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…
Arts
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,…
The Romancers
It was autumn in London, that blessed season between the harshness of winter and the insincerities of summer; a trustful season when one buys bulbs…
The Doll’s House
The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield WHEN dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll’s…
Advice To Little Girls
Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated…
The Bet
The Bet by Anton Chekhov It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen…
The Reticence Of Lady Anne
Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or…
Work, Death And Sickness
This is a legend current among the South American Indians. God, say they, at first made men so that they had no need to work:…
An Idle Fellow
I am tired. At the end of these years, I am very tired. I have been studying in books the languages of the living and…
The Fawn’s Freedom
Long ago, in ancient China, the emperor of China, his servants, and his most trusted advisers set out into the forest for a hunt. The…
A Parricide
The lawyer had presented a plea of insanity. How could anyone explain this strange crime otherwise? One morning, in the grass near Chatou, two bodies…
The Whistle
To Madame Brillon I received my dear friend’s two letters, one for Wednesday and one for Saturday. This is again Wednesday. I do not deserve…
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