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The Journal of Julius Rodman by Edgar Allan Poe
epub |eng | 1840-02-15 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

Chapter 5 April 10, 1792. The weather was now again most delicious, and revived our spirits exceedingly. The sun began to have power, and the river was quite free of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
The Woman with the Flying Head and Other Stories by Kurahashi Yumiko
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kurahashi Yumiko

* * * * The original poem composed by Fujiwara no Teika reads “Hana no ka no/ kasumeru tsuki ni/ akugarete/ yume mo sadakani/ mienu koro kana” (Shoku go shūi ...
( Category: Asian March 11,2020 )
Dutch Courage and Other Stories by Jack London
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

TO REPEL BOARDERS "No; honest, now, Bob, I'm sure I was born too late. The twentieth century's no place for me. If I'd had my way——" "You'd have been born ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories by E. M. Forster
epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:E. M. Forster [Forster, E. M.]

OTHER KINGDOM I “Quem, whom; fugis, are you avoiding; ab demens, you silly ass; habitarunt di quoque, gods too have lived in; silvas, the woods.’ Go ahead!” I always brighten ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law
epub |eng | 2019-09-15 | Author:William Law

CHAPTER XII PRAYER Concerning that part of devotion which relates to times and hours of prayer. Of daily early prayer in the morning. How we are to improve our forms ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth March 11,2020 )
Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER III - THE BOY AT MUGBY I am the boy at Mugby. That’s about what I am. You don’t know what I mean? What a pity! But I think ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 1859-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

Chapter IX. He had heard all— all. He did not actually enter the room, but stood at the door, pale with excitement and fury. Zina looked at him in amazement. ...
( Category: Psychological March 10,2020 )
The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:E.W. Hornung [Hornung, E.W.]

WILFUL MURDER Of the various robberies in which we were both concerned, it is but the few, I find, that will bear telling at any length. Not that the others ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths March 10,2020 )
Treasure of the Spanish Civil War by Serge Pey; & Donald Nicholson-Smith
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Serge Pey; & Donald Nicholson-Smith

* * * — The Director had perfected his method. To each boy whom he selected as a future guard, he entrusted a puppy. The child was supposed to feed ...
( Category: War March 10,2020 )
The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Grant Allen [Allen, Grant]

III. Some days later Niaz went on an expedition again, "on the Czar's service for the protection of the frontier," and took more than half his able-bodied Tartars on the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 10,2020 )
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. Keene
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:H. G. Keene

CHAPTER V. A.D. 1786-88. Gholam Kadir - Pillars of the State - Siege of Raghogarh - British policy - Measures of Sindhia - Rajput Confederacy - Battle of Lalsaut - ...
( Category: Short Stories March 10,2020 )
ABSOLUTION by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

IV. Table of Contents They walked without speaking except when Carl Miller acknowledged automatically the existence of passers-by. Rudolph’s uneven breathing alone ruffled the hot Sunday silence. His father stopped ...
( Category: Short Stories March 10,2020 )
A Primer for Cadavers by Ed Atkins
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Ed Atkins [Ed Atkins]

SILT The sensational presence of a pair of plump wormlings lying in spastic twists either side of my brain. Dumb, molluscan aerials picking up the occasional low, static whip through ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
Stories and Novels by Saki
epub |eng | 2014-11-26 | Author:Saki [Saki]

CHAPTER XII: THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS THE train bearing Yeovil on his visit to Torywood slid and rattled westward through the hazy dreamland of an English summer landscape. Seen from the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 10,2020 )
The Laws of Evening by Mary Yukari Waters
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Mary Yukari Waters

Saburo did what he could. He ate well, three meals a day. He cut back drastically on his work hours. He curtailed his social life, although on occasion he lightened ...
( Category: Short Stories March 10,2020 )

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