The Sister-Years by Nathanial Hawthorn Last night, between eleven and twelve o’clock, when the Old Year was leaving her final footprints on the borders of Time’s empire, she found herself in possession of a few spare moments, and sat down?of all places in the world?on the steps of our new city-hall. The wintry moonlight showed…
Month: April 2011
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield
Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield Although it was so brilliantly fine?the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques?Miss Brill was glad that she had decided on her fur. The air was motionless, but when you opened your mouth there was just a faint chill,…
The Country of the Blind by H. B. Wells
Three hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snows of Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies that mysterious mountain valley, cut off from the world of men, the Country of the Blind. Long years ago that valley lay so far open to the world that men might come…
The Last Leaf by O’Henry
The Last Leaf by O’Henry In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called “places.” These “places” make strange angles and curves. One street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with…
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the Appennines, not…
A Painful Case by James Joyce
A Painful Case by James Joyce MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious. He lived in an old sombre house and from his windows…
The Adventure of The Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Sidney Paget The Adventure of The Noble Bachelor by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the…
A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway
The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots by George Pope Morris
The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots by George Pope Morris Look into those they call unfortunate, And, closer view’d, you’ll find they are unwise.?Young. Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any foolish shift: Tis haste Makes waste: Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand Holds none at all,…