Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools
By Various
Length12h 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:
2PREFACE
3INTRODUCTION
4I OUR NATIONAL READING
5II THE DEFINITION
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6III THE FAMILY TREE OF THE SHORT STORY
7IV A GOOD STORY
8V WHAT SHALL I DO WITH THIS BOOK?
9VI WHERE TO FIND SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES
10VII SOME INTERESTING SHORT STORIES
11VIII WHAT TO READ ABOUT THE SHORT STORY
12THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA[1] By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
13THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE
14THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL[2] By LAFCADIO HEARN
15THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
16WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO[3] By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
17WOOD-LADIES[5] By PERCEVAL GIBBON
18ON THE FEVER SHIP[6] By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
19A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER
20MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING
21GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER
22SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART A Monologue
23HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY
24MY HUSBAND’S BOOK[7] By James Matthew Barrie
25WAR By JACK LONDON: II
26THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By Morgan Robertson
27A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL
28THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE[8] By A. CONAN DOYLE
29ONE HUNDRED IN THE DARK By Owen Johnson
30A RETRIEVED REFORMATION[9] By O. HENRY
31BROTHER LEO By PHYLLIS BOTTOME
32A FIGHT WITH DEATH[10] By IAN MACLAREN
33THE DÀN-NAN-RÒN[11] By FIONA MACLEOD: II
34CRITICAL COMMENT
35THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON AND SUSANNA By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
36THE CROW-CHILD By MARY MAPES DODGE
37THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL By LAFCADIO HEARN
38THE TEN TRAILS By ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
39WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO By COUNT LEO TOLSTOI
40WOOD-LADIES By PERCEVAL GIBBON
41ON THE FEVER SHIP By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
42A SOURCE OF IRRITATION By STACY AUMONIER
43MOTI GUJ—MUTINEER By RUDYARD KIPLING
44GULLIVER THE GREAT By WALTER A. DYER
45SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ By RUTH McENERY STUART
46HER FIRST HORSE SHOW By DAVID GRAY
47MY HUSBAND’S BOOK By JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
48WAR By JACK LONDON
49THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS By MORGAN ROBERTSON
50A DILEMMA By S. WEIR MITCHELL
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