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Short stories

Levels: A2–C2 · 72 lessons

Section 1

A2 · Lessons 1–44

  1. 1. The last bus home

    5 sentences · Level A2 · 4 min

  2. 2. A note on the fridge

    5 sentences · Level A2 · 4 min

  3. 3. The broken vase

    5 sentences · Level A2 · 4 min

  4. 4. The first snow

    5 sentences · Level A2 · 4 min

Section 2

B1 · Lessons 5–2420

  1. 5. The Gift of the Magi

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  2. 6. The Ransom of Red Chief

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  3. 7. To Build a Fire

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  4. 8. The Lady, or the Tiger?

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  5. 9. A Pair of Silk Stockings

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  6. 10. A Piece of Red Calico

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  7. 11. A Retrieved Reformation

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  8. 12. A White Heron

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  9. 13. After Twenty Years

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  10. 14. From the Cabby's Seat

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  11. 15. Keesh

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  12. 16. Love of Life

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  13. 17. Luck

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  14. 18. Mammon and the Archer

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  15. 19. One Thousand Dollars

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  16. 20. Pigs Is Pigs

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  17. 21. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  18. 22. The Californian's Tale

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  19. 23. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  20. 24. The Cop and the Anthem

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

Section 3

B1 · Lessons 25–4016

  1. 25. The Furnished Room

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  2. 26. The Last Leaf

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  3. 27. The Law of Life

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  4. 28. The Open Boat

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  5. 29. The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  6. 30. The Return of a Private

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  7. 31. The Romance of a Busy Broker

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  8. 32. The Story of an Eyewitness

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  9. 33. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  10. 34. The wrong umbrella

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  11. 35. Lost in the market

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  12. 36. The missed train

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  13. 37. The old photograph

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  14. 38. The wrong house

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  15. 39. A nervous interview

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

  16. 40. The lost dog

    5 sentences · Level B1 · 5 min

Section 4

B2 · Lessons 41–6424

  1. 41. A Horseman in the Sky

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  2. 42. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  3. 43. Doctor Heidegger’s Experiment

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  4. 44. Feathertop

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  5. 45. Paul's Case

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  6. 46. The Ambitious Guest

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  7. 47. The Birthmark

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  8. 48. The Boarded Window

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  9. 49. The Cask of Amontillado

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  10. 50. The Devil and Tom Walker

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  11. 51. The Fall of the House of Usher

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  12. 52. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  13. 53. The Line of Least Resistance

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  14. 54. The Masque of the Red Death

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  15. 55. The Purloined Letter

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  16. 56. The Tell-Tale Heart

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  17. 57. The night shift

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  18. 58. An unexpected letter

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  19. 59. The violin in the window

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  20. 60. The lighthouse keeper

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  21. 61. A wallet on the bus

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  22. 62. The night bus

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  23. 63. The garden competition

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

  24. 64. The forgotten key

    5 sentences · Level B2 · 5 min

Section 5

C1 · Lessons 65–684

  1. 65. The lighthouse keeper's ledger

    5 sentences · Level C1 · 6 min

  2. 66. A letter that arrived late

    5 sentences · Level C1 · 6 min

  3. 67. The cartographer of small streets

    5 sentences · Level C1 · 6 min

  4. 68. What the clockmaker left behind

    5 sentences · Level C1 · 6 min

Section 6

C2 · Lessons 69–724

  1. 69. The cartographer who erased the sea

    5 sentences · Level C2 · 6 min

  2. 70. The translator and the untranslatable

    5 sentences · Level C2 · 6 min

  3. 71. The bridge that nobody crossed

    5 sentences · Level C2 · 6 min

  4. 72. The clockmaker of the lower quarter

    5 sentences · Level C2 · 6 min