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by Mark Twain “I was sitting here,” said the judge, “in this old pulpit, holding court, and we were trying a big, wicked-looking Spanish desperado

by Bram Stoker When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind to go somewhere to read by himself. He

The Juene Premier by Anton Chekhov YEVGENY ALEXEYITCH PODZHAROV, the jeune premier, a graceful, elegant young man with an oval face and little bags under

by Franz Kafka Translation by Ian Johnston for Miss Felice B. It was a Sunday morning at the most beautiful time in spring. George Bendemann,

by Mark Twain [written about 1865] IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL. Even

by Henry van Dyke At long distance, looking over the blue waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in clear weather, you might think that

by Jack London The tourist women, under the hau tree arbour that lines the Moana hotel beach, gasped when Lee Barton and his wife Ida

by Charlotte M. Yonge 1347 Nowhere does the continent of Europe approach Great Britain so closely as at the straits of Dover, and when our

by Henry van Dyke So the first knight came to the Tower. Now his name was _Casse-Tout_, because wherever he came there was much breaking

by William Makepeace Thackeray BY MR. M. A. TITMARSH PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION: BEING AN ESSAY ON THUNDER AND SMALL BEER. Any reader who

by Robert W. Chambers The moving finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel

by Aesop A frisky young Kid had been left by the herdsman on the thatched roof of a sheep shelter to keep him out of

by James Baldwin Jami’ al-tawarikh, Hulagu and His Army, 1430 Jami’ al-tawarikh, Hulagu and His Army, 1430 Genghis Khan was a great king and warrior.

by Mark Twain Being the only true and reliable account ever published; taken from the Roman “Daily Evening Fasces,” of the date of that tremendous

by Louisa May Alcott Five and twenty ladies, all in a row, sat on one side of the hall, looking very much as if they

by James Baldwin There was once a king of Prussia whose name was Frederick William. On a fine morning in June he went out alone

by Rabindranath Tagore Once upon a time there was a lonely island in a distant sea where lived the Kings and Queens, the Aces and

by Jack London Acklen cabin, Klondike River, Yukon Territory, 1899 Acklen cabin, Klondike River, Yukon Territory, 1899 WALT MASTERS is not a very large boy,

by L. Frank Baum Published in L. Frank Baum’s collection, American Fairy Tales in 1901, about an old King who remained kind and generous, perhaps

by Jack London Big Alec had never been captured by the fish patrol. It was his boast that no man could take him alive, and

by Henry van Dyke There was an outcry at the door of the king’s great hall, and suddenly a confusion arose. The guards ran thither

by Henry van Dyke In the last remnant of Belgium, a corner yet unconquered by the German horde, I saw a tall young man walking

by Honore de Balzac There lived at this time at the forges of the Pont-aux-Change, a goldsmith whose daughter was talked about in Paris on

by Kate Chopin Adolph von Menzel, Living Room with the Artist’s Sister, 1847 Adolph von Menzel, Living Room with the Artist’s Sister, 1847 It was