The Explorer
Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant from the village of Chelm traveled to Warsaw. When he returned home, he talked endlessly of his journey,…
Literature
The Locket
I One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment…
The Nisse and the Christmas Pudding
The Nisse and the Christmas Pudding (A Tale From Norway) Some of you may have seen a Nisse. You would have recognized him if you…
A Retrieved Reformation
A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers and escorted him to the…
A Blackjack Bargainer
The most disreputable thing in Yancey Goree’s law office was Goree himself, sprawled in his creakv old arm-chair. The rickety little office, built of red…
The Necklace
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a…
A Doctor’s Visit
The Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs’ factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently…
Fat And Thin
Two friends one a fat man and the other a thin man met at the Nikolaevsky station. The fat man had just dined in the…
Salt Of The Earth
Everyone in China knows that the phoenix, or feng-huang, as it is known, is a beautiful bird, with its tail as bright as a peacock’s…
A Defenseless Creature
In spite of a violent attack of gout in the night and the nervous exhaustion left by it, Kistunov went in the morning to his…
The Saint And The Goblin
The little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral. No one quite remembered who he had been, but…
A Newspaper Story
AT 8 a.m. it lay on Giuseppi’s news-stand, still damp from the presses. Giuseppi, with the cunning of his ilk, philandered on the opposite comer,…
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