
Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools
By VariousLength12h 12m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Most collections of short stories that have been prepared, for school use, up to the present, are more or less alike in in drawing much of their material from the past. Authors and content alike are dead. Here is a collection that is entirely modern. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, the themes are themes of present-day thought. The students who read this book will be more awake to the present, and will be better citizens of to-day."
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length12 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Modern Short Stories:
41ON THE FEVER SHIP By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
2PREFACE
42A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER
3INTRODUCTION
43MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING
4I OUR NATIONAL READING
44GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER
5II THE DEFINITION
45SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART
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6III THE FAMILY TREE OF THE SHORT STORY
46HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY
7IV A GOOD STORY
47MY HUSBAND’S BOOK By JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
8V WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS BOOK?
48WAR By JACK LONDON
9VI WHERE TO FIND SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
49THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By MORGAN ROBERTSON
10VII SOME INTERESTING SHORT STORIES
50A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL
11VIII WHAT TO READ ABOUT THE SHORT STORY
51THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE By A. CONAN DOYLE
12THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA[1] By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
52ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK By OWEN JOHNSON
13THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE
53A RETRIEVED REFORMATION By O. HENRY
14THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL[2] By LAFCADIO HEARN
54BROTHER LEO By PHYLLIS BOTTOME
15THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
55A FIGHT WITH DEATH By IAN MACLAREN
16WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO[3] By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
56THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN By FIONA MACLEOD
17WOOD-LADIES[5] By PERCEVAL GIBBON
57SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS FOR CLASS USE
18ON THE FEVER SHIP[6] By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
58THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA
19A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER
59THE CROW CHILD
20MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING
60THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL
21GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER
61THE TEN TRAILS
22SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART A Monologue
62WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO
23HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY
63WOOD LADIES
24MY HUSBAND’S BOOK[7] By James Matthew Barrie
64ON THE FEVER SHIP
25WAR By JACK LONDON: II
65A SOURCE OF IRRITATION
26THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By Morgan Robertson
66MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER
27A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL
67GULLIVER THE GREAT
28THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE[8] By A. CONAN DOYLE
68SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’
29ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK By Owen Johnson
69HER FIRST HORSE SHOW
30A RETRIEVED REFORMATION[9] By O. HENRY
70MY HUSBAND’S BOOK
31BROTHER LEO By PHYLLIS BOTTOME
71WAR
32A FIGHT WITH DEATH[10] By IAN MACLAREN
72THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS
33THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN[11] By FIONA MACLEOD: II
73A DILEMMA
34CRITICAL COMMENT
74THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
35THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
75ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK
36THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE
76A RETRIEVED REFORMATION
37THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL By LAFCADIO HEARN
77BROTHER LEO
38THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
78A FIGHT WITH DEATH
39WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
79THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN
40WOOD-LADIES By PERCEVAL GIBBON