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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Available on: Audio Download
The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period.
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Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life
by Stephen Leacock
Available on: Audio Download
The author holds forth on the subject of success and its true value in life.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Available on: Audio Download
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse).
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download
A collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness.
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Available on: Audio Download
Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the story of Gregor Samsa, a young traveling salesman who lives with his family and financially supports his parents and younger sister...
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The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Available on: Audio Download
Prince Prospero and his courtiers, locked safely away from the plague of the Red Death...
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The Happy Prince
by Oscar Wilde
Available on: Audio Download
“...Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow. Stay with me one night longer”
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The Emperor's New Clothes
by Hans Christian Andersen
Available on: Audio Download
“...but the Emperor has nothing at all on, said a little child.”
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Selected Short Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Available on: Audio Download
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the changing mores of American society.
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The Gift of the Magi
by O. Henry
Available on: Audio Download
The Gift of the Magi is one of O. Henry's most famous stories.
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