Librivox Short Story Collection 051 cover

Librivox Short Story Collection 051

by Ruth Golding

Brooksmith by Henry James (1843-1916) Champagne by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) A Comedy in Rubber O. Henry (1862-1910) Daniel O'Rourke's Wonderful Voyage to the Moon by Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) Dream Life and Real Life; A Little African Story by Olive Schreiner (1855 –1920) The Drink of the Dead: A Legend of Bushmanland by Frederick Cornell (1867-1921) The Fan-Letter Bride by Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894-1988) Fog Patterns from 1001 Afternoons in Chicago (1921) by Ben Hecht (1894-1964) The Garden Lodge Willa Cather (1873-1947) Hearts and Hands by O. Henry (1862 – 1910) The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) Mother by Owen Wister (1860-1938) Poems in Prose by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Sword of Welleran by Lord Dunsany (Edward J. M. D. Plunkett) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) To Build a Fire (1908 version) by Jack London (1876-1916) The Urge by Maryland Allen (?-1927), from O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Walter Schnaffs' Adventure by Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) Where Love is there God is also by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), translated by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852-1935)

Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?