Summer of the Short Story Links

Provided below are links to read or listen to each short story that will be covered on episodes of The Literary Life podcast during the summer of 2019. All short stories are in the public domain. Thanks to listener Jacquelyn Beaumont for compiling this list! If you would like to hear all these short stories read by our own Thomas Banks, you can join The Literary Life Patreon group at the Fellows level.

Ep 11 “Araby” by James Joyce

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8d/chapter3.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nT_qPiPaDs (audio)

Ep 12 “A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls” by G. K. Chesterton

http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/penny-dreadfuls.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiSP2vHnwI (audio)

Ep 13 “The Garden Party” by Katherine Jenny Mansfield

http://katherinemansfieldsociety.org/assets/KM-Stories/THE-GARDEN-PARTY1921.pdf

https://librivox.org/the-garden-party-by-katherine-mansfield/ (audio)

Ep 14 “Adventures of a Shilling” by Joseph David Addison

https://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/fowlerjh/chap4.htm

Ep 15 “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Neck.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkvLV66Yvo (audio)

Ep 16 “Why I Write” by George Orwell

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iInD4f7nW5s (audio)

Ep 17 “The Celestial Omnibus” by E. M. Forster

http://mail.nysoclib.org/Digital_Archives/events/Seminars/The%20Story%20of%20a%20Panic.pdf

https://librivox.org/short-story-collection-vol-040-by-various/ (audio, track 1)

Ep 18 “Vulture on War” by Samuel Johnson

https://www.samueljohnson.com/idlervulture.html