LitReading - Classic Short Stories

What happens when hate overwhelms love? Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we tell the difference between benevolence and predation? Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Twain's first popular story of a hardcore gambler in a mining camp during the Gold Rush. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clovis takes on an overly proud mother Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professional baseball in United States dates back more than 150 years. It has been considered the great American sport since the 19th century. Popular sports attract rabid fans as was the case even back in 1910 when Zane Grey wrote Old Well Well.Known for his Western novels, Zane Gray was one of the most popular authors of the 20th century. Gray was also a huge baseball fan and published a number of stories about the sport. One of the first American authors to become a millionaire, more than 100 movies were made from his popular tales. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not all dragons are fire breathing monsters bent on destruction. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Early in the US Civil War, families, particularly those in the western part of Virginia (now the state of West Virginia), were torn apart over conflicting loyalties. This story is a fictional account of one young soldier who chose to fight for his country rather than his state.Ambrose served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He became the most famous Civil War storyteller of all time. This story was first published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1889. Years later, Bierce vanished while travel with rebel troops during the Mexican Revolutionary War in 1913.If you haven’t yet, you should also listen to Bierce’s most famous story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” also on Litreading. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is nothing like a corporate bureaucracy to raise someone's ire. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is something special about the Old West. Life is the western United States for much of the 19th century was akin to living in another country, which makes sense as it was cobbled together from many diverse societies. Our next story takes place in the Great Southwest and involves a potential love triangle gone very wrong.During his short life, Frank Norris had an outsized impact on American Literature. A painter turned author, Norris travelled globally as a news correspondent writing several short stories and novels. His finest work, The Octopus was intended as the first book of a trilogy on which he was working when he died during appendicitis surgery at the age of 34. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Without individual compassion, the good, old days were rarely good for orphaned or disabled children. Love hearing these classic tales?Get access to the complete, ad-free Litreading archive—by subscribing at litreading.supercast.com.For just a few cents a day, you’ll unlock every story I’ve ever read, hear new episodes first, and support this little literary labor of love.That’s litreading.supercast.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.