Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1921-01-01 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

Drunk A MANUFACTURER called Frolov, a handsome dark man with a round beard, and a soft, velvety expression in his eyes, and Almer, his lawyer, an elderly man with a ...
( Category: Russian March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

NOTES (*1) Upon the original publication of “Marie Roget,” the foot-notes now appended were considered unnecessary; but the lapse of several years since the tragedy upon which the tale is ...
( Category: Short Stories March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Deborah Manley

*** Annette Meakin’s excitement on reaching Moscow in 1900 is a delight; John Foster Fraser saw a very different place from the city we know today. The real Trans-Siberian journey ...
( Category: General Asia Travel Books March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-23 | Author:Val Mcdermid & Peter James

Grace opened his hands, expansively. “I’m all ears.” “Forensic gait analysis. That specialist guy, Haydn Kelly, we’ve used on previous cases. Maybe we should bring him in. He knows more ...
( Category: Suspense March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Cecil

The Good Turn It started at the Old Boys’ dinner. ‘Don’t tell me,’ said the prosperous-looking man. ‘I know. It’s Flintlock.’ ‘It’s Summers, as a matter of fact.’ ‘Of course. ...
( Category: Humor March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:W. W. Jacobs [Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)]

THE TEST PEBBLESEA was dull, and Mr. Frederick Dix, mate of the ketch Starfish, after a long and unsuccessful quest for amusement, returned to the harbor with an idea of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:Gerd de Ley

I watched a funeral go by and asked who was dead. A man said, ‘The fella in the box.’ —Dave Allen “ Times’ve changed, Veronica,” he said. “ I suppose ...
( Category: European March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Louisa May Alcott

“You mean to be good?” he said, after hesitating a minute. “Yes; to be good, and to love to be good. It is hard work sometimes, I know very well; ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-18 | Author:Clarence Nero

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( Category: Anthologies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

A Danger Averted Anne, walking home from the post office one Friday evening, was joined by Mrs. Lynde, who was as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and ...
( Category: Anthologies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert W. Chambers

“Oh, Jack, I do like your knickerbockers——” “And you shall wear your most gorgeous gown for me——” “Indeed I won’t,” she laughed, adding impulsively, “indeed I will—every day, if you ...
( Category: Occult March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-07-15 | Author:Kay Allenbaugh

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-22 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

It was sometimes pure joy Jeff would be talking to Melanctha, in these warm days he loved so much to wander with her. Sometimes Jeff would lose all himself in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kay Allenbaugh

( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J. M. Barrie [Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)]

'Ay, ay.' 'Vegetable?' asked Hook. 'No.' 'Mineral?' 'No.' 'Animal?' 'Yes.' 'Man?' 'No!' This answer rang out scornfully. 'Boy?' 'Yes.' 'Ordinary boy?' 'No!' 'Wonderful boy?' To Wendy's pain the answer that ...
( Category: Anthologies March 14,2020 )