Category: Classic Authors

To the Man on the Trail by Jack London

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Every Writer

To the Man on the Trail

by Jack London

‘Dump it in!.’ ‘But I say, Kid, isn’t that going it a little too strong? Whisky and alcohol’s bad enough

After Twenty Years by O. Henry

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Every Writer

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.

What Christmas is as We Grow Older by Charles Dickens

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments

The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Every Writer

The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky I am a novelist, and I suppose I have made up this

Two Gallants by James Joyce

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Every Writer

The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets.

The Skylight Room by O.Henry

Posted on November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 by Every Writer

The Skylight Room by O.Henry First Mrs. Parker would show you the double parlours. You would not dare to interrupt

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.Henry

Posted on November 8, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to.

From the Cabby’s Seat by O.Henry

Posted on November 7, 2023December 7, 2023 by Every Writer

The cabby has his point of view. It is more single-minded, perhaps, than that of a follower of any other calling. From the high, swaying seat of his hansom

The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Every Writer

William Legrand, who discovers a peculiar gold-colored beetle while on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina. Legrand is obsessed with the scarab beetle and makes drawings of it. Later, Legrand receives a scrap of parchment paper with a cryptic coded

The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

Posted on October 23, 2023May 28, 2024 by Every Writer

“The Mark of the Beast” helped popularize and cement the werewolf as a staple figure in horror fiction. But many examples of werewolf literature existed for centuries prior to when Kipling published his story in 1890.