Literature

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell When Martha Hale opened the storm-door and got a cut of the north wind, she ran back…

I ANDREY VASSILITCH KOVRIN, who held a master’s degree at the University, had exhausted himself, and had upset his nerves. He did not send for…

Johnnycake’s Journey (A British and American Folk Tale) Once, an old man, an old woman, and a little boy lived in a house at the…

The garden like a lady fair was cut That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut;…

Fool’s Gold (A Sufi Tale) Long ago, a hermit was walking through a bleak desert land when he happened to spot a cave. The hermit…

There is a small square near the monastery of the Holy Birth which is called Trubnoy, or simply Truboy; there is a market there on…

Flight of the Hippogriff (An Italian Concoction) Long ago, high atop the tallest peak of the Pyrenees Mountains, there lived a magician. He lived in…

What ho! What ho! This fellow is dancing mad! He hath been bitten by the Tarantula. All in the Wrong. Many years ago, I contracted…

I I remember, when I was a high school boy in the fifth or sixth class, I was driving with my grandfather from the village…

The garden like a lady fair was cut, That lay as if she slumbered in delight, And to the open skies her eyes did shut.…

It happened not so long ago in the Moscow circuit court. The jurymen, left in the court for the night, before lying down to sleep…

ASTOUNDING NEWS BY EXPRESS, VIA NORFOLK! The Atlantic Crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason’s Flying Machine! Arrival at Sullivan’s Island, near…