2009 - 2014
Story Classics at Noon
12 noon Monday - Friday

Start date, story title and author
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2009
Starting 3/23/09 "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois
On 4/9/09 "Tobermory" and "The Quest" by H.H. Munro
On 4/13/09 "A Psychological Shipwreck" and "A Baby Tramp" by Ambrose Bierce
On 4/14/09 "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On 4/15/09 "Ice Palace" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On 4/17/09 "The Shadow and the Flash" by Jack London
On 4/20/09 "To Build a Fire" by Jack London
On 4/21/09 "Goliah" by Jack London
On 4/22/09 "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" by Leo Tolstoy
On 4/23/09 "Cheese" and "The Man Who Thinks Backwards" by G.K. Chesterton
On 4/24/09 "Taming The Bicycle" by Mark Twain
Starting 4/27/09 "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On 5/15/09 "The Danger of Lying in Bed" by Mark Twain
Starting 5/18/09 "Extracts from Adam's Diary" by Mark Twain
Starting 5/20/09 "Eve's Diary" by Mark Twain
Starting 5/26/09 "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis
Starting 7/13/09 "Dubliners" by James Joyce until Aug. 4.
Starting 8/5/09 "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy until 8/27.
Starting 8/28/09 "Master and Man" by Leo Tolstoy until 9/10.
On Tue 9/15/09 "The Dilettante", a short story by Edith Wharton.
On Wed 9/16/09 "The Fulness of Life", a short story by Edith Wharton.
On Thur 9/17/09 "The Quicksand", a short story by Edith Wharton.
On Fri 9/18/09 "Long Distance", a short story by Edna Ferber.
On Mon 9/21/09 "A Baby Tramp", a short story by Ambrose Bierce.
On Tue 9/22/09 "Esme", a short story by H.H. Munro.
On Wed 9/23/09 "Quest" and "The Open Window", short stories by H.H. Munro.
On Thur 9/24/09 "The Signal-Man", a short story by Charles Dickens.
On Fri 9/25/09 "The Great French Duel", a short story by Mark Twain.
On Mon 9/28/09 "The Birth Mark", a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On Tue 9/29/09 "Young Goodman Brown", a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On Wed 9/30/09 "Duplicity of Hargraves", a short story by O. Henry.
On Thur 10/1/09 "The Last Leaf", a short story by O. Henry.
On Fri 10/2/09 "Markheim", a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
On Mon 10/5/09 "The Children of the Zodiac" Rudyard Kipling short story.
Starting 10/6/09 until Mon 10/19/09 "The Tragedy of the Korosko" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
On Tue 10/20/09 "A Ghost Story", a ghost story by Mark Twain.
On Wed 10/21/09 "Laura", a ghost story by H.H. Munro (Saki).
On Thur 10/22/09 "Phantasmagoria", a ghost story by Lewis Carroll.
On Fri 10/23/09 "The Trial for Murder", a ghost story by Charles Dickens.
On Mon 10/26/09 "The Red Room", a ghost story by H. G. Wells.
On Tue 10/27/09 "The Return of Imray", a ghost story by Rudyard Kipling.
On Wed 10/28/09 "The Withered Arm", a ghost story by Thomas Hardy.
On Thur 10/29/09 "A Haunted House", a ghost story by Virginia Woolf.
On Fri 10/30/09 "The Oval Portrait", a ghost story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Starting Mon 11/2/09 "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain
On 12/21/09 "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
On 12/22/09 "Mr. Bluffs' Experiences of Holidays" by Oliver Bell Bunce.
On 12/23/09 3 short stories by R.L. Stevenson, Richmal Crompton & Robert Frost.
On 12/24/09 "Vera's First Christmas Adventure" by Arnold Bennett.
On Fri. 12/25/09 "The Gift of The Magi" by O. Henry.
On Mon 12/28/09 "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain resumed.

2010
On 1/1/10 continuing "Following the Equator" by Mark Twain.
Starting 2/15/10 "Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.
Starting 3/22/10 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll 'til 4/6.
Starting 4/7/10 "Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain 'til 4/29.
Starting 4/30/10 "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
Starting 6/30/10 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain.
Starting 8/31/10 "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum.
On 9/24/10 "The Silver Mirror", a ghost story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
On 9/27/10 "The Man Who Thinks Backwards" by G.K. Chesterton.
On 9/28/10 "Cheese" and "The Three Kinds of Men" by G.K. Chesterton.
On 9/29/10 "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On 9/30/10 "Duplicity of Hargraves" by O. Henry
On 10/1/10 "The Last Leaf" by O. Henry
Starting 10/4/10 "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starting 11/8/10 "Dracula" by Bram Stoker (cast of readers).
On 12/15/10 "A Christmas Mystery: the Story of Three Wise Men" by W.J. Locke.
On 12/16/10 "The Errors of Santa Claus" & "Merry Christmas" by Stephen Leacock.
On 12/17/10 "The Thin Santa Claus" by Ellis Parker Butler.
Starting 12/27/10 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.

2011
On 1/3/11 continuing "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.
From 2/21-24/12 short SciFi stories by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut & A. E. Nourse
On 2/21/12 "The Diamond Maker" by H.G. Wells
On 2/22/11 "In The Year 2889" by Jules Verne.
On 2/23/11 "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
On 2/24/11 "The Link" by Alan Edward Nourse.
Starting 2/28/11 "Work: A Story of Experience" by Louisa May Alcott.
Starting 3/28/11 "Little Men" by Louisa May Alcott.
Starting 4/26/11 "Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy" by Mark Twain.
From 5/4-6/11 "Meisterschaft" by Mark Twain.
On 5/9 "My First Lie, and How I Got out of it", a short story by Mark Twain.
Starting 5/10/11 "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" by Mark Twain.
On 5/16-17/11 an appendix from "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain.
On 5/18/11 "About Play-Acting" by Mark Twain.
On 5/19/11 "Travelling With A Refomer" by Mark Twain.
On 5/20/11 "Diplomatic Pay and Clothes" by Mark Twain.
Starting 5/23/11 "Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis.
On 7/15/11 a scifi short story "From an Unseen Censor" by Rosel George Brown.
Starting 7/18/11 "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.
On 8/10/11 the conclusion to "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne.
On 8/11-12/11 "My Debut as a Literary Person" by Mark Twain.
Starting 8/15/11 "Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X" by Victor Appleton.
Starting 8/29/11 5 short stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Starting 9/5/11 "Doctor Ox's Experiment" by Jules Verne.
starting 9/12/11 poems from "Cornhuskers" by Carl Sandburg.
Starting 9/19/11 "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.
Starting 10/3/11 "War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells.
Starting 10/24/11 "The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells.
On 11/10-11/11 "The Country of the Blind" by H.G. Wells.
Starting 11/14/11 "Ann Veronica" by H.G. Wells.
From 12/12/11 to 12/20/11 "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus".
From 12/21/11 to 12/23/11 "Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs" by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott.
Starting 12/26/11 "The Gilded Age" by Mark Twain & Chrs Warner

2012
On 1/2/12 continuing "The Gilded Age" by Mark Twain & Chrs Warner.
On 2/10/12 a short story "A Dog's Tale" by Mark Twain.
Starting 2/13/12 "American Notes for General Circulation" by Charles Dickens.
Starting 3/12/12 "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Starting 4/19/12 "The Return of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Starting 6/4/12 "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starting 6/22/12 "The Beasts of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 7/20/12 "Son of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 10/8/12 the short stories of "Jungle Tales of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
From 10/24/12 'til Halloween: ghost stories by Dickens, Hawthorne & Doyle.
On 10/24-26/12 "Three Ghost Stories" by Charles Dickens.
On 10/29/12 "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
On 10/30-31/12 "The Captain of the Polestar" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Starting 11/1/12 "Tarzan the Terrible" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
On 11/22-23/12 a short story, "The Trimmed Lamp," by O. Henry.
From 11/26/12-12/7/12 more chapters of "Tarzan the Terrible" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
From 12/10/12 until Christmas "Christmas, A Story" by Zona Gale.
Starting 12/26/12 "The Seven Poor Travellers" by Charles Dickens.
Starting 12/31/12 "Heidi" by Johanna Spyri.

2013
Starting 1/31/13 "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Starting 2/26/13 "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Starting 3/25/13 "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
On 5/23/13 "A Cosmopolitan in A Cafe" by O. Henry.
On 5/24/13 "The Cop and the Anthem" by O. Henry.
Starting 5/27/13 "Anne of the Island" by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Starting 6/19/13 "Ultima Thule" by Mack Reynolds.
Starting 7/1/13 "The Land that Time Forgot" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 7/15/13 "The People that Time Forgot" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 7/29/13 "Out of Time's Abyss" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 8/12/13 "The Sky Is Falling" by Lester del Rey.
On 8/23/13, a short sci fi story, "Image of the Gods" by Alan Edward Nourse.
Starting 8/26/13 "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Starting 9/16/13 "The Gods of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
On 10/16-18/13 "Police Operation" by H. Beam Piper, read by Mark Nelson.
Starting 10/21/13 "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells, read by Mark Nelson.
Starting 11/4/13 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor HUGO.
On 12/24/13 "Shadow: A Christmas Story" by Harry Stillwell Edwards.
On 12/25/13, a short story, "Polkadot Pancakes" by Christine Lavin.

2014
Starting 1/13/14 "The Railway Children" by E. Nesbit.
Starting 1/31/14 "The Story of the Treasure Seekers" by E. Nesbit.
Starting 2/17/14 "Creatures of the Abyss" by Murray Leinster.
Starting 3/3/14 "Operation Terror" by Murray Leinster
Starting 3/17/14 "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" by Hugh Lofting.
On 3/31/14 - 4/3/14 "Oomphel in the Sky" by H. Beam Piper.
On 4/4/14 "Some Words with a Mummy" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Starting 4/7/14 "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
Starting 5/19/14 "Persuasion" by Jane Austen.
Starting 6/23/14 "The Princess and the Goblin" by George MacDonald.
Starting 7/14/14 "The Card" by Arnold Bennett, read by Andy Minter.
Starting 7/30/14 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.
Starting 8/15/14 "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne
Starting 9/5/14 "The Lancashire Witches" by Harrison Ainsworth
On 11/27-28/14 "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" by Louisa May Alcott.
Starting 12/1/14 "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London.
Starting 12/10/14 "Peace On Earth, Good-Will To Dogs" by Eleanor H. Abbott.
On 12/16/14 "Alice's Christmas Tree" by Edward Everett Hale.
Starting 12/17/14 "Christmas Waits In Boston" by Edward Everett Hale.
On 12/22-23/14 Christmas stories by L. Frank Baum.
On 12/24/14 "A Christmas Mystery: the Story of Three Wise Men" by William J. Locke.
On 12/25/14 "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.
Starting 12/26/14 "Everybody's Lonesome" by Clara E. Laughlin.