American Stories

2022-06-10 ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,’ by Mark Twain

Editor's note: This story includes some of the informal dialect that Mark Twain liked to include in his writing. We…

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2022-06-03 The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We all want to make ourselves better. Women and men try to be more attractive, smarter, and kinder. This story…

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2022-05-27 The Lady in Black by Eleanor H. Porter

Our story today is called “The Lady in Black.” It was written by Eleanor H. Porter. Here is Faith Lapidus…

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2022-05-20 ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ by Edgar Allan Poe, Part Three

We present the last of three parts of the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar…

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