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by Washington Irving A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from

by Oscar Wilde The Devoted Friend was first published in 1888 as part of Oscar Wilde’s collection of children’s stories entitled The Happy Prince and

by Honore de Balzac There once was a good old canon of Notre Dame de Paris, who lived in a fine house of his own,

by Rabindranath Tagore At a time, when my unpopularity with a part of my readers had reached the nadir of its glory, and my name

by Bret Harte In another chronicle which dealt with the exploits of “Chu Chu,” a Californian mustang, I gave some space to the accomplishments of

by Charlotte M. Yonge B.C. 339 The spirit of self-devotion is so beautiful and noble, that even when the act is performed in obedience to

by H.G. Wells Some business had detained me in Chancery Lane nine in the evening, and thereafter, having some inkling of a headache, I was

by F. Scott Fitzgerald I John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades—a small town on the Mississippi River—for

by Guy de Maupassant SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE PRETTY AND CHARMING GIRLS BORN, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of

by M.R. James The sale-room of an old and famous firm of book auctioneers in London is, of course, a great meeting-place for collectors, librarians,

by Guy de Maupassant He was dead–the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate whose irreproachable life was a proverb in all the courts

by O. Henry The original news item concerning the diamond of the goddess Kali was handed in to the city editor. He smiled and held

by Edith Wharton It was on an impulse hardly needing the arguments he found himself advancing in its favor, that Thursdale, on his way to

The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Ambrose Bierce One morning in July, 1854, a planter named Williamson, living six miles from Selma, Alabama, was

by H.H. Munro (SAKI) “Charwoman” is a dated English term that was used to designate a woman employed to clean houses or offices. In a

by O. Henry The spectacle of the money-caliphs of the present day going about Bagdad-on-the-Subway trying to relieve the wants of the people is enough

by W. W. Jacobs The old man was dead, and his son Edward reigned in his stead. The old man had risen from a humble

by Arthur Quiller-Couch The room was mean, but not without distinction. The meanness lay in lime-washed walls, scant fittings, and uncovered boards; the distinction came

The Doctor by Anton Chekhov IT was still in the drawing-room, so still that a house-fly that had flown in from outside could be distinctly

by Ivan S. Turgenev One day in autumn on my way back from a remote part of the country I caught cold and fell ill.

by Guy de Maupassant We lived formerly in a little house beside the high road outside the village. He had set up in business as

by Arthur Quiller-Couch From Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches. There are said to be many vipers on the Downs above the sea; but

by Aesop A Dog had learned to carry his master’s dinner to him every day. He was very faithful to his duty, though the smell

by Ivan S. Turgenev “But if one admits the possibility of the supernatural, the possibility of its participation in real life, then allow me to