A FIGHT WITH A CANNON by Victor Hugo
La vieuville was suddenly cut short by a cry of despair, and a the same time a noise was heard wholly unlike any other sound. The cry and sounds came from within
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THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished
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To Build a Fire by Jack London Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the
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The Lady With The Dog by Anton Chekhov
The Lady With The Dog by Anton Chekhov It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front:
Continue readingThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County By Mark Twain is one of Twain’s most prized stories.
Continue readingTHE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!
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French frigate La Boudeuse I On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of
Continue readingThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee
Continue readingThe Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.
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