Short Stories
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Sam Shepard [Shepard, Sam]

VINCE: Boy! This is amazing. This is truly amazing. (Keeps moving around.) What is this anyway? Am I being punished here or what? Is that it? Some kind of banishment? ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-09 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

See "My friend the Policeman," or "On Going a Journey," or "The Deceased"—this last is perhaps the high-water mark of the book. To vary the figure, this essay dips its ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

That is all.” “Terse and to the point,” remarked Holmes, stretching his long, thin legs towards the fire. “There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society papers ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-01 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

The butler at Ennismore Gardens informed Sacheverell, when he arrived, that Muriel was, as he supposed, visiting the house, though for the moment out to lunch. Sacheverell waited, and presently ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

* * * MY DEAREST MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH,--Today Thedora came to me with fifteen roubles in silver. How glad was the poor woman when I gave her three of them! I ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

II. WHEN, PUNCTUALLY AT TEN minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself anew to the difficult process of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

He was pretty certain as he slipped out quietly into the street that he should find it shut and locked, for he knew the door well, and had so rarely ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

Time long ago) And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odour went away. III. Wanderers in that happy valley ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

- III - “I LOOKED AT HIM, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley,di as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1927-01-01 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

Lancelot dismissed the man from his thoughts. His whole mind now was concentrated on the coming interview with Angela. For he had decided that the only thing to do was ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Breakfast at Tiffany's [Tiffany's, Breakfast at]

I went straight upstairs, got the bird cage, took it down and left it in front of her door. That settled that. Or so I imagined until the next morning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:O. Henry

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 6 Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-08 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

VIII When Edith came out into the clear blue of the May night she found the Avenue deserted. The windows of the big shops were dark; over their doors were ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]

Quick quick my possessions. Quiet, quiet, twice, I have time, lots of time, as usual. My pencil, my two pencils, the one of which nothing remains between my huge fingers ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )