Classic and Contemporary Stories
I am sitting in my house in the country and it rains. Before my eyes the hills fall suddenly away and there are the flat plains and beyond the plains the city. An hour ago the old man of the house in the forest went past my door and the little dog was not with him.
Continue readingThe Mass of Shadows By ANATOLE FRANCE This tale the sacristan of the church of St. Eulalie at Neuville d’Aumont
Continue readingMud Road to Passchendaele by Douglas W. Culham, 1917 The Bowmen By ARTHUR MACHEN It was during the Retreat of
Continue readingSOLANGE: DR. LEDRU’S STORY OF THE REIGN OF TERROR Leaving l’Abbaye, I walked straight across the Place Turenne to the
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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
Continue readingTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I
Continue readingThe Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne By Anthony Trollope (London Review, 2 March 1861) The prettiest scenery in all England—and
Continue readingDuring the Exhibition of 1857, I was invited to be present at the opening of one of the mummy cases in the collection of Egyptian antiquities, and at the unwrapping of the mummy it contained.
Continue readingPortrait of the Painter’s Daughter Anna Catharina A DAUGHTER OF THE LODGE by GEORGE GISSING For a score of years
Continue readingA WHITE HERON. Sarah Orne Jewett I. The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening, just before eight
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