English Stories Moral Novels

2023-05-03 07:56:25 À LA CARTE
by jeffrey archer
Arthur Hapgood was demobilized on November 3, 1946. Within a month he was back at his old workplace on the shop floor of the Triumph factory on the outskirts of Coventry.
The five years spent in the Sherwood Foresters, four of them as a quartermaster seconded...
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2023-05-02 18:30:52 The Origin of the Mole
Ukrainian folktale
Once upon a time a rich man and a poor man had a field in common, and they sowed it with the same seed at the same time. But God prospered the poor man’s labour and made his seed to grow, but the rich man’s...
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2023-05-02 06:30:30 The Man & the Lion
Aesop's Fables
A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest. They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength...
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2023-05-01 18:30:22 The Ass & the Lap Dog
Aesop's Fables
There was once an Ass whose Master also owned a Lap Dog. This Dog was a favorite and received many a pat and kind word from his Master, as well as choice bits from his plate. Every day the Dog would run to meet the Master, frisking playfully...
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2023-04-30 18:30:56 Antonio Canova
James Baldwin
A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was Antonio Canova. He lived with his grandfather, ...
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2023-04-30 06:30:49 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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2023-04-29 18:31:03 À LA CARTE
by jeffrey archer
Arthur Hapgood was demobilized on November 3, 1946. Within a month he was back at his old workplace on the shop floor of the Triumph factory on the outskirts of Coventry.
The five years spent in the Sherwood Foresters, four of them as a quartermaster seconded...
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https://telegra.ph/%C3%80-LA-CARTE-04-20 Open / Comment

2023-04-29 06:30:46 The Divine Spark
By George Ade
One Evening at a Converted Rink known as the Grand Opera House, a flock of intrepid Amateurs put on a War Drama. Lila, principal Child of the Egg and Poultry King, played a Daughter of the Southland, with her Hair shaken out and...
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2023-04-28 18:30:37 THE LOOPHOLE
by jeffrey archer
 “That isn’t the version I heard,” said Philip.
One of the club members seated at the bar glanced around at the sound of raised voices, but when he saw who was involved only smiled...
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2023-04-28 06:35:20 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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