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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) 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) Once upon a time, a farmer named Donald O’Neary lived on a tiny strip of land…

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 by Jack London Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. The great transport lay with steam up, ready to…

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…

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…

“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…

Part I Nowhere did so many people pause as before the little picture-shop in the Shtchukinui Dvor. This little shop contained, indeed, the most varied…

When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind to go somewhere to read by himself. He feared the attractions…

Tio Conejo Flies to Heaven (A Tale From South America) Once upon a time Uncle Rabbit, who is called Tio Conejo, was searching in the…

Blessings on the Innocent (A Jewish Tale) Long ago, a traveler journeyed all over the known world, seeking to learn all he could about the…