A DRAMA IN THE AIR by Jules Verne
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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 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 Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne By Anthony Trollope
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THE SELFISH GIANT Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the
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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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