1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

War- A cavalry scout comes upon a deserted farmhouse where violence has recently taken place and turns down the opportunity to shoot an enemy soldier who is filling his canteen...

Jan The Unrepentant- A group of prospectors in Alaska go half mad when one shoots another in the neck and they decide its time for him to hang-but hanging Jan will be no easy task.

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A Tiny Little Thing- A father teaches a little girl the importantace of all lives big or small

Androcles & The Lion- A slave turned gladiator befriends a lion when they share a cave and later the favor is returned in a big way

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Two classic morality tales which have been shared for way over a hundred years from Hans Christian Anderson.

 The Emperor's New Clothes:  The ruler of a kingdom is duped by a pair of conmen pretending to be weavers who convince the emperor that only the ignorant, or those unfit for their jobs, fail to see the fine clothes they will make for the king. The word gets around and when the king dons the clothes, he and everyone else can see that he is standing in his underwear, but no one has the moral courage to tell the king that he is standing with very little on. All are afraid they will be thought ignorant or unfit to hold their jobs.

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A young woman of obvious class is enjoying a week's stay and an escape from the summer heat at a posh New York City Hotel when she meets a debonair young man who has similar interests.

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This is one of best Father Brown stories I have had the pleasure to share. Its a great story that rings true- a story of a military leader whose legend was perhaps not as well deserved as all his admirers believed.  

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Ken Ward, after talking to his coach not long after the great potato fight, is talked into walking over to the Sophmore dormirories to aplogize to the varsity basball captain, Dale- but Dale has other plans, and Ken and the coach find themselves trapped with no way out. 

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This story was a great find and is still one of our best performing episodes. Australian writer Henry Lawson's dramatic tale told by a young husband who recalls hard times when he and his wife were raising a three year old in the Australian bush in the days just after the gold rush.

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The start of another great series of baseball short stories (the last one was "The Red-Headed Outfield)- this one being"The Young Pitcher'- the storyof a very young man who attends a large college as a freshman and soon learns what hazing is all about. His dream of playing baseball for that college seems to end when he punches the varsity captain of the baseball team during a rough hazing. In true Zane Grey style- this is a fast-moving story that will bring you in and keep you around for more. 

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Sir Pelias, one of King Arthur's top knights, makes a promise to Lady Guinevere that he will go on a mission to defend her honor, and leaves her company unarmed, promising he will capture another knight's armor and return with great deeds accomplished.

In part two the travelers are growing more and more resentful of Boule de Suif as she continues to say no to the German officer- and they concoct devious ways to try to convince her that it is her patriotic duty to give in. Featured here: "La Marseilles" (near end), is the National Anthem of France. the song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Roget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of of war by France against Austria and was and is considered a patriotic war song. You might remember in Casablanca (at 1001 Heroes) in Rick's Bar, as the Germans began to sing their patriotic song, the free French in the bar countered with La Marseilles.

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