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⭐ 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales SHOW NOTES — Episode: The Bushwhacker Nurse By Frank R. Stockton From John Gayther's Garden and Other Stories (1903) Episode Summary In this episode, we bring you Frank R. Stockton's whimsical and imaginative tale "The Bushwhacker Nurse," one ...  Show more

Podcast Show Notes — "Tombstones" by Guy de Maupassant A 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales Episode Story Title: Tombstones Author: Guy de Maupassant Genre: Literary fiction / satire / social commentary Themes: Vanity, legacy, mortality, human absurdity, the business of remembran ...  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.

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