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An a-level student carries a gloomy, sullen guilt in his soul which holds him off from other people. His only friend is an oak deep in the forest. But one autumn in the 1990s he cannot avoid meeting a young man with a dog who tries to bring him back to life gently. But...
I do not know which of us got into the carriage first. IndeedI did not know he was in the carriage at all for some time. It was the last train from London to a Midland town-a stopping train, an infinitely leisurely train, one of those trains which give you an...
During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment-in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear,...
The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed "the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned." Shakespeare instructed by delighting. His plays alone (leaving mere science out of the question), contain more actual wisdom than the whole...
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago thatI would have been feeling like thatI should have laughed at him;...
"You must give me a moment," said the old man, leaning back. Percy resettled himself in his chair and waited, chin on hand. It was a very silent room in which the three men sat, furnished with the extreme common sense of the period. It had neither window nor door; for...
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the...
In October last (1902), my friend 'Carruthers' visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of the adventure described in these pages. Till then I had only known as much as the rest of his friends, namely, that he had...
There are towns over which time seems to exercise but little power, but to have passed them by forgotten, in his swift course. Everywhere else, at his touch, all is changed. Great cities rise upon the site of fishing villages; huge factories, with their smoky chimneys...
A priest lets his heart speak in a secret notebook. However, this leads to unexpected troubles, as his wife doesn't like what she fears he is writing.
The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your good-luck, as your taste may incline.The plant may be moribund or...
In the preface of "The Companions of Jehu" I told why that romance had been written; and those who have read it cannot fail to have seen where I borrowed from Nodier in the description of the execution, of which he was an ocular witness.In short, I borrowed my...
An average real estate agent with busted dreams in a small city embarks on his own hardcore mission for justice, when his lovely teenage daughter is run down and hospitalized by a smarmy pusher, who is associated with a malicious drug cartel in the tough neighborhood.
When I say I am called Valmont, the name will convey no impression to the reader, one way or another. My occupation is that of private detective in London, but if you ask any policeman in Paris who Valmont was he will likely be able to tell you, unless he is a recent...
A postcard will fall.A destiny will change...Will there be a nice encounter?
Beim heimatgeschichtlichen Verein in Oberndorf trägt fast jedes der Mitglieder etwas Persönliches zur Heimatgeschichte bei. Ich wollte dazu einen kleinen Beitrag leisten, indem ich eine Geschichte aus dem Londoner Decamerone vorlese und mit Erläuterungen darlege,...
This novel was written in the year 1830, in a place some three hundred leagues from Paris. Many years before that, when our armies were pouring across Europe, I chanced to be billeted in the house of a canon. It was at Padua-a fortunate city, where, as in Venice, men's...
Every one remembers the severity of the Christmas of 187-. I will not designate the year more closely, lest I should enable those who are too curious to investigate the circumstances of this story, and inquire into details which I do not intend to make known. That...
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked...
It was a wild and stormy October night. The big moon-faced clock in the entrance-hall, in its slow and solemn fashion, as of a horologe that felt the burden of its years, had just announced the hour of eleven. In his study alone, busy among his coins and curios, sat Sir...
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