Classic English Short Stories
A selection of the best stories from over one hundred years of English literature including works by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson.
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The Baron of Grogzwig
. . . Charles Dickens
. . . 9 pages
A hard drinking, womanising, moustache-wearing baron decides he must get married.
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Aaron Trow
. . . Anthony Trollope
. . . 25 pages
Adventure story following the circumstances surrounding the escape of a notorious prisoner from his Bermudan jail.
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An Imaginative Woman
. . . Thomas Hardy
. . . 22 pages
Ella had always admired the work of Robert Trewe, but when she finds herself sub-letting his appartment, her love of the poems starts to become a love of the poet.
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Markheim
. . . Robert Louis Stevenson
. . . 15 pages
Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature.
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The Happy Prince
. . . Oscar Wilde
. . . 8 pages
A modern fairy tale about the selfless acts of a golden statue and a migrating swallow.
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Amy Foster
. . . Joseph Conrad
. . . 24 pages
A young girl falls in love with a mysterious stranger, shipwrecked in the bay near her village.
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The Case of Lady Sannox
. . . Arthur Conan Doyle
. . . 9 pages
A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
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Gentlemen and Players
. . . E. W. Hornung
. . . 17 pages
The master criminal Raffles sets his sights on a priceless collection of jewels. Crime story in which the villain is the hero.
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Tobermory
. . . Saki
. . . 7 pages
Revealing the dangers of giving previously dumb animals the power of speech. Especially cats.
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