Children and adults can learn English through story, in many ways, both as serious study and as a casual free-time activity. Many would attest that stories are an excellent way to learn English for a learner of any age. Reading Stories is an Excellent Way to Learn English! As a child, perhaps you have a …
Are you looking for a selection of free English short stories? Check out this list, take your time and find a tale you like! Reading free short stories in English brings significant benefits. First, they are short compared to novels, and busy individuals wouldn’t hesitate because they only need to spend a few hours. As …
The Final Problem: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I …
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The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not — and …
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In the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The …
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL By CHARLES DICKENS ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE ALFRED WILLIAMS STAVE ONE MARLEY’S GHOST Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon …
Aesop’s Fables The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. “Ho! ho!” quoth he, “that’s for me,” and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl …