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⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, we present one of Edgar Allan Poe's most iconic and visually striking tales — "The Masque of the Red Death." First published in 1842, this story r ...  Show more

⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — "The World and the Door" by O. Henry From the collection Whirligigs (1910) ⭐ EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, we bring you one of O. Henry's most emotionally intricate and ironic tales — "The World and the Door." It's a story abou ...  Show more

🎧 Rudyard Kipling - "France at War" (1915) 🇫🇷⚔️ Step into the vivid reflections of renowned author Rudyard Kipling as he chronicles the realities of World War I in France. 🌍📖 This compelling collection of essays, written in 1915, captures the courage of French soldiers and t ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling has been described as the poet of Empire, celebrated for fictional works including Kim and The Jungle Book. Today his poem 'If--' remains one of the best known in the English ...  Show more

In this story which Doyle also wrote as a one act play, a small military post occupied by a multinational group of civilians, nurses, and soldiers during the Boxer rebellion is threatened with being overrun by the Chinese. Certain members of the group, fearing capture, consider w ...  Show more

Tonight, Elizabeth reads "The Tale of Pigling Bland," and "Ginger and Pickles," our last two stories from "The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter," a collection of Potter’s stories and short books from the early 1900s. Listen to the music from The Sleepy Bookshelf in a relaxing ...  Show more