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by Robert Barr The room was large, but with a low ceiling, and at one end of the lengthy, broad apartment stood a gigantic fireplace,

by Mary Roberts Rinehart I did not hear the maiden’s name; but in my thought I have ever since called her “Gentle Hand.” What a

by William Makepeace Thackeray Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is,

George Thurston by Ambrose Bierce George Thurston was a first lieutenant and aide-de-camp on the staff of Colonel Brough, commanding a Federal brigade. Colonel Brough

by Charlotte M. Yonge 1455 I. ‘Why, Lady dear, so sad of cheer? Hast waked the livelong night?’‘My dreams foreshow my children’s woe, Ernst bold

by James Baldwin When George Wash-ing-ton was quite a little boy, his father gave him a hatchet. It was bright and new, and George took

by Anthony Trollope Of all the spots on the world’s surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt,

by Rudyard Kipling Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry. When the girls came out to play Georgie Porgie ran

by O. Henry If you should chance to visit the General Land Office, step into the draughtsmen’s room and ask to be shown the map

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Take my word for it, there is no such thing as an ancient village, especially if it has seen better

by Ellis Parker Butler No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all of

by O. Henry IN GILT letters on the ground glass of the door of room No. 962 were the words: “Robbins & Hartley, Brokers.” The

by Mary Roberts Rinehart I The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect–and they move the earth. To some He allots

by Leo Tolstoy In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his

by Sarah Orne Jewett The train stopped at a way station with apparent unwillingness, and there was barely time for one elderly passenger to be

by Charles Dickens At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier,

by Mark Twain NOTE.–No experience is set down in the following letters which had to be invented. Fancy is not needed to give variety to

by T.S. Arthur “I suppose you will all be off to Saratoga, in a week or two,” said Uncle Joseph Garland to his three nieces,

Gone Astray by Anton Chekhov A COUNTRY village wrapped in the darkness of night. One o’clock strikes from the belfry. Two lawyers, called Kozyavkin and

by Dorothy Parker The satire “Good Souls” originally appeared in Vanity Fair Magazine in June of 1919. The work is a biting character study, wherein

by W. W. Jacobs “Jealousy; that’s wot it is,” said the night-watchman, trying to sneer– “pure jealousy.” He had left his broom for a hurried