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The Best British Short Stories of 1922

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When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stori..

The fables of Phaedrus

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Aesop is credited with inventing animal fables, but the earliest written versions are by Phaedrus, apparently a slave, who introduced them to Latin literature in the time of Augustus. Many other story..

Jokes For All Occasions

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The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which any one may perfect himself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions b..

Acts of the Apostle

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Acts of the Apostles, often referred to simply as Acts, or formally the Book of Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its mes..

The Kalevala

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The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is on..

The Nibelungenlied

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The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem from around 1200 written in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau...

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

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The story of Aladdin is a Middle-Eastern folk tale that is included in A Thousand and One Nights, and is the story of a poor boy in a Chinese city. Aladdin is convinced by a sorcerer to fetch a magic ..

Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper

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Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is..