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.
A fast-paced, entertaining, and educational collection of narrated short stories and tales for all ages.
A lesson on the power of vanity, "The Necklace" tells the story of Madame Mathilde Loisel and her husband.
The tale that sent Bach soaring to fame tells the story of a seagull who practices for a lifetime to begin to know the meaning of kindness and love.
A collection of children’s stories written in 1888, dealing primarily with love and selfishness.
The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment.
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories.
A monthly reading and conversation.
The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful.
The seven stories' protagonists range from a Colombian teenage assassin to an elderly painter with health problems....