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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Henry Lawson

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Robert Barr

1001 Classic Short Stories Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Our narrator tells a great fishing story whicfh begins at the home of an old local fisherman with two beautiful daughters and continues with a battle of wits between he and a huge trout followed by some good country advice.

A marrried couple who for years has ben enjoying gifts from a generous uncle they had never met finally get the chance to meet him when he cables that he is traveling to see them and stay for awhile. As you migt expect the story has a surprise ending.

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Jack London

A young man who has just lost his father and needs to support his mother tries to find work but no one, inluding his own uncle, will hire him due to his deceased father's bad reputation as a shirker. Finally a local farmer offers the young man a job...

Two brothers who own a successful clock/watch shop in Paris are surprised when a disreputable looking man enters the shop- and they both believe has has come to case the shop before robbing it. They contact the police, and the police question...

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Willa Cather

"The Stranger" by Ambrose Bierce: A group of men traveling in the old west meet a strange man at their campfire- a man who has an even stranger story. We also include a background on the incredible life of Ambrose Bierce, from his Civil War experience...

In this story Merlin is no longer a force but he is able to make a request to Vivien to save King Arthur's life.  Arthur and a fellow knight become lost after a deer hunt and they are lured onto a sailing ship by Morgana La Fay's magic- and...

1001 Classic Short Stories Stories by Howard Pyle

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Zane Grey

Father brown shares a story with his friend Flambeau about a visit the Father had made to a detective's office in Chicago while he was working in the US.  The detective was convinced to a new fangled pulse reader, serving as a lie detector, could...

Many years ago, around 1900, social customes were very different from what they are today. if a young man wanted to make a formal call on a young lady, the custom of the day wasd to approach the young lady's house and present a card of introduction....

King Arthur's evil sister Queen Morgana LaFay plans a way to get Merlin out of the way of Arthur by using her young protoge Vivien to charm Merlin into teaching her all his magic. Enjoy 'Tarzan the Untamed' now at 1001 Stories For the Road Podcast and...

1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales Stories by Jack London

A 10 year-old boy growing up in a gold mining area discovers the stash of a pair of notorious thieves and adventure follows...

Australia owes a debt of gratitude to Banjo Paterson (and Henry Lawson) for their great short stories that chronicled the quirky and unique characters and places of Australia in its early days.  These three short stories- His Masterpeice, Sitting...

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by G.K. Chesterton

1001 Classic Short Stories Father Brown Mystery

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by Ray Bradbury

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Stories by O.Henry

1001 Classic Short Stories & tales Stories by Robert Barr