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The Veteran
In Poems
Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adver…
Chapter 2
In The Metamorphosis (version 3)
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in…
Version 4
In Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)
'Twas the Night Before Christmas is a beloved poem that captures the magic and anticipation of Christmas Eve. Written by Clement Clarke Moor…
Crowded
In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1
This first volume gathers short pieces of American wit and humor, bringing together tales, observations, and anecdotes by writers including …
John Henry in a Street Car
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
This first volume of The Wit and Humor of America gathers 53 short stories and poems by 44 authors, offering a varied introduction to Americ…
Camp Cunningham
In Trolley Folly
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…
"Showin' Off"
In Whilomville Stories
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his …
The Sentence
In Unprofessional Tales
A collection of stories exploring the psychological and paranormal, some stories bordering on the macabre. - Summary by Luke Castle
Robot Nemesis
In Short Science Fiction Collection 087
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
A Foreign Office Romance
In Short Mystery Story Collection 007
Delve into the enigmatic world of mystery with this captivating collection of short stories. Featuring 16 intriguing tales from various auth…
Rob's Navy
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 27, May 4, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Our Post-Office Box
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 33, June 15, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Because of the Dollars, Chapter 2
In Within The Tides
A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…
29 - Reform Through Reading
In Seeing Things at Night
Seeing Things at Night is a delightful collection of humorous short stories by Heywood Broun that captures the absurdities of everyday life.…
An Upset Price
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
Author's Note
In Typhoon and Other Stories
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
In The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection published in Mansfield's lifetime, is clearly livin…
The Norman Knight
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Double Standard
In Short Science Fiction Collection 060
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Chapter VIII: The Beginning of the Reading Time
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …