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Bracebridge Hall by Washington Irving
epub |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

The Oxonian offered at once to have his fortune told, and the girl began with the usual volubility of her race; but he drew her on one side near the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
The Faith of Men by Jack London
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 )
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 6 by Edgar Allan Poe
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 )
Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry
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 )
Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 )
The Strength of the Strong by Jack London
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 )
Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 )
Moon-Face by Jack London
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 )
Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
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 )
Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 )
Short Stories, 1904 by Lucy Maud Montgomery
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
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 )
The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton
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 )
Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London
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 )
Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * V * * * "IT won't do--oh, he let him down as gently as possible; but it appears it simply won't do." Doctor Bob imparted the ineluctable ...
( Category: Ghosts January 21,2016 )

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