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Sherwood Anderson – The New Englander
Her name was Elsie Leander and her girlhood was spent on her father’s farm in Vermont. For several generations the…
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Sherwood Anderson – The Other Woman
While The Other Woman is an interesting read standing alone as a completed isolated short story, it becomes even more interesting when…
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Sherwood Anderson – Unlighted Lamps
Mary Cochran went out of the rooms where she lived with her father, Doctor Lester Cochran, at seven o’clock on…
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Sherwood Anderson – War
The story came to me from a woman met on a train. The car was crowded and I took the…
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Hans Christian Andersen – What The Old Man Does Is Always Right
I WILL tell you a story that was told me when I was a little boy. Every time I thought…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – A Rivermouth Romance
A Rivermouth Romance was published in the anthology, Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (1903). “If you’re a married man, all I have…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Marjorie Daw
Majorie Daw is an epistolary story that caused quite a sensation after its publication in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1873 for its…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Miss Mehetabel’s Son
A MAN with a passion for bric-à-brac is always stumbling over antique bronzes, intaglios, mosaics, and daggers of the time…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Cruise of the Dolphin
(1 An episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, the narrator being Tom Bailey, the hero of the tale.)…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True
“I’m so tired of Christmas I wish there never would be another one!” exclaimed a discontented-looking little girl, as she…
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