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The loves of Pelleas and Etarre

The loves of Pelleas and Etarre

Zona Gale | Short Stories
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Ascension lilies were everywhere in our shabby drawing-room. They crowded two tables and filled a corner and rose, slim and white, atop a Sheraton cabinet. Every one had sent Pelleas and me a sheaf of the flowers—the Chartres, the Cleatams, Miss Willie Lillieblade, Enid, Lisa and dear Hobart...

All the Sad Young Men

All the Sad Young Men

F. Scott Fitzgerald | Short Stories
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing.

A Commentary

A Commentary

John Galsworthy | Short Stories
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The old man whose call in life was to warn the public against the dangers of the steam-roller held a small red flag in his remaining hand, for he had lost one arm. His brown face, through whose leathery skin white bristles showed, had a certain dignity; so had his square upstanding figure. And his...

Little Guzzy, and other stories

Little Guzzy, and other stories

John Habberton | Short Stories
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IT certainly was hard. What was the freedom of a country in which the voice of the original founders was spent in vain? Had not they, the “Forty” miners of Bottle Flat, really started the place? Hadn’t they located claims there?

Little Pilgrim at Aunt Lou's

Little Pilgrim at Aunt Lou's

Ella Rodman Church | Short Stories
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It was a long time after Christmas, and the snow and ice had all melted, and the trees were green again, and the flowers and birds had all come back.

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

A Warning to the Curious, and Other Ghost Stories

M. R. James | Short Stories
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The first of these stories was written for the library of the Queen’s Doll’s House, and was printed in the Book thereof; I gratefully acknowledge the gracious permission granted by Her Majesty to have it reprinted in this volume.

Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories

Prosper Mérimée's Short Stories

Prosper Mérimée | Short Stories
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The stories here presented are a selection from that brilliant series which shine like a constellation in French literature of the last century, blazoning Mérimée’s name across it. Each one has been tested and judged by successive generations of readers and critics. The authoritative...

Buds and Blossoms; or Stories for Real Children

Buds and Blossoms; or Stories for Real Children

A Lady | Short Stories
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Emily.—“And it would indeed have been silly to have minded, for the next day there was one for each of us, and the day after a great many; and the day after that, mama let us fill our little basket to surprise old nurse with a treat at our tea-time.—O when will it be summer again?”

Through the Crater's Rim

Through the Crater's Rim

A. Hyatt Verrill | Short Stories
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In this story the author of Beyond the Pole gives us another one of his amazing contributions to Scientifiction. Here we find a strange race living within an extinct volcanic crater somewhere in Central America.When it is remembered that only a few years ago an entirely new race was discovered by...

The Laughter of Slim Malone

The Laughter of Slim Malone

Max Brand | Short Stories
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Time has little to do with reputation in the far West, and accordingly the name of Slim Malone grew old in the region of Appleton, and yet the owner of the name was still young.