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Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads An Indigo Top 100 Book of 2021 "What a welcome debut. Young Eddie Toma's passage through the truly ugly parts of this world is met, like an antidote, or …

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it «a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. … I had hit …

"Euphemia's New Entertainment" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. Euphemia has great ideas of putting people at their ease, …

Ги де Мопассан - крупнейший французский новеллист, мастер рассказа с неожиданной концовкой. "Едва ли был другой такой писатель, столь искренно считавший, что все благо, весь смысл жизни — в женщ…

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Ma…

"The Boscombe Valley Mystery", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sher…

"A Report to an Academy" (German: «Ein Bericht für eine Akademie») is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to be…

John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed «K.K.K.» with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving…

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way int…

"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the tenth of the twelve stories collected in The Adven…

The Swing of the Pendulum is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: The landlady knocked at the door. – «Come in,» said Viola. – «There is a letter for you,» said the landlady, «a specia…

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame de Paris is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI. The gypsy Esmeralda …

This story was first published in Quartette, the Christmas Annual of the Civil and Military Gazette for 1885, which included four stories by the nineteen-year-old Kipling with other items of pros…

A Case of Identity is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and is the third story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story revolves around the …

Germans at Meat is a short story by Katherine Mansfield: Bread soup was placed upon the table. «Ah,» said the Herr Rat, leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, «that is what I need. …

"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the ninth of the twelve stories collected in Th…

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite dur…

The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite dur…

"The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit" is a Story by G. K. Chesterton. First appeared in Harper's Weekly (May 28 & June 4, 1904) «Cherub» Swinburne is asked to investigate the…

The new managing director of Schemes Ltd. has an elegant London office and a theatrically dressed assistant. However Bones, as he is better known, is bored. Luckily there is a slump in the shippi…