.
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THE OLIVE by ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A young man taking a two week leave from business along the Mediterranean coast is the lucky recipient of an olive which has fallen off a young woman's table to come to rest at his feet. He is interrupted in mid morning by a knock on his hotel room door.
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BEST OF (#68 of 573) THE MILLION DOLLAR BOND ROBBERY AGATHA CHRISTIE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A million dollars worth of nonds disappear from under a young man's nose and now he's being held accountable- a great Poirot mystery short story from Agatha Christie
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
One of Arthur Conan Doyle's personal top 12 favorites, this story has Holmes defusing an International incident by discovering the location of a damaging letter.
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BEST OF (#66 of 571) HIGH WATER MARK by BRET HARTE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
A mother and her baby, alone in a small cabin on a river, face a life-threatening situation when a storm appears and the river rises, forcing her to abandon the cabin and cling to a floating tree for life.
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The story was written as a sequel to “The Ice Palace,” and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observation is paid to Powell’s story, draws in the reader. The opening line – “Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean”- labels the protagonist immediately, and as a character he remains within the stereotype Fitzgerald indicates, though he almost manages to break free.
The history of Powell’s life presents a tale of a family fallen on hard times. Powell is humiliated by the whisperings of the social set and chooses notoriety over civility. He fights for his country aged eighteen and returns at twenty-one with ill-fitting, unfashionable clothes which symbolize how he does not “fit” in society.
Powell contrasts with the attractive and dynamic Clark Darrow. He is unsure of whether to go to the party Darrow invites him to, but Nancy Lamar, with her “mouth like a remembered kiss,” entrances him. The simile is a romantic one, as although Powell has always known Nancy, she has never been attainable to him.
Its a small town story with all its class divides and Fitzgerald builds some very believable caracters around which his story evolves.