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In Contes, récits et scènes en vers

Read by Ulrike Denis


Gustave Nadaud


Collection de 48 poèmes humouristiques ou tragiques ainsi que 2 petites scènes de théâtre de la plume de Gustave …

JEAN FRANCOIS

In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

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Maurice Baring


In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…

My Nephew Joseph by Ludovic Halevy

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds and Ludovic Halévy


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

Pastiche

In Pastiche and Prejudice

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Arthur Bingham Walkley


Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writin…

THE CUP IN BENJAMIN’S SACK,

In Joseph and his Brethren

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W. K. Tweedie


"The story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wi…

Ligeia

In Histoires extraordinaires

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Edgar Allan Poe


Ce recueil de 1884 rassemble 14 nouvelles extraordinaires de la plume du maître du fantastique américain, Edgar Allan Poe (1809…

The Action to the Word by Walter Herries Pollock

In The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean

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Henry Norman


This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative …

The Soldier and the Dragon

In The Fir-Tree Fairy Book

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Clifton Johnson


In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them a…

The Good Sir James

In The Strange Story Book

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Leonora Blanche Lang


A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final…