Cross Currents
by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered
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by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered
by Edith Wharton THE DUCHESS AT PRAYER From the loggia, with its vanishing frescoes, I looked down an avenue barred by a ladder of cypress-shadows
by W. W. Jacobs In the comfortable living-room at Negget’s farm, half parlour and half kitchen, three people sat at tea in the waning light
by O. Henry “The dispositions of woman,” said Jeff Peters, after various opinions on the subject had been advanced, “run, regular, to diversions. What a
by Rudyard Kipling Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide,By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried;Log in the reh-grass, hidden and alone;Bund where
by Louisa May Alcott Ma began it by calling her rosy, dimpled, year-old baby Cupid, and as he grew up the name became more and
by O. Henry The United States of America, after looking over its stock of consular timber, selected Mr. John De Graffenreid Atwood, of Dalesburg, Alabama,
by Mark Twain “For sale, for the benefit of the Fund for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Firemen, a Curious Ancient
by Mark Twain It is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler
by F. Scott Fitzgerald In the millennium an educational genius will write a book to be given to every young man on the date of
by H. P. Lovecraft I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the
by James Baldwin A young man whose name was Pyth´i-as had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like. For this offense he was
Dan Fitzgerald Explains by Banjo Paterson The circus was having its afternoon siesta. Overhead the towering canvas tent spread like a giant mushroom on a
by Mark Twain One of the saddest things that ever came under my notice (said the banker’s clerk) was there in Corning, during the war.
Daniel and Little Dan’l by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman THE Wise homestead dated back more than a century, yet it had nothing imposing about it
by D. H. Lawrence I Mr Lindley was first vicar of Aldecross. The cottages of this tiny hamlet had nestled in peace since their beginning,
Darkness by Anton Chekhov A YOUNG peasant, with white eyebrows and eyelashes and broad cheekbones, in a torn sheepskin and big black felt overboots, waited
David Swan by Nathaniel Hawthorne We can be but partially acquainted even with the events which actually influence our course through life, and our final
by Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Deacon Pitkin’s Farm (1875) is a great reading selection for Thanksgiving, about a son’s willingness to give up
by Henry van Dyke “A day off” said my Uncle Peter, settling down in his chair before the open wood-fire, with that air of complacent
Dear Annie by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ANNIE HEMPSTEAD lived on a large family canvas, being the eldest of six children. There was only one
Dead Men’s Shoes by Kate Chopin It never occurred to any person to wonder what would befall Gilma now that “le vieux Gamiche” was dead.
by P. G. Wodehouse I The room was the typical bedroom of the typical boarding-house, furnished, insofar as it could be said to be furnished
by Gertrude Atherton Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the desolation of her surroundings. She and the man