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"
Their fancy may take them odd directions, but fishermen are certainly entertaining company. P. G. Wodehouse's Mr. Mulliner spins a yarn in "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo."
Good beginnings, in film, in poetry, in fiction, are solid and memorable gold. Do you have favorites? Here are some of mine.
Stefan Zweig's intriguing classic story "The Invisible Colleciton"
On the occasion of his 175th birthday, two stories by the French Master Guy de Maupassant
A story about an amiable and resourceful small-town family by Thomas Beer, entitled simply "Tact."
Nobel Prize-winning Italian author Grazia Deledda's "The Open Door"
The second and concluding part of Ernest Thompson Seton's The Biography of a Grizzlhy
The first of two episodes: Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Grizzly
Kathleen Norris's plainly told and moving story of a young widow and mother on the fringes of a tight-knit community.
He made a preposterous bet, but don't sell Professor Van Dusen short: the conclusion of "The Problem of Cell 13" by Jacques Futrelle.
A ruthless practitioner of logic, Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen accepts the challenge of escaping from a high security prison. Can his logic work its way around this concrete and iron cage?
Two short spring pieces tonight, by Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat) and Elizabeth von Armin (The Enchanted April)
Once upon a time, before there were the Brothers Grimm, there was Charles Perrault, and he gave us (among others) the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Here is the story from his collection of Mother Goose Tales, first published in 1697. His children were charmed. I hope you will enjoy it, too.