Friday, April 18th, 2014
by Aleksandr Kuprin (1914) It was five o’clock on a July afternoon. The heat was terrible. The whole of the huge stone-built town breathed out heat like a glowing furnace. The glare of the white-walled house was...
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by Caroline Chesebro (ca. 1896) The little hamlet called Juniper, lying at the foot of the Granite Hills, had contributed men out of all proportion to the State and country—twenty ministers to the pulpit, a judge to...
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by Saki Sylvia Seltoun ate her breakfast in the morning-room at Yessney with a pleasant sense of ultimate victory, such as a fervent Ironside might have permitted himself on the morrow of Worcester fight. She was scarcely...
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by H. Rider Haggard The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa....
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by Alphonse Daudet I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding, especially because M. Hamel had said that he would question us on participles, and I did not know...
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by F. Marion Crawford I have often heard it scream. No, I am not nervous, I am not imaginative, and I never believed in ghosts, unless that thing is one. Whatever it is, it hates me almost...
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by Nikolay V. Gogol In the department of —, but it is better not to mention the department. The touchiest things in the world are departments, regiments, courts of justice, in a word, all branches of public...
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by Margaret Crosby At four o’clock on a September afternoon Vestal Street, Nantucket, is curiously quiet. The square white houses stand on either side of the sandy road. The lowering sun light is beginning to cast...
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by Jack London It was because she had broken with Billy that Loretta had come visiting to Santa Clara. Billy could not understand. His sister had reported that he had walked the floor and cried all night....
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by D. H. Lawrence There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet...
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