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  Five Children and It

  E. Nesbit

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  The story of three wishes being granted is an old one and often takes the form of a precautionary tale with the resultant moral being “be careful what you wish for!” Such is the fallibility of human nature that we can’t easily be trusted to use those wishes wisely. 
  The great children’s author Edith Nesbit (1858 – 1924) took this popular concept for her 1903 book “Five Children and It” and extended the wishes from three to eleven, now granted to five young siblings in Edwardian England. 
  They have no Geni of the Lamp or Fairy Godmother, but instead, an irascible Sand Fairy dug accidently out of the sand of an abandon quarry. This strange “Psammead”, with his snail’s eyes on stalks, furry squat body and aversion to water reluctantly grants the four children their, often ill thought out, wishes. 
  Nesbit writes with her usual warmth and humour, placing her protagonists into funny and sometimes frightening adventures which gradually make the children “wise beyond their years.” 
  Head Stories Audio presents "Five Children and It" by E. Nesbit. Narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

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  The Story of the Treasure Seekers

  E. Nesbit

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  "I’ll tell you what, we must go and seek for treasure: it is always what you do to restore the fallen fortunes of your House..."  
  And so begins the tales of the Bastable children (all six of them) and their attempts at treasure seeking, never with any great fiscal success, but with plenty of adventure and the making of new friends.  
  From the author of The Railway Children, The Treasure Seekers is the first of her Bastable Children series, which has inspired writers from C.S. Lewis to Michael Moorcock.  
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

  Beatrix Potter

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  The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is written by the popular children's author Beatrix Potter. Timmy and his wife Goody are collecting nuts for winter. But Timmy falls into a hole and can't get out! Goody searches for him everywhere. The moral of the story is: concentrate on your own life and don't mind others. Recommended for age 3+.

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  Picture in the House The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  While riding his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm. He enters an apparently abandoned house, only to find it occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man", speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect... thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution. At first, the old man appears harmless and ignorant towards his guest. However, he shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, Regnum Congo, and admits to the narrator how it made him hunger for "victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It's suggested that the old man was murdering travelers who stumbled upon the house to satisfy his "craving", and has extended his own life preternaturally through cannibalism.[4] Soon, a now frightened narrator realizes the old man has been alive for over a century. Still, the old man denies he ever acted upon such a desire. Suddenly, a drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house. Fortunately, the narrator survives to tell of his ordeal.

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  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...

  Jules Verne

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  Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved.
  VOLUME 2: We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea.
  The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo's life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - 19th...

  George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell,...

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  This century is crammed full of talents that showcase an enviable array of stories and genres.  Across a hundred years the short story develops, becomes yet more emboldened, more accessible to a wider audience as these female authors challenge the literary bastions.  
   
  1 - The Top Ten - 19th Century Women 
   
  2 - The Dream by Mary Shelley 
   
  3 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
   
  4 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot 
   
  5 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards  
   
  6 - A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett 
   
  7 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 
   
  8 - The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
   
  9 - Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin 
   
  10 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
   
  11 - Sould Belated by Edith Wharton

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