In the bleak night, beneath the stretching limbs of the shadowy elm, a shot rings out -- and the ...
'Man proposes and God disposes.' There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought...
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an of...
There be islands in the Central Sea, whose waters are bounded by no shore and where no ships come...
'The constant tradition of the Palace says that Mary discharged any measures to be taken to remov...
'What did he die of?' I inquired. 'Some kind of sickness,' says the captain. 'It appears it took ...
Quoth the translator, 'This translation of the Nibelungenlied is published with the simple purpos...
When Dr. Stevens finds a young man sitting alone in Phildelphia, he takes pity on him and invites...
'Well, Corporal Westerburg,' Doctor Henry Harris said gently, 'just why do you think you're a pla...
Finally published in its entirety in 1911, the definitions found therein are as apt today as they...
Though the great French novelist, poet and dramatist Victor Hugo's work has gone in and out of fa...
According to Yeats the fear gorta walks the earth during times of famine, seeking alms from passe...