1001 Stories From The Gilded Age

A wealthy single man goes to a country inn that offers privacy and great fly fishing and ends up falling in love hook, line, and sinker for a mysterious woman he finds there and who shares the same past time. He soon finds that she has some unusual reasons as to why they can't become entangled. A true Victorian love story by George Egerton. Catch ALL our author interviews in one place here at 1001...

Two tales of love (sort of) from Old World Spain from the book "First Love and other fascinating stories of Spanish Life". NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-gre...

An old man confined to a sofa on his porch in a small apartment on a canal in Venice falls in love with a young girl across the way whom he can only see by her reflection in the canal. It is a poignant story of old age and of a love that could never be,   NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-o...

A country doctor dining with highbrows shares a story of a woman he had treated whose life had been spent loving a man who did not love her. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/u...

An 18 year old young man, broke, beaten, and searching for food near a river comes upon a young woman who has been a victim of abuse and is also searching for food. The man learns the lesson of love and kindness while spending a cold and rainy night beneath a washed up boat. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-g...

TWO Maupassant stories today- the first THE LOVE OF LONG AGO- an old well-to-do lady shares her knowledge of what love is all about with her young attendant and what she says is a shocker considering the times (circa 1900), In MOTHER AND SON a lawyer tells his peers a story of an elder lady who hired him to find her son- who has been missing for ten years, having left home abruptly after seeing hi...

An O.Henry DOUBLE FEATURE! In Springtime A La Carte a young lady struggling to make a living in turn of the century New York City is working to type up menus for a German restaurant but gets distracted by the arrival of spring and thoughts of her latest suitor, who hasn't contacted her in weeks. In Between Rounds O.Henry gives us a window by window view of a boardinghouse filled with Irish immigra...

An old cobbler who had lost his wife and only son finds refuge in the bible, and soon he receives a message that he will receive a visitor, whom he believes to be the Lord to his shop. NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Appl...

"Aloha Oe" by Jack London is the story of a young girl who has accompanied her father on a senator's junket to Hawaii, befriends a young man with Hawaiian blood,and learns a hard lession about the divisions between race and class. STORIES BY JACK LONDON. BEST OF JACK LONDON. JACK LONDON PODCAST. "The Mexican pt 2" will return as soon as I get over this d....n cold. NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Sto...

From our new collection at 1001 Greatest Love Stories- Three men meet at a San Francisco bar to reminisce about their experiences in the Yukon years before- and one of them recalls a woman that he met "1000 miles from anywhere" living with a tribe of Indians in the sub-arctic. She was a white woman- and her story was incredible. She had known she was "night-born"- born to seek adventure and the ro...

This well acted and well-written play from John Chapman was a big hit on Broadway in 1938 then became a classic movie in 1939. The story itself is a twist on an old Greek fable in which death is tricked into climbing a pear tree which had been blessed by St. Polycarp to trap anyone who was trying to steal an old woman's pears. It this story, a wise old Grandpa uses the trick to trap a man who is b...

While enjoying the company of an old friend, a middle-aged man recalls his unusual New Year's Eve trapped by a rushing tide aboard a wrecked schooner with a younger woman who had come with her father and sisters to sketch it before the wrecked hull was swept away by the ocean. Soon they were trapped by the wind and the rising sea,not knowing if the sea would reclaim the wreck along with them. This...

It's time to escape today's hectic life and head for a different time- a time when there was no internet or tv, a time when people actually wrote handwritten love letters, and a time when the word "stress" was a term relegated to physics classes. Master storyteller J.R. Hagadorn (1001 Stories Network) and guest hosts provide an entertaining mix of classic short stories from the 19th and 20th centu...