1001 Stories From The Gilded Age
1001 Classic Stories For All Ages (Formerly 1001 Greatest Love & Life Stories) brings you a wide mix of classic short stories and long-form family-friendly novels, many which are called children's literature but deserve adult status, such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables and Black Beauty. ...
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May 18, 2025
LONG DISTANCE and A BUSH LEAGUE HERO EDNA FERBER
Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely....
May 4, 2025
ON THE DIVIDE by WILLA CATHER
"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896. Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first...
April 27, 2025
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May...
April 20, 2025
A SOCIETY by VIRGINIA WOOLF
A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers. As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the...
April 16, 2025
A HUMBLE ROMANCE by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good ...
April 6, 2025
THE MAN WHO CAME BACK by EDNA FERBER
A man makes a vow to take care of his three sisters and life is changed
April 6, 2025
THE AXE AND THE DROOT FAMILY and THE TRIAL OF LAURA D. FAIR TRUE CRIME
Two great true stories from the radio annals of True Crime Classics
March 30, 2025
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOAN by MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
When a rag-tag little girl named Joan, the down-and-out minister's daughter, knocks on Sarah's door to sell her some very familiar-looking handiwork just before Christmas, Sarah finds more compassion and generosity than she k...
March 16, 2025
SHANDON WATERS by KATHLEEN NORRIS
A tight knit community finds they have something to learn about forgiveness and kindness when a 20 year old widow brings her baby to town to visit with the one friend she has there.
March 9, 2025
AN INDISCREET LETTER by ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
This story gives you a seat on a Halifax to Boston train circa 1915 where you will catch a very interesting conversation between a salesman of women's wear, an electrician, and a young lady, who,tired of traveling for the past 3 days, and desirous of...
March 2, 2025
WHAT SHE WORE by EDNA FERBER
A young man from a prairie town comes to the Big City and finds a job in a discount shoe store where works a young woman who has been working for starving wages. They become working friends to the point where , when he screws up enough courage,...
Feb. 23, 2025
THE MAN OF FLESH AND BLOOD by SUSAN GLASPELL
A man running for governor shocks his peers by giving an unsual speech at a boy's reformitory by baring his soul and admitting that he, too, as a boy and a young man, was a bad actor. He explained what he had done, and told the boys that they could...
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