#3 OF 432 LISTENER FAVS THE MAN ON THE TRAIN by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Our #7 top listener favorite, The Man On The Train, tells the humorous story of a grandma who, despite her children's worries about pickpockets and conmen, boards the train to visit a sick relative. Aboard the train, grandma befriends a nice man who is sitting next to her.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone to the best of one thousand one classic short stories of tales. |
| 0:05.0 | Number seven of 447 short stories here is titled The Man on the Train |
| 0:11.0 | authored by Lucy Maud Montgomery and it has a monster following here as |
| 0:16.6 | well as Ms Montgomery's other short stories of which we've done more than 15. |
| 0:21.2 | She is one of my top two female classic authors and I've |
| 0:26.0 | done two of her Anne of Green Gable stories at 1001 Greatest Love and Life stories as |
| 0:30.9 | well. Montgomery was Canadian and I've never read a better writer and |
| 0:36.1 | storyteller who could describe home life and people in a more entertaining manner |
| 0:41.3 | always leaving you with a smile at the end. |
| 0:45.0 | Just a few days ago, I came across her short autobiography, where she explains the people |
| 0:49.9 | and places which inspired her stories. |
| 0:52.4 | It's called the Alpine Path by |
| 0:54.1 | L. M. Montgomery and I'll share it one day soon. Anyway, the man on the train is |
| 0:59.8 | about a grandma who needs to visit a sick relative and insist upon taking the train |
| 1:04.7 | despite her kids wishes and worries that she might become a victim of a pickpocket or |
| 1:09.3 | con man. So Grandma takes the train and meets a very interesting man. |
| 1:16.0 | Here's our number seven listener favorite, |
| 1:19.0 | The Man on the Train by Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
| 1:22.0 | If you enjoy this story, please leave a review. |
| 1:25.0 | And you can even ask me to follow up soon with the Alpine Path. |
| 1:29.0 | Remind me. |
| 1:30.0 | Thanks. The Welcome back everyone to 1001 one classic short stories and tales. |
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