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A stirring poem about reaching forty — a rousing celebration of the robust middle years, by Henry Lawson.
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A stirring poem about reaching forty — a rousing celebration of the robust middle years, by Henry Lawson.
A powerful Henry Lawson poem about the strength of the forties.
A story about art, obsession, and the conflict between artistic truth and societal expectations in Tsarist Russia.
Chapter I of 'The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar' — Lupin is identified aboard the steamship La Provence and cornered by detective Ganimard. A classic gentleman-thief confrontation at sea.
Two lovers with very little money make impossible choices to buy each other the perfect Christmas gift.
In 'The Gift of the Magi', a young couple, Della and Jim, struggle financially but deeply love each other. In a selfless act, Della sells her long hair to buy a platinum chain for Jim's watch, while Jim sells his watch to buy Della a set of combs for her hair, highlighting the irony and depth of their love.
Across vast ages of human history, one question returns again and again as intelligence confronts entropy and the end of everything.
An ordinary family is offered three wishes and discovers the cost hidden inside every answered desire.
A borrowed diamond necklace opens the door to one glamorous night and a decade of ruin.
A fevered confession from a man determined to prove his sanity after a murder and the creeping rhythm that follows him into the dark.
A condemned man imagines one last impossible escape in the suspended instant before death.
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.
A Dutch-American villager drinks enchanted liquor with mysterious strangers in the Catskill Mountains, falls asleep for twenty years, and wakes to find the American Revolution has passed him by entirely.
The most merciful thing, in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
There was a steamer called The Lady with the Dog, and in it was travelling an interesting new face.
A superstitious schoolmaster in a secluded Dutch settlement encounters a legendary headless horseman on a desolate road near the old Dutch churchyard.
Andy and his mates set up camp in the Australian bush and decide to celebrate with a bang. They pack gunpowder into a kerosene tin with a length of fuse, planning nothing more dangerous than a satisfying explosion. But their idiot dog sees the hissing, sputtering fuse as the best retrieval opportunity of his life. What follows is one of Australian literature's most perfectly constructed pieces of comic chaos, as three men flee through the bush screaming at each other while a delighted retriever chases after them, convinced everyone is having the time of their lives.
A chilling prophecy of a world where humanity lives underground in individual cells, connected only through The Machine — a theme of technology, isolation, and conformity.
Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island, said Whitney. It's rather a mystery.
A polished social visit unravels when a young storyteller invents a tragedy with perfectly timed confidence.
Confined to a quiet room to recover, a woman begins to read a terrible life into the wallpaper that surrounds her.