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  • The Girl and the Photograph–a Classic Short Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery

    The Girl and the Photograph–a Classic Short Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
    2025/09/16
    A fleeting glimpse in the pines, a photograph stolen from a friend’s mantel, and a correspondence born from mistaken identity—The Girl and the Photograph by Lucy Maud Montgomery is no simple tale of memory. It’s about the way chance, error, and destiny conspire to test a heart’s fidelity. What begins as a love nurtured by letters and a photograph turns into a crisis of identity, and then, at the last moment, a revelation that love had been waiting patiently all along. This isn’t just about remembering a face—it’s about recognizing a soul when it finally stands before you.

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    23 分
  • A Country Cottage-a Classic Short Story by Anton Chekhov

    A Country Cottage-a Classic Short Story by Anton Chekhov
    2025/09/15
    Life has a nasty habit of throwing us curves that we can either cause us long-term misery or force us to make the best of a bad situation as illustrated in this very short tale.

    Anton Chekhov was undoubtedly brilliant. A physician by trade, his premier talent was writing. Chekhov had a unparalleled gift for understanding the depths of human emotions and sharing them first through his short stories and later, his plays. Chekhov once said “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.”

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    6 分
  • The Mark on the Wall - a Classic Short Story by Virginia Woolf

    The Mark on the Wall - a Classic Short Story by Virginia Woolf
    2025/09/14
    Virginia Woolf demonstrates how simply focusing on one thing has the power to unleash torrents of thoughts and memories.

    Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, British author Virginia Woolf went on to become an icon of modern 20th century literature.

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    21 分
  • The Romance of a Busy Broker - a Classic Short Story by O. Henry

    The Romance of a Busy Broker - a Classic Short Story by O. Henry
    2025/09/13
    There are those for whom work becomes an obsession to the detriment of their personal lives. The businessman in our next story gives new meaning to the modern term “workaholic.”
    William Henry Porter, better known as O. Henry led a short albeit intriguing life. Before he died in New York City in 1910 at age 47, Porter was a pharmacist, sheep ranch hand, draftsman, banker, and prolific author of short stories. Oh, and he was also a convicted embezzler who served time in federal prison.

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    10 分
  • The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm - a Classic Short Story by Mark Twain

    The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm - a Classic Short Story by Mark Twain
    2025/09/12
    We aren't the first generation to be frustrated by advancing technology. More than a century ago, new fangled products were making people crazy like this gentleman who supposedly related our next hilarious tale Mark Twain.

    Mark Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) had an unmatched knack for taking a normal story and turning it into a hilariously funny tall tale.

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    17 分
  • The Widow's Cruise–a Classic Short Story by Frank Stockton

    The Widow's Cruise–a Classic Short Story by Frank Stockton
    2025/09/11
    We have been sharing stories with each other since the beginning of time. On occasion these tales have been known to grow a bit tall, as was the case when four elderly seamen spent an evening with a widow sharing a variety of yarns each one wilder than the next. Then the wood adds a tale of her own.

    Frank Stockton was a 19th century author and humorist with an uncanny knack for poking fun a human failings. One of his most famous stories was "The Lady or the Tiger."

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    30 分
  • Desiree's Baby–a Classic Short Story by Kate Chopin

    Desiree's Baby–a Classic Short Story by Kate Chopin
    2025/09/11
    Racism has always been an ugly part of the human condition. Yet, the horrors of racism in America are most undeniably illustrated by the treatment of African-Americans, particularly in the South. Here is just a small example of the pain caused by racial hatred in antebellum Louisiana.

    I have presented the story exactly as written, as the author, Kate Chopin, lived during this terrible period in US history. Just five years after the end of the Civil War, Chopin married a French-American and lived with him for more than a decade in Louisiana. While Chopin’s brilliant writing is as powerful today as it was more than a century ago, it, like so many other tales of the time, focused on the suffering of white characters, ignoring the true cruelty suffered by their slaves.

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    15 分
  • Forecast: Scary Story Season Coming Soon on Litreading

    Forecast: Scary Story Season Coming Soon on Litreading
    2025/09/10
    This October, Litreading unlocks the crypt with Scary Season Stories—a chilling collection of timeless tales that whisper through the centuries. These aren’t slasher screams or jump-scares… they’re the kind of stories that linger—in your mind, in your dreams, and in the dark corners of quiet rooms. From Poe to M.R. James, classic horror returns to haunt a new generation. No tricks. Just trembling.

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    1 分