English Stories Moral Novels

21 December 2022 21:19

A Fair Penitent
by Wilkie Collins
Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He prospered sufficiently well, as a literary man, to be made...
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https://telegra.ph/A-Fair-Penitent-05-30

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20 December 2022 20:25

The Eye of Appollo
by G. K. Chesterton
That singular smoky sparkle, at once a confusion and a transparency, which is the strange secret of the Thames, was changing more and more from its grey to its glittering extreme as the sun climbed to the zenith over Westminster, and two men crossed...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Eye-of-Appollo-05-17

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18 December 2022 22:03

The Goatherd & the Wild Goats
Aesop's fables
One cold stormy day a Goatherd drove his Goats for shelter into a cave, where a number of Wild Goats had also found their way. The Shepherd wanted to make the Wild Goats part of his flock; so he fed them well. But to his own flock, he gave...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Goatherd--the-Wild-Goats-04-09

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17 December 2022 20:32

The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse
Aesop's Fables
A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very first time he ventured out. And this is the story he told his mother about his adventures.
"I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Cat-the-Cock-and-the-Young-Mouse-03-29

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16 December 2022 19:57

The Wolf turned Shepherd
La Fontaine's fables
A wolf, whose gettings from the flocks Began to be but few,
Bethought himself to play the fox
In character quite new.
A shepherd's hat and...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Wolf-turned-Shepherd-06-19

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15 December 2022 08:12

Oil of Dog
By Ambrose Bierce
My name is Boffer Bings. I was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, my father being a manufacturer of dog-oil and my mother having a small studio in the shadow...
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https://telegra.ph/Oil-of-Dog-05-16

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14 December 2022 13:12

The Black Veil
by Charles Dickens
One winter's evening, towards the close of the year 1800, or within a year or two of that time, a young medical practitioner, recently established in business, was seated by a cheerful fire in his little parlour, listening to the wind which was beating the rain in pattering...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Black-Veil-06-03

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13 December 2022 12:47

The Story of the Forty-First Brother
Ukrainian folktale
There was once upon a time an old man who had forty-one sons. Now when this old man was at the point of death, he divided all he had among his sons, and gave to each of the forty a horse; but when he came to the forty-first he found he had no more horses left, so the forty-first brother had to be...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Story-of-the-Forty-First-Brother-07-13

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11 December 2022 21:01

The Story of the Wind
Ukrainian folktale
Once upon a time there dwelt two brethren in one village, and one brother was very, very rich, and the other brother was very, very poor. The rich man had wealth...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Story-of-the-Wind-06-23

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10 December 2022 22:12

The Two Princes
Ukrainian folktale
There was once upon a time a King who had two sons, and these sons went a-hunting in the forest and there lost themselves. They wandered on and on for twelve weeks, and at the end of the twelve weeks they came to a place where three roads met, and the elder brother said to the younger...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Two-Princes-07-11

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09 December 2022 12:26

The Dog & His Master's Dinner
Aesop's Fables
A Dog had learned to carry his master's dinner to him every day. He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell of the good things in the basket tempted....
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https://telegra.ph/The-Dog--His-Masters-Dinner-03-17

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08 December 2022 08:05

Three Bullocks & a lion
Aesop's Fables
A Lion had been watching three Bullocks feeding in an open field. He had tried to attack them several times, but they had kept together, and helped each other to drive him off. The Lion had little hope of eating them, for he was no match for three...
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https://telegra.ph/Three-Bullocks--a-lion-04-14

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07 December 2022 11:55

A Desertion
by Stephen Crane
The yellow gaslight that came with an effect of difficulty through the dust-stained windows on either side of the door gave strange hues to the faces and forms of the three women who stood gabbling...
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https://telegra.ph/A-Desertion-06-01

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05 December 2022 22:12

The Mischievous Dog
Aesop's Fables
There was once a Dog who was so ill-natured and mischievous that his Master had to fasten a heavy wooden clog about his neck to keep him from annoying visitors and neighbors. But the Dog seemed to...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Mischievous-Dog-05-02

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04 December 2022 21:21

The Ass & the Load of Salt
Aesop's Fables
A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Ass--the-Load-of-Salt-03-02

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21 December 2022 12:33

The Story of Unlucky Daniel
Ukrainian folktale
There was once upon a time a youth called Unlucky Dan. Wherever he went, and whatever he did, and with whomsoever he served, nothing came of it: all his...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Story-of-Unlucky-Daniel-06-28

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19 December 2022 10:32

The Collision
By Ade, George 
Once in the dim dead Days beyond Recall, there lived a blue-eyed Gazook named Steve.
We refer to the Period preceding the Uplift, when...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Collision-05-02

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18 December 2022 11:15

The Farmer & the Stork
Aesop's Fables
A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted. But the party ended dismally with all...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Farmer--the-Stork-02-19

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17 December 2022 10:59

Down with the Taid
by Charles Dickens
A VERY dark night it was, and bitter cold; the east wind blowing bleak,
and bringing with it stinging particles from marsh, and moor, and fen -from the Great Desert and Old Egypt...
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https://telegra.ph/Down-with-the-Taid-06-04

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15 December 2022 21:08

CLEAN SWEEP IGNATIUS
by jeffrey archer
Few showed much interest when Ignatius Agarbi was appointed Nigeria’s minister of finance. After all, the cynics pointed out, he was the seventeenth person to hold the office in seventeen years.
In Ignatius’s first major...
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https://telegra.ph/CLEAN-SWEEP-IGNATIUS-04-07

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14 December 2022 22:05

The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents
Ukrainian folktale
Somewhere, nowhere, in another kingdom, in the Empire of Thrice-ten, lived––whether ’twas a Tsar and a Tsaritsa, or only a Prince and a Princess, I know not, but anyhow they had two sons. One day this prince said to his sons, “Let us go down to the seashore and listen to the songs of the ...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Wondrous-Story-of-Ivan-Golik-and-the-Serpents-07-14

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13 December 2022 20:34

The Thieves and the Ass
By La Fontaine's fables
Two thieves, pursuing their profession,Had of a donkey got possession,Whereon a strife arose,Which went from words to blows.The question was, to sell, or not to sell;But while our sturdy ...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Thieves-and-the-Ass-06-09

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12 December 2022 21:17

The God of Gongs
by G. K. Chesterron
IT was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver. If it was dreary in a hundred bleak offices and yawning drawing-rooms, it was drearier still along the edges...
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https://telegra.ph/The-God-of-Gongs-05-25

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11 December 2022 12:06

Jupiter & the Monkey
Aesop's Fables
There was once a baby show among the Animals in the forest. Jupiter provided the prize. Of course all the proud mammas from far and near brought their babies. But none got there earlier than Mother..
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https://telegra.ph/Jupiter--the-Monkey-05-25

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09 December 2022 20:31

The Child’s Story
By Charles Dickens
Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Childs-Story-06-09

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08 December 2022 20:51

The Ass, the Fox, & the Lion
Aesop's Fables
An Ass and a Fox had become close comrades, and were constantly in each other's company. While the Ass cropped a fresh bit of greens, the Fox would devour a chicken from the neighboring farmyard or a bit of cheese filched from....
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https://telegra.ph/The-Ass-the-Fox--the-Lion-03-06

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07 December 2022 19:54

The Rose & the Butterfly
Aesop's Fables
A Butterfly once fell in love with a beautiful Rose. The Rose was not indifferent, for the Butterfly's wings were powdered in a charming pattern of gold and silver. And so, when...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Rose--the-Butterfly-05-05

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06 December 2022 09:59

The Kid & the Wolf
Aesop's Fables
"A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of harm's way. The Kid was...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Kid--the-Wolf-02-12

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05 December 2022 12:21

The Wolf turned Shepherd
La Fontaine's fables
A wolf, whose gettings from the flocks Began to be but few,
Bethought himself to play the fox
In character quite new.
A shepherd's hat and...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Wolf-turned-Shepherd-06-19

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04 December 2022 04:55

‘The Lottery Ticket’
By Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904)
Ivan Dmitrich, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the...
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https://telegra.ph/The-Lottery-Ticket-05-18