Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE MARRIAGE OF LIT-LIT When John Fox came into a country where whisky freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year, he ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

THE POETIC PRINCIPLE IN speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we ...
( Category: Horror January 21,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2001-09-30 | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

His conception and portrayal of the old-time Southern colonel, with his absurd grandiloquence, his eccentric garb, his quaint idioms and phrases, his moth-eaten pride of family, and his really kind ...
( Category: Humorous January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

* * * Matthew Insists on Puffed SleevesToC Matthew was having a bad ten minutes of it. He had come into the kitchen, in the twilight of a cold, grey ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-09-30 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE DREAM OF DEBS I awoke fully an hour before my customary time. This in itself was remarkable, and I lay very wide awake, pondering over it. Something was the ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

* * * The Dissipation of Miss PonsonbyToC We hadn’t been very long in Glenboro before we managed to get acquainted with Miss Ponsonby. It did not come about in ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

ALL GOLD CANYON It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

Dear Tom: I hear there's one of Uncle Sam's grayhounds going through you, and that means that we'll catch him inside of a couple of hours, maybe. Now, I want ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

* * * That night Nora lay beside her sisters in the tiny room that looked out on the harbour. The younger girls slept soundly, but Nora kept awake to ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

The asseveration of the marine was interrupted by Griffith, whose blood had sensibly cooled, and whose generous feelings were awakened in behalf of his comrades, now that his own fate ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * II The Carstyles belonged to the all-the-year-round Millbrook of paper-mills, cable-cars, brick pavements and church sociables, while Mrs. Vance, the aunt with whom Vibart lived, was an ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * XXII WHEN Amherst woke, the next morning, in the hotel to which he had gone up from Lynbrook, he was oppressed by the sense that the hardest ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1996-10-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

BROWN WOLF She had delayed, because of the dew-wet grass, in order to put on her overshoes, and when she emerged from the house found her waiting husband absorbed in ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XVII. "Sit still, and hear the last of our sea sorrow."--Shakspeare The weight of the tempest had been felt at that hapless moment when Earing and his unfortunate companions ...
( Category: Biographical January 21,2016 )