Literature

When Caroline Noble’s friends learned that Raymond d’Esquerre was to spend a month at her place on the Sound before he sailed to fill his…

Vanka by Anton Chekhov VANKA ZHUKOV, a boy of nine, who had been for three months apprenticed to Alyahin the shoemaker, was sitting up on…

Rogue Meets Rogue (A Tale From Nigeria) Once upon a time, a rogue who lived in Kano wanted to make his fortune, but he owned…

Out in front of the cemetery stood a white horse and a covered wagon. The horse was not tied, but she stood quite still, her…

King of the Trees (A Jewish Tale) Once upon a time, the forest trees gathered to select a king. After careful thought, they chose the…

I heard this story sitting on the rear platform of an accommodation freight that crawled along through the brown, sun-dried wilderness between Grover Station and…

The Bears (A Greek Myth) Long, long ago, on a glittering spring day, the mighty god Zeus looked down from his Olympian heights and spied…

In Acton there were two churches, a Congregational and a Baptist. They stood on opposite sides of the road, and the Baptist edifice was a…

Near Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute’s shanty. North, east, south, stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rust-red grass…

If you grind castor sugar with an equal quantity of chlorate of potash, the result is an innocent-looking white compound, sweet to the taste, and…

Every fortress has one traitor within its walls; the Schloss Eltz had two. In this, curiously enough, lay its salvation; for as some Eastern poisons…

I had intended heading this chapter “Eclipse Customs amongst Barbarous Nations,” but in these days it is dangerous to talk of barbarians or to speak…