The Phantom Rickshaw
May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. …Evening Hymn. One of the few advantages that India has over England…
Literature
A Little Hero
At that time I was nearly eleven, I had been sent in July to spend the holiday in a village near Moscow with a relation…
The Pale Man
A queer little tale, about the eccentric behavior of a strange guest in a country hotel… I have not yet met the man in No.…
The Shoemaker and The Devil
The Shoemaker and The Devil by Anton Chekhov It was Christmas Eve. Marya had long been snoring on the stove; all the paraffin in the…
A Faint Heart
Under the same roof in the same flat on the same fourth storey lived two young men, colleagues in the service, Arkady Ivanovitch Nefedevitch and…
The Imaginary Thief (Inspired by an Old Chinese Anecdote)
The Imaginary Thief (Inspired by an Old Chinese Anecdote) Long ago, in a place not very different from the place where you live, people were…
Hudden, Dudden and Donald O’Neary (A Tale From Ireland)
Hudden, Dudden and Donald O’Neary (A Tale From Ireland) Once upon a time, a farmer named Donald O’Neary lived on a tiny strip of land…
The Beast With Five Fingers
I When I was a little boy I once went with my father to call on Adrian Borlsover. I played on the floor with a…
Aloha Oe
Aloha Oe by Jack London Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. The great transport lay with steam up, ready to…
The Tell-Tale Heart
True! Nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my…
The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes
Part 1 Towards the middle of the eighteenth century there lived in the Province of Massachusetts a widowed gentlewoman, the mother of three children, by…
The Shadows On The Wall
“Henry had words with Edward in the study the night before Edward died,” said Caroline Glynn. She was elderly, tall, and harshly thin, with a…
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