Third Batch of 22 Stories Added

Twenty-two stories were added as a group on July 7-9, 2025.

Included here are:

• the (year of publication)
• the word count, and
• the approximate reading times (silent/aloud)

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• "Araby" by James Joyce (1914) 2,330 words, 12/18minutes
• "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville (1853) 14,460 words, 1:12/1:50 hours:minutes
• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) 8,790 words, 44/68minutes
• "The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen (1837) 1,870 words, 10/15 minutes
• "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde (1888) 3,470 words, 17/27 minutes
• "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway (1927) 1,460 words, 7/11 minutes
• "Iron Hans" from Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812) 3,210 words, 16/25 minutes
• "The Lady or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton (1882) 2,700 words, 14/21 minutes
• "Landing in Luck" by William Faulkner (1919) 2,180 words, 11/17 minutes
• "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov (1887) 1,870 words, 9/14 minutes
• "The Man who Never Laughed During the Rest of His Days" from The 1,001 Nights (1882) 2,530 words, 13/19 minutes
• "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (1915) 22,010 words, 1:50/2:50 hours:minutes
• "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902) 3,940 words, 20/30 minutes
• "The Open Window" by Saki (1911) 1,210 words, 6/9 minutes
• "A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin (1897) 1,900 words, 10/15 minutes
• "The Pardoner's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400/1904) 1,620 words, 10/16 minutes
• "The Pied Piper" by Robert Browning (1842) 2,080 words, 10/16 minutes
• "The Rocking Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence (1923) 5,580 words, 28/43 minutes
• "The Three Hermits" by Leo Tolstoy (1884) 2,610 words, 13/20 minutes
• "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett (1886) 4,260 words, 21/33 minutes
• "The Wooing of Olwen" from The Mabinogion (c 1100; trans c 1840) 3,530 words, 18/27 minutes
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) 6,140 words, 31/47 minutes