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Classic Reader: Authors: John Banim

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author John Banims including the full text of the short story "The Rival Dreamer."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Maurice Baring

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Maurice Baring including the full text of 25 short stories.
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Classic Reader: Authors: Jane Barlow

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Jane Barlow including the full text of the short story "A Lost Recruit."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Mary Beaumont

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Mary Beaumont including the full text of the short story "The Revenge of Her Race."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Sir Walter Besant

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Sir Walter Besant including the full text of the short story "Quarantine Island."
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Classic Reader: Authors: Miss Mitford

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features the author Miss (Mary Russell) Mitford including the full text of the short story "Tajima".
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Classic Reader: "After the Race" by James Joyce

For Students 9th - 10th
"After the Race" is a short story by the Irish author James Joyce. In it, we see the themes of money, status, class, politics, and paralysis.
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Classic Reader: Israel Zangwill

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the complete text of two short stories by novelist, playwright, and Zionist leader, Israel Zangwill: "A Rose of the Ghetto" and "The Woman Beater."
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Classic Reader: "The Background" by H. H. Munro

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Background" by H. H. Munro also known as Saki.
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Classic Reader: "Bad Medicine" by Andy Adams

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "Bad Medicine" by Andy Adams.
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Classic Reader: "The Bag" by H. H. Munro

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Bag" by H. H. Munro, also known as Saki.
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Classic Reader: "The Balking of Christopher" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Balking of Christopher" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
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Classic Reader: "Balthazar's Daughter" by James Branch Cabell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "Balthazar's Daughter" by James Branch Cabell
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Classic Reader: "The Bands of Ballyguttery" by George A. Birmingham

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Bands of Ballyguttery" by George A. Birmingham. What happened to the band instruments?
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Classic Reader: "Bank Holiday" by Katherine Mansfield

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "Bank Holiday" by Katherine Mansfield. The streets are bustling with people-musicians, children, psychics, and salesmen-because a bank holiday means that everyone is out of the house, enjoying the...
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Classic Reader: "The Banshee" by Anonymous

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Banshee" by an unknown author. Of all the superstitions prevalent amongst the natives of Ireland, there is none which has been so cordially cherished as the belief in the existence of the...
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Classic Reader: "A Bargain With Peg Leg" by Frank Norris

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "A Bargain with Peg-Leg" by Frank Norris which describes Bunt McBride's account of Peg-Leg Smith, a shameful one-legged offender.
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Classic Reader: "Barker's Luck" by Bret Harte

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "Barker's Luck" by Bret Harte, a truly American author.
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Classic Reader: "The Baron's Quarry" by Egerton Castle

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Baron's Quarry" by Egerton Castle.
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Classic Reader: "The Baroness" by Guy De Maupassant

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Baroness" by Guy de Maupassant, a French author
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Classic Reader: "The Beast in the Cave" by H. P. Lovecraft

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Beast in the Cave" by H. P. Lovecraft, an American horror writer.
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Classic Reader: "The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, a famous Russian writer.
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Classic Reader: "The Burial of the Guns" by Thomas Nelson Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "The Burial of the Guns" by Thomas Nelson Page; it is possible that it is part of a longer piece by the author.
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Classic Reader: "Barring the Way" by Ralph Henry Barbour

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "Barring the Way" by Ralph Henry Barbour, an American author.