"When you read (or listen to) a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you." ~ George Saunders

Here you will find 50 of the greatest public-domain short stories ever written, as curated by the staff of The Bookquarium, all performed by Frank Marcopolos. ("Thee perfect voice for audiobooks--it is so listenable!" said one reviewer.)

Some of the greatest writers in history are included in this collection--Ernest Hemingway, Ayn Rand, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Stephen Crane, H.P. Lovecraft, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe among them.

Frank Marcopolos Bio:

Frank Marcopolos founded "The Whirligig" literary magazine in 1999, which has been called "a landmark, demonstrating the power of the literary underground." One reviewer said that "you get this true lion-roaring sense that Editor Frank Marcopolos knows what he likes, and how to read, and how to publish, and he has guts, and eats insects on Wheaties with bleach." Frank's long-form fiction has been reviewed with such praise as "thorough-goingly entertaining" and "highly readable...recalls the style of Michael Chabon or John Irving. A literary gem that should not be missed." A broadcasting-school graduate, Frank's unique literary-audio work has been featured in movie trailers, scholastic environments, underground mixtapes, and on YouTube, with one of his audiobooks achieving over 100,000 "views" there. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA, without a dog, and records at The Bookquarium Recording Studio.

The stories included are as follows:

My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Landing in Luck by William Faulkner
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
The Kiss by Kate Chopin
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Dead by James Joyce
The Gun by Philip K. Dick
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe
The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells
On the Gull's Road by Willa Cather
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The Last Leaf by O. Henry
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Picture in the House by H.P. Lovecraft
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
A Dark Brown Dog by Stephen Crane
Araby by James Joyce
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte
The Interlopers by Saki (H.H. Munro)
Up in Michigan by Ernest Hemingway
William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
The Street by H.P. Lovecraft
The Damned Thing by Ambrose

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