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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…

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 little stone Saint occupied a retired niche in a side aisle of the old cathedral. No one quite remembered who he had been, but…

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,…

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 by Katherine Mansfield WHEN dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent the children a doll’s…

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 by Anton Chekhov It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen…