Arts

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…

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,…

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 (A Tale From Norway) Some of you may have seen a Nisse. You would have recognized him if you…

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…

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 by Guy de Maupassant The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a…

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…

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…

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…

Affidavit This is a written statement given on oath before a person of authority, such as a magistrate, a notary public, or a solicitor who…

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…