Literature

A Child’s Biography by Mark Twain John Clemens, Samuel’s father, was a farmer, merchant, and postmaster in a Missouri town, called Florida. His wife, Jane…

Richard Stone was nearly seventy-five years old when he died; his wife was over sixty, and his daughter Narcissa past middle age. Narcissa Stone had…

Between eight and nine o’clock in the morning. A dark leaden-colored mass is creeping over the sky towards the sun. Red zigzags of lightning gleam…

Who Will Riddle Me the How and Why? So questions one of England’s sweetest singers. The “How?” has already been told, after a fashion, in…

Robinson Carnes pilgrimmed along the country road between Sanderson and Elmville. He wore a shabby clerical suit, and he carried a rusty black bag which…

Dear Child, Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter, from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose…

“I think you ought to present that demand note of Uncle Abel’s for collection,” said James Lord. His old uncle Zenas sighed heavily. “I think…

A Dead Woman’s Secret by Guy de Maupassant The woman had died without pain, quietly, as a woman should whose life had been blameless. Now…

The subject of discussion at the Impressionists’ Club was a picture, Circe’s Swine, by a young German painter; a grotesque study showing the enchantress among…

A Chameleon by Anton Chekhov The police superintendent Otchumyelov is walking across the market square wearing a new overcoat and carrying a parcel under his…

Renard Says a Prayer (A French Tale) You’ve probably heard the tales of Renard, the sly fox who loved food and who also loved to…

For years the sisters, Miss Melissa Abbot and Mrs. Sarah Drew, had lived in peace and concord, not in the same house, but in adjoining…