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G. K. Chesterton's priestly detective Father Brown examines a curse on an old and prominent Devonshire family.
A humorous and satisfying story of one man taking on the corrupt local political machine: Meredith Nicholson's "the Boulevard of Rogues"
Master storyteller Guy de Maupassant's "Théodule Sabot's Confession"
Lest we forget: George Washington's and Dwight Eisenhower farewell addresses
A young girl discovers her passion for New England country life and her love and values for the animals that inhabit it.
A Christmas story set in Poland: Eric Kelly's "In Clean Hay"
So familiar, but somehow always new and wonderful: O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"
A fine young woman falls for a rotter. What directions might it take? Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Redeeming Sacrifice"
About as cold as it gets: Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
A Hollywood yarn from P. G. Wodehouse: "The Nodder"
Two stories by two great wits and storytellers: Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward
Ambrose Bierce's famous and startling Civil War story, "A Horseman in the Sky"
It has been said that P. G. Wodehouse’s inimitable comic style was as hard to analyze as his emotions; one critic described the task as “taking a spade to a soufflé.” So no need to subject it to analysis, just relax and enjoy Wodehouse's "Jeeves and the Love That Purifies."
A Western tale by the gifted storyteller and illustrator Will James, "The Seeing Eye"
Off to the world of newspapers in Jesse Lynch Williams's "The City Editor's Conscience"
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a fearless mongoose and the family that took him in: Rikki-Tikki Tavi
Elinor Mordaunt's "Genius," a story of a brilliant, unworldly talent and its pursuit of a concert career
How to live in an uncertain or chaotic world? Two stories by W. Somerset Maugham.
Internationally famous as a naturalist and ornithologist, he also wrote novels and short stories set in his native Argentina. Tonight's story is W. H. Hudson's romance, "Story of a Piebald Horse."
Miss Marple in full flower in this early mystery from The Tuesday Night Club: "Motive Versus Opportunity"




