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by Joseph Conrad “And that be hanged for a silly yarn. The boatmen here in Westport have been telling this lie to the summer visitors

by Anthony Trollope (Published in the London Review, 2 March 1861) The prettiest scenery in all England–and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I

The Party by Anton Chekhov AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husband’s name-day was being celebrated,

by Frank Norris “Well, m’son,” observed Bunt about half an hour after supper, “if your provender has shook down comfortable by now, we might as

by O. Henry For some months of a certain year a grim bandit infested the Texas border along the Rio Grande. Peculiarly striking to the

by Charles W. Chesnutt “The Passing of Grandison” is featured in the African-American Library, a collection of literary works by African-American authors, with additional references

by Andy Adams In the early part of September, ’91, the eastern overland express on the Denver and Rio Grande was held up and robbed

by Jack London “It is the judgment of this court that you vamose the camp . . . in the customary way, sir, in the

by Charlotte M. Yonge B.C. 430 There was trembling in Greece. ‘The Great King’, as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose

by Sarah Orne Jewett Mrs. Mercy Crane was of such firm persuasion that a house is meant to be lived in, that during many years

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “I want you to help me in getting up a dramatic entertainment of some sort,” said the Baroness to Clovis. “You

by Guy de Maupassant We never dreamed of such good fortune! The son of a provincial bailiff, Jean Marin had come, as do so many

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Crefton Lockyer sat at his ease, an ease alike of body and soul, in the little patch of ground, half-orchard and

by Edith Wharton She was very pretty when I first knew her, with the sweet straight nose and short upper lip of the cameo-brooch divinity,

by Aesop A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun. “Look,”

by Aesop The Peacock, they say, did not at first have the beautiful feathers in which he now takes so much pride. These, Juno, whose

by Jack London For two days I toiled in the prison-yard. It was heavy work, and, in spite of the fact that I malingered at

by Arthur Quiller-Couch I have thought fit in this story to alter all the names involved and disguise the actual scene of it: and have

by Guy de Maupassant From April to the end of May, before the Parisian visitors arrive, one sees, all at once, on the little beach

by Ray Bradbury Up and down, back and forth, up and down. First the quick flite skyward, gradually slowing, reaching the pinnacle of the curve,

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) Octavian Ruttle was one of those lively cheerful individuals on whom amiability had set its unmistakable stamp, and, like most of

by Leo Tolstoy And he said to Jesus: Remember me, Lord, when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him: Verily, I say

by W.C. Morrow I had sent in all haste for Dr. Rowell, but as yet he had not arrived, and the strain was terrible. There

by Charles Dickens Chapter I—The Island of Silver-Store It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that I,