... what “Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district,” said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as familiarly and patronizingly mentioned as the name of the hangman is, according to the latest examples.
Epps was known at Marksville, having frequent occasion to visit that place during the session of the courts, and the fear entertained by Mr. Northup's adviser was, that intelligence would be conveyed to him in the night, giving him an ...
Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
This book contains the complete novels and novellas of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the chronological order of their original publication.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Golden Deer Classics. a tableros de ajedrez, se había agitado varias veces como saludándome con un signo mudo y cariñoso. Y me saludaba a mí; no era posible que me equivocase... Estaba solo, completamente solo, ...
James Joyce, Golden Deer Classics. l'enivrement qui s'emparait de lui... Mais l'enivrement passe. Il répéta ce qu'elle venait de lui dire, l'appliquant à lui-même : Qu'est-ce que je dois faire ? L'instinct du célibat le mettait en garde ...
The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off.
shouted back Herbert, bounding over the breast works and giving chase, all the rest following, some to aid him in recovering the lost standard, the others to help Max to keep out of his reach. Herbert was agile and fleet of foot, ...
L. Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Baum, Golden Deer Classics. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF SANTA CLAUS LYMAN FRANK BAUM Copyright © 2017 by Lyman Frank Baum All rights reserved.
From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses and cabriolets as desired." In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to ...
I do not deny I ate my share ... for I will say, Miss Baker, I never knew anyone who could fry mackerel like you ... but I did not eat four pieces." "Miss Dew dear," said Susan earnestly, laying down her knitting and gazing imploringly ...
"I haven't a paper cutter good enough to open letters containing large cheques." So she bought the papercutter, which the reasoning mind would have called an extravagance. When she held it in her hand, she had a flash of a picture of ...
The old man said that what a man wanted that was down was sympathy, and the judge said it was so; so they cried again. And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: "Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; ...
Then the old man he signed a pledge—made his mark. The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that. Then they tucked the old man into a beautiful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got ...
[19] And the prophet cries out, How long, slow of heart? why do ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Know this, that the Lord hath magnified His Holy One. He cries out, How Long? He cries out, Know this: and I so long, not knowing, ...
This collection contains: • The Willows by Algernon Blackwood • The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers • The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James • Ghost Stories of an ...
The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller.
The Last of the Mohicans is the most popular of Jame Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. This 18th century adventure story is a classic look at the relationship between Hawkeye and his loyal Mohican friends.
The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s.
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story.