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In the ordinary course of a commercial education, in New England, boys are transferred from school to the merchant's desk at the age of fourteen or fifteen. When I had reached my fourteen…

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysteriou…

First published in Macmillan's Magazine for December 1889 , as «Great Krishna Mulvaney», in Harper's Short Stories in September 1890, and collected in The Courting of Dinah Shadd and ot…

On the night before a British military parade for the Amir of Afghanistan, the army's working animals – mule, camel, horse, bullock, elephant – discuss what they do in battle and how they fe…

This novel depicts the fall and rise of the Primrose family, presided over by the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the abduction of a beautiful …

"The Adventure of the Dying Detective", in some editions simply titled «The Dying Detective» (first published 1913), is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Cona…

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men", a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ran…

"The Sandman" (German: Der Sandmann, 1816) is a short story written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann. It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke (The Night Pieces). The…

Many years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on…

Many years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on…

"The Daughters of the Late Colonel" is a 1920 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the London Mercury in May 1921. In bed, Constantia suggests giving her late father…

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. Plot summary: Th…

In The Sister of the Baroness by Katherine Mansfield we have the theme of appearance, identity, self-importance, class and escape. Taken from her In a German Pension collection the story is narra…

"Champagne bubbly and engaging throughout…a jaunty, jolly good listen" raves Publishers Weekly about Larkin's narration of The Secret Adversary. Now the award-winning narrator is back w…

"Champagne bubbly and engaging throughout…a jaunty, jolly good listen" raves Publishers Weekly about Larkin's narration of The Secret Adversary. Now the award-winning narrator is back w…

"Champagne bubbly and engaging throughout…a jaunty, jolly good listen" raves Publishers Weekly about Larkin's narration of The Secret Adversary. Now the award-winning narrator is back w…

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient …

"Dunstone's Dear Lady" by H. G. Wells is a short essay. H. G. Wells once different, humorous social satire and ironic. The story of Dunstone is so slight, so trivial in its cardinal inc…

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. – The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 yea…

The story was published in the Civil and Military Gazette on April 30 1886 under the title «Section 420, I.P.C.» (Indian Penal Code), in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in …