音频下载 Our story today is called The Lady in Black . It was written by Eleanor H. Porter . Here is Faith Lapidus with the story . The house was very still . In the little room over the porch , the Lady in Black sat alone . Near her , a childs w...

音频下载 Hotel in Nashville Our story today is called A Municipal Report. It was written by O. Henry and first published in 1904. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville , Tennessee -- a slow , gray...

音频下载 Edmund Quinn's sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe is on display at The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Our story today is called The Purloined Letter . It was written by Edgar Allan Poe . Poe is generally known for his horror stories . This...

音频下载 Athenaise went away one morning to visit her parents , ten miles back on the Bon Dieu River in Louisiana . She did not return in the evening , and Cazeau , her husband , was worried . Cazeau expressed his worries to his servant , Flicit,...

音频下载 Today we complete the story of Benito Cereno , written by Herman Melville . As we told you in earlier parts of our story , rebel slaves seized the ship San Dominick off the coast of Chile . They killedmany of its officers and crew . The...

音频下载 Actors in Benito Cereno Today, we continue the story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. Last week , we told how African slaves on a Spanish ship rebelled in seventeen ninety-nine . They killed most of the Spanish sailors ....

音频下载 Our story todayis called Benito Cereno . It was written by Herman Melville . We tell the story in three parts . Here is Shep O' Neal with part oneof Benito Cereno . Captain Benito Cereno hurried aboard his ship . It was ready to sail . A...

音频下载 Champagne Today we complete the story Paul's Case. It was writtenby Willa Cather. Donna de Sanctis​ adapted it for VOA Learning English. Here is Kay Gallant with the story. Paul was a student with a lot of problems . He hated school ....

音频下载 Dropping the jumping frog Editor 's note : This story includes some of the informal dialect that Mark Twain liked to include in his writing . We have provided explanations of some of the expressions after the story . Our story is called...

音频下载 Civil War troops and cannon Our story today is called, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. The occurrence , or event , in our story takes place during the Civil War of the eighteen sixties between the Ame...