THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I
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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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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 (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.
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Continue readingA WHITE HERON. Sarah Orne Jewett I. The woods were already filled with shadows one June evening, just before eight
Continue readingTHE SELFISH GIANT Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the
Continue readingThe Black Veil One winter’s evening, towards the close of the year 1800, or within a year or two of
Continue readingTHE REAL THING CHAPTER I When the porter’s wife, who used to answer the house-bell, announced “A gentleman and a
Continue readingZadig the Babylonian THE BLIND OF ONE EYE FRAN?OIS MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE There lived at Babylon, in the reign
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