Literature

Public opinion had been triumphantly vindicated. The insanity plea had broken down, and Albert Prior was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until he…

My name is Leicester; my father, Major-General Wyn Leicester, a distinguished officer of artillery, succumbed five years ago to a complicated liver complaint acquired in…

At five o’clock of the morning of the tenth of July, 1860, the front door of a certain house on Anchor Street, in the ancient…

The following events occurred on a small island of isolated position in a large Canadian lake, to whose cool waters the inhabitants of Montreal and…

Every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixed up with his destiny. While he is yet a baby lying in…

Mule’s Mysterious Illness (A Tale From Spain) Once upon a time, a mule lived on a farm in Spain. He worked hard in the fields,…

King of the Beasts (A Nigerian Tale) Once upon a time, Lion was King of the Beasts. Every day he chased the other creatures for…

It was eleven o’clock at night, and young Marriott was locked into his room, cramming as hard as he could cram. He was a “Fourth…

Mother Frog’s Storms (An Australian Legend) Long ago in Australia, there lived an enormous green frog. The people called her Quork-Quork. She lived peacefully for…

The scene is a conservatory. Luxuriant tropical plants are seen looming through a greenish aquarium twilight, punctuated here and thereby the surprising pink of several…

A Defenseless Creature by Anton Chekhov IN spite of a violent attack of gout in the night and the nervous exhaustion left by it, Kistunov…

“Yes,” she said, from her seat in the dark corner, “I’ll tell you an experience if you care to listen. And, what’s more, I’ll tell…