Literature

Who has not cursed postmasters, who have not quarreled with them? Who, in a moment of anger, has not demanded from them the fatal book…

In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated…

The other day I saw a wedding… But no! I would rather tell you about a Christmas tree. The wedding was superb. I liked it…

Long ago in the village of Chelm, there lived the happiest people on Earth. The people of Chelm were happy because they were wise at…

The Blessed Goat (A Russian Tale) Once upon a time a poor old man and woman-owned a goat. They loved their goat as if he…

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-…

A School Story by M.R. James Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. ‘At our school,’ said A., ‘we had a…

In the department of but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and,…

The sun was just rising as the small tub-like steamer, or, to be more correct, steam-barge, the Bulldog, steamed past the sleeping town of Gravesend…

He loved. According to his passport, he was called Max Z. But as it was stated in the same passport that he had no special…

“I didn’t want to bring it,” said Captain Gubson, regarding somewhat unfavorably a grey parrot whose cage was hanging against the mainmast, “but my old…

I When Lazarus rose from the grave, after three days and nights in the mysterious thraldom of death, and returned alive to his home, it…