This is a story about an old fisherman who is on somewhat of an unlucky streak. The only other fisherman who still believes in him is a young boy who has helped him fish in the past. The boy often...
During the Greek Dark Age, poets called bards traveled to different poli. The bards told stories in the form of long poems called epics. People would often pay to hear the bards describe stories of...

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HUCKLEBERRY FINN Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) By Mark Twain CHAPTER I. YOU don't know about me without you have...
The Open Window by Saki “My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; “in the meantime you must try and put up with me.” Framton Nuttel endeavoured...

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Welcome to Nancy Drew Book Reviews! Today, I'm reviewing Nancy Drew Notebooks #23, Alien in the Classroom. It was first published in March, 1998. It contains eight illustrations by Anthony Accardo....
Whilst species with longer lives may spend days in bed, days in rages, days in tears, This one day is all you have to make a difference. And now, as his legs and head passed through his arms with...

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The Ambitious Guest by Nathaniel Hawthorne Recording by Martin Reyto One September night, a family had gathered round their hearth, and piled it high with the drift-wood of mountain streams, the dry...
The Star by H. G. Wells Recording by Jon Siegrist It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet...

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The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe Some years ago I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C., to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship _Independence_, Captain Hardy. We were to sail on the...