Story

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One autumn I went to spend the hunting season with some friends in a chateau in Picardy. My friends were fond of practical jokes. I…

“I’m writing a poem on Peace,” said Reginald, emerging from a sweeping operation through a tin of mixed biscuits, in whose depths a macaroon or…

Chapter I In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket, and said: “Here are gifts. Take one, leave the others. And…

The Story of Keesh KEESH lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea, was the head man of his village through many and…

It was some time after the Dorking Hen had come off the nest with her little brood that the mother of the Shanghai Chickens began…

The Last Fight in the Coliseum As the Romans grew prouder and more fond of pleasure, no one could hope to please them who did…