Stories

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark in 1805 and died in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1875. He wrote plays, novels, poems, autobiographies and travel stories but what he is most remembered fo...

27 Des 202424min

Stephen Leacock was born in England in 1869. When he was six his family moved to Ontario, Canada where they lived on a farm on Lake Simcoe. The farm failed but the family survived by money sent from S...

20 Des 202427min

Julia lands in Adler, Russia on the border of Georgia and where the Sochi airport is located. She is now in the southernmost reaches of the Caucasus Mountains where this mountain range meets the Black...

13 Des 202422min

Lyman Frank Baum was an American author best known for writing “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. He was born in Upstate New York in 1856 and died in Hollywood, California in 1919. He was 62 years old. He ...

29 Nov 202429min

Oscar Fingal O’Flaherty Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright born in Dublin Ireland in 1854 and died in Paris, France in 1900 at the age of 46. He wrote The Happy Prince in 1888. What is wrong with...

22 Nov 202425min

I think that had Saki not had such cruel and unforgiving guardians as the 2 aunts who raised him, we would not have the gems that he wrote later on in life. Saki is the pen name of Hector Hugh Monroe ...

15 Nov 202416min

Désirée's Baby is a tragedy written in 1893. It takes place in rural Louisiana before the abolition of slavery. It is about inter-racial marriage, but not in the way one might think of it today. Igno...

8 Nov 202417min

Sherwood Anderson was an American writer born in Camden, Ohio in 1876 and died in Colon, Panama in 1941. He swallowed a toothpick while on a cruise. He was 64 years old. His influences were Walt Whitm...

1 Nov 202417min