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1,000 Nights
Ray Bradbury read one short story, one poem, and one essay every night for a thousand nights, and called it the thing he would never have given up.
This is that program, kept loosely. One piece a night, cycling through the three, published here at nine in the evening. Everything on these pages is in the public domain and every piece links back to the text it came from.
42 nights so far.
The Tell-Tale Heart
Short story
Night 0001
Edgar Allan Poe, 1843
Ozymandias
Poem
Night 0002
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818
Self-Reliance
Essay
Night 0003
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841
The Lady with the Dog
Short story
Night 0004
Anton Chekhov, 1899
London
Poem
Night 0005
William Blake, 1794
Of Cannibals
Essay
Night 0006
Michel de Montaigne, 1580
The Necklace
Short story
Night 0007
Guy de Maupassant, 1884
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Poem
Night 0008
William Wordsworth, 1807
Of Friendship
Essay
Night 0009
Francis Bacon, 1612
The Story of an Hour
Short story
Night 0010
Kate Chopin, 1894
Kubla Khan
Poem
Night 0011
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1816
On Going a Journey
Essay
Night 0012
William Hazlitt, 1822
The Gift of the Magi
Short story
Night 0013
O. Henry, 1905
Ode to a Nightingale
Poem
Night 0014
John Keats, 1819
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Essay
Night 0015
Charles Lamb, 1822
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Short story
Night 0016
Ambrose Bierce, 1890
The Road Not Taken
Poem
Night 0017
Robert Frost, 1916
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Essay
Night 0018
Thomas De Quincey, 1823
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Short story
Night 0019
Herman Melville, 1853
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Poem
Night 0020
T. S. Eliot, 1917
Walking
Essay
Night 0021
Henry David Thoreau, 1862
Young Goodman Brown
Short story
Night 0022
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1835
Hope is the thing with feathers
Poem
Night 0023
Emily Dickinson, 1891
The Fallacy of Success
Essay
Night 0024
G. K. Chesterton, 1909
To Build a Fire
Short story
Night 0025
Jack London, 1908
Modern Fiction
Essay
Night 0027
Virginia Woolf, 1925
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Poem
Night 0026
Alfred Tennyson, 1854
The Open Window
Short story
Night 0028
Saki, 1911
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Poem
Night 0029
Alfred Edward Housman, 1896
The Will to Believe
Essay
Night 0030
William James, 1897
Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Short story
Night 0031
M. R. James, 1904
The Second Coming
Poem
Night 0032
William Butler Yeats, 1920
The Decay of Lying
Essay
Night 0033
Oscar Wilde, 1889
The Mantle
Short story
Night 0034
Nikolai Gogol, 1842
O Captain! My Captain!
Poem
Night 0035
Walt Whitman, 1865
Sweetness and Light
Essay
Night 0036
Matthew Arnold, 1869
The Yellow Wallpaper
Short story
Night 0037
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Poem
Night 0038
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions
Essay
Night 0039
Michel de Montaigne, 1580
Youth
Short story
Night 0040
Joseph Conrad, 1898
from The Prelude: Book First
Poem
Night 0041
William Wordsworth, 1850
The Indian Jugglers
Essay
Night 0042
William Hazlitt, 1821