Short Stories
epub |eng | 2015-11-10 | Author:W. W. Jacobs

CAPTAIN ROGERS A man came slowly over the old stone bridge, and averting his gaze from the dark river with its silent craft, looked with some satisfaction toward the feeble ...
( Category: Short Stories March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Simon Brett [Brett, Simon]

7 I WAS rather annoyed to receive an email from the University of Hong Kong. They expressed no interest in publishing my work on the Pre-Raphaelites. This is obviously very ...
( Category: Short Stories March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

4 Ancestors MRS VALLANCE, AS she replied to Jack Renshaw who had made that rather silly remark of his about not liking to watch cricket matches, wished that she could ...
( Category: Short Stories March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The Gazette, ” he replied, “has not entered, I fear, into the unusual horror of the thing. But dismiss the idle opinions of this print. It appears to me that ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:D. H. Lawrence

THE SHADES OF SPRING I It was a mile nearer through the wood. Mechanically, Syson turned up by the forge and lifted the field-gate. The blacksmith and his mate stood ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-01 | Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton [Chesterton, Gilbert Keith]

was literal as well as metaphorical. It did not merely mean that the Glengyles sought for wealth; it was also true that they literally gathered gold; they had a huge ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Bret Harte [Harte, Bret]

( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Jorge Volpi

( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan]

“Not an hour,” said the suitor, coolly. “Well, then,” said Douw, “I am content; it is a bargain.” “Then sign at once,” said Vanderhausen; “I am weary.” At the same ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

* * * #xa0; DEATH AND THE CHILD I The peasants who were streaming down the mountain trail had in their sharp terror evidently lost their ability to count. The ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

In some such cool hope he descended the marble steps, disturbing faintly the sleep of two silky Russian wolfhounds at the bottom, and set off along a walk of white ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-08 | Author:G.K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G.K.]

#xa0; SEVEN — The Purple Wig MR EDWARD NUTT, the industrious editor of the Daily Reformer, sat at his desk, opening letters and marking proofs to the merry tune of ...
( Category: Murder March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Nelly Reifler

Starting the new term at school, David pretended to try harder. He’d put a look of concentration on his face in class. He’d write reports with long, complicated sentences using ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Maryles Shankman

“Oh, you know. Everyone lives happily ever after. When the prince finds out he’s been fooled, he tricks the fake princess into coming up with her own punishment.” She was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Davy Rothbart

NEVERGLADE MY GRANDPA DIED on Valentine’s Day; two years later, when February rolled back around, my grandmother was sounding pretty lonely and down, so I figured I’d go stay with ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )