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by Mark Twain –[Being part of a chapter which was crowded out of “A Tramp Abroad.”– M.T.] There was as Englishman in our compartment, and

by Mark Twain As concerns tobacco, there are many superstitions. And the chiefest is this–that there is a STANDARD governing the matter, whereas there is

by Jack London There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of

by Guy de Maupassant THE NOON SUN POURED FIERCELY DOWN UPON THE FIELDS. They stretched in undulating folds between the clumps of trees that marked

by O. Henry There was a painless stage of incubation that lasted twenty-five years, and then it broke out on me, and people said I

by O. Henry “I never could hold my partner, Andy Tucker, down to legitimate ethics of pure swindling,” said Jeff Peters to me one day.

by W. W. Jacobs A small but strong lamp was burning in the fo’c’sle of the schooner Greyhound, by the light of which a middle-aged

by Washington Irving TO THE EDITOR OF THE KNICKERBOCKER. Sir, I have read with great satisfaction the valuable paper of your correspondent, Mr. HERMANUS VANDERDONK,

by Rudyard Kipling Rosicrucian subtletiesIn the Orient had rise;Ye may find their teachers stillUnder Jacatala’s Hill.Seek ye Bombast Paracelsus,Read what Flood the Seeker tells usOf

by Harriet Beecher Stowe “For every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.” “A very solemn

by Robert Barr In the ample stone-paved courtyard of the Schloss Grunewald, with its mysterious bubbling spring in the centre, stood the Black Baron beside

by W. W. Jacobs Mr. Purnip took the arm of the new recruit and hung over him almost tenderly as they walked along; Mr. Billing,

by James Baldwin It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago. In a vine-covered summer-house in a beautiful

by H. P. Lovecraft You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others

by James Joyce THE bell rang furiously and, when Miss Parker went to the tube, a furious voice called out in a piercing North of

Coronation by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Coronation first appeared in Harper’s Magazine (December, 1913). Jim Bennet had never married. He had passed middle life and

by Robert Barr It was nearly midnight when Count Konrad von Hochstaden reached his castle on the Rhine, with a score of very tired and

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Basset Harrowcluff returned to the home of his fathers, after an absence of four years, distinctly well pleased with himself. He

by M.R. James By what means the papers out of which I have made a connected story came into my hands is the last point

by Jack London “I did not think you would be so early.” “It is half past eight.” He looked at his watch. “The train leaves

by Harriet Beecher Stowe In a stately red house, in one of the villages of New England, lived the heroine of our story. She had

by Louisa May Alcott Painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880 Painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1880 Dear Merrys:–As a subject appropriate to the season, I

by Bram Stoker Mr Arthur Fernlee Markam, who took what was known as the Red House above the Mains of Crooken, was a London merchant,

by P. G. Wodehouse Katie had never been more surprised in her life than when the serious young man with the brown eyes and the