A young Allen Quartermaine does his best to free his caravan of Boers from the clutches of an evil Zulu King named Dungaan. 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...
Jul 06, 2025•53 min
Hernan Periera leaves the Boer camp but continues to bring trouble upon them. He also attempts to ambush Allan and nearly succeeds. APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at Apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at Apple Podcast now: https...
Jun 29, 2025•52 min
Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the fifth novel, and the eighth story overall, in the Allan Quatermain series. The novel describes Quate...
Jun 22, 2025•49 min
Allen and his Hottentot servant Hans have a rough sail towards their destination, finally disembarking within 50 miles of their destination. They spend one week preparing for the inland journey, purchasing two good wagons and securing help for the trip. After 11 days they see what looks like an abandoned camp seven miles distant ..... . APPLE USERS Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?...
Jun 20, 2025•28 min
Marie's father Henri makes it clear that he forbids their marriage and both Allan and Marie profess their love for each other. Marie and her father join the Boer trek northward along with Hernan, Marie's suitor. More than a year later, Allan receives a letter from Marie explaining how the trip has been a deadly disaster and asking him to come. APPLE USERS 1001 Stories From Roy's Diner at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/1001-stories-from-roys-diner/id1594740377 Catch 1001 Her...
Jun 18, 2025•51 min
The day of the shooting match arrives and Allan and Hernan go at it. Hernan asks to go first, an advantage which gives him the lower flying targets before the geese begin to get spooked. As Hernan's geese go down, Allan notices something strange about the way they are falling.... YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES and Player.fm ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! (You need your Apple ID) Catch ALL our author interviews in one place here at 1001 History's Best Storytellers! Android devices: https://podbay.fm/p...
Jun 15, 2025•29 min
Still recovering from wounds suffered during the defense of Maraisfontaine, young Allen has to cope with a wealthy suitor coming between himself and Marie. Marie's father, having lost all his livestock, and therefore most of his wealth, in the raid, sees his only future coming from a marriage between his daughter and the young man, who is arrogant and condescending to Allen. Allen challenges him to a shooting match, betting his best horse against a cash bet. Get all of our shows at one website: ...
Jun 13, 2025•29 min
Le Blanc rides out alone to check his copper diggings and falls asleep drunk, waking up to find his horse, which had grazed beyond his view, being led by area tribesmen, who are actually returning it to him. He believes they are stealing it, and shoots and kills one of them, who is the chief's son. Early the next morning, young Allen Quartermaine , sleeping at his farm 15 miles away, is wakened by his Hottentot servant Hans and told that the Kaffir tribesmen are planning a dawn attack on the Mar...
Jun 11, 2025•51 min
Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the fifth novel, and the eighth story overall, in the Allan Quatermain series. The novel describes Quate...
Jun 08, 2025•26 min
MEA young man returns from the west to catch up with his Aunt and Uncle,who raised him, and hopefully to start a business with the money he saved, only to find that they have lost their home and are now living in a poorhouse. R Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 25, 2025•17 min
Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely. Few people now recollect Edna Ferber, once a best-selling novelist. Nevertheless she numbered among her champions Somerset Maugham, who in 1948 told playwright Garson Kanin: "I admire Edna Ferber. She's a true professional." To Kanin's inquiry, "What sort of writer would you...
May 18, 2025•40 min
In this classic story by Guy de Maupassant a young man with a troubling past marries a young French girl, and during their wedding party a note is delivered to him that requires him to leave the party immediately. He tells his new wife that an old friend is in dire trouble and he must go and help. As the hours pass the young bride awaits an unsure future. APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes ! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroe...
May 11, 2025•17 min
"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896. Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first forty years of his life in Sweden. Lena takes to teasing him and going to church with him. One day, he asks her father if he can marry her and the father says no. He then proceeds to drag Lena to his house by force, drag a priest there by force too, and get ...
May 04, 2025•37 min
DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May 30 should be set aside as Decoration Day, so-called from the tradition of decorating graves with flowers. More than five thousand participants gathered for the first Decoration Day in Arlington National Cemetery and lavished flowers and flags on some tw...
Apr 27, 2025•37 min
A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers. As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the beginning of an era when women no longer were required to being 10 or 15 children into the world- that education was important- and that men really didn't seem to know it all. I think all who listen to this story will have a different take- and thats what make...
Apr 20, 2025•40 min
The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good storyteller in this genre- and the people were often siomple and honest and hardworking. Check out our website at www.bestof1001stories.com
Apr 16, 2025•45 min
A man makes a vow to take care of his three sisters and life is changed
Apr 06, 2025•28 min
When a rag-tag little girl named Joan, the down-and-out minister's daughter, knocks on Sarah's door to sell her some very familiar-looking handiwork just before Christmas, Sarah finds more compassion and generosity than she knew she had. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated)....
Mar 30, 2025•47 min
A young actress, convalescing at the beach in the company of her doctor and his wife, is hounded by a young girl who idolizes her. An unusual series of events occur which reveal that they have more in common than they knew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 23, 2025•38 min
A tight knit community finds they have something to learn about forgiveness and kindness when a 20 year old widow brings her baby to town to visit with the one friend she has there.
Mar 16, 2025•30 min
This story gives you a seat on a Halifax to Boston train circa 1915 where you will catch a very interesting conversation between a salesman of women's wear, an electrician, and a young lady, who,tired of traveling for the past 3 days, and desirous of some conversation, asks if she can join in. The subject eventually turns to the fact she has written "an indiscreet letter", which , by the terms of the times, means any letter written to a one time acquaintance that bares the soul. In her case, its...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 18 min
A young man from a prairie town comes to the Big City and finds a job in a discount shoe store where works a young woman who has been working for starving wages. They become working friends to the point where , when he screws up enough courage, he advises her against wearing a deep V dress, saying that his mother back home would never allow it. Edna Ferber's excellent characterization of both makes them come alive and the story becomes a "moment in time" look back to Chicago of 1912. For more st...
Mar 02, 2025•28 min
A man running for governor shocks his peers by giving an unsual speech at a boy's reformitory by baring his soul and admitting that he, too, as a boy and a young man, was a bad actor. He explained what he had done, and told the boys that they could turn themselves around by taking control of their actions and finding the good within their souls- that all of us have to make that struggle- some have it easy, and some have it hard to do. But winning that battle is the only true path to happiness. T...
Feb 23, 2025•34 min
A young bride-to-be gets a visit from her aunt along with tsome good advice about marriage.
Feb 16, 2025•25 min
The story of Antony and Cleopatra is one of the great love stories of history, and it is well told here by Lyndon Orr as a part of his series of great love stories, some of which we'll be doing here as we go forward. Their story provided Shakespeare with some of the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Google Podcasts FREE: https://podcasts.google.com/search/1001%20radio%20days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales at Google Podcasts https://podcasts.go...
Feb 09, 2025•28 min
A young girl pursues her dream of writing a successful novel depite the responsibilities she has of caring for her mother and siblings, causing lots of troubles and heartache.
Feb 02, 2025•25 min
The dramatic story of a young girl living in a small community while caring for her invalid mother, who is called upon to save lives during a bad rainstorm. A huge dance which she can't attent because she could find noone to watch her mother is taking place a few towns away and nearly everyone in her community is there. An older man who lives near the marsh arrives at her house with news that a boat full of young boys is foundering out in the marsh and that the two oldest boys managed to get the...
Jan 26, 2025•37 min
This gripping short story by Mary E.Wilkins Freeman involves 4 Glynn family siblings (Henry, rebecca, Caroline & Emma) who become terrified after the loss of one of their group (Edward) to death and strange shadows begin to appear on the wall of their home. It seems Henry had argued with Edward the night before Edward died. Now comes the first nightfall and none of them want to light athe candle in the house,afraid of what they may see. This story is considered one of the author's best for t...
Jan 19, 2025•31 min
The incredible end of Mary Shelley's 'Romeo and Juliet' story called Brother and Sister. Any ideas for a better title to this terrific classic piece? It deserves one! Leave us a review-Thanks!
Jan 12, 2025•40 min
A 16th century romance which takes place in Verona Italyin a setting involving feuding families much like those in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Although this was written before 'The Gilded Age' it was still a popular read at that time, and one of the stories that lifted Mary shelley to classic fame. For allour shows please visit www.bestof1001stories.com
Jan 05, 2025•37 min
