WITCHES’ LOAVES by O’Henry
WITCHES’ LOAVES by O’Henry Miss Martha Meacham kept the little bakery on the corner (the one where you go up
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EVELINE by James Joyce
EVELINE by James Joyce She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against
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REGINALD IN RUSSIA by Saki Reginald sat in a corner of the Princess’s salon and tried to forgive the furniture,
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THE SISTERS by James Joyce THERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after
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THE BET by Anton Chekhov
IT WAS a dark autumn night. The old banker was walking up and down his study and remembering how, fifteen years before, he had given a party one autumn evening
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THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I
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THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM
Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores
Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit.
Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro,
Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent.
The Black Veil by Charles Dickens
The Black Veil One winter’s evening, towards the close of the year 1800, or within a year or two of
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TOBERMORY by Saki It was a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite season when partridges are
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Problems with formatting click here. The Queens of Spades by Alexsandr S. Pushkin I There was a card party at
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