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The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M. Joseph Bédier (1.5-2 hour read)
My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2-3 hour read)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog...
Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant (10 minute read)
Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get.
BOULE DE SUIF by Guy de Maupassant (50–65 minute read)
For several days, straggling remnants of the routed army had passed through the town.
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? by Mark Twain (25-35 minute read)
You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!”
The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain (45-60 minute read)
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (50-60 minute read)
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about.
An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (15-20 minute read)
One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (20-25 minute read)
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens
The Secret Rose by W.B. Yeats (45-60 minutes)
A man, with thin brown hair and a pale face, half ran, half walked, along the road that wound from the south to the town of Sligo. Many called him Cumhal, the son of Cormac, and many called him the Swift, Wild Horse
King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert (3–4 hour read)
This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats (60-90 minute read)
Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill...
The History of England by Jane Austen (30-40 minute read)
FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY THE 4TH TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE 1ST...BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M. Joseph Bédier (1.5-2 hour read)
My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2-3 hour read)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog...
Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant (10 minute read)
Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get.
BOULE DE SUIF by Guy de Maupassant (50–65 minute read)
For several days, straggling remnants of the routed army had passed through the town.
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? by Mark Twain (25-35 minute read)
You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!”
The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain (45-60 minute read)
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (50-60 minute read)
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about.
An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (15-20 minute read)
One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (20-25 minute read)
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens
The Secret Rose by W.B. Yeats (45-60 minutes)
A man, with thin brown hair and a pale face, half ran, half walked, along the road that wound from the south to the town of Sligo. Many called him Cumhal, the son of Cormac, and many called him the Swift, Wild Horse
King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert (3–4 hour read)
This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats (60-90 minute read)
Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill...
The History of England by Jane Austen (30-40 minute read)
FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY THE 4TH TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE 1ST...BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”
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Charles Dickens
(1812-1870) British novelist, journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870) British novelist, journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870) British novelist, journalist, and social reformer who rose from childhood poverty to become the most celebrated writer of the Victorian era.
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) Russian novelist, short-story writer, and moral philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Best known for epic novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) Russian novelist, short-story writer, and moral philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Best known for epic novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) Russian novelist, short-story writer, and moral philosopher, widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Best known for epic novels like War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) American writer, poet, and critic who essentially invented the modern detective sotry, perfected psychological horror, and pioneered science fiction. Despite lifelong poverty, addiction, and personal tragedy, his influence on literature remains colossal-shaping everyone from Dostoevsky to Stephen King and modern horror cinema.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) American writer, poet, and critic who essentially invented the modern detective sotry, perfected psychological horror, and pioneered science fiction. Despite lifelong poverty, addiction, and personal tragedy, his influence on literature remains colossal-shaping everyone from Dostoevsky to Stephen King and modern horror cinema.
Katherine Mansfield
(1862-1937) New Zealand-born modernist short-story writer whose innovative, impressionistic style revolutionized the genre in the early 20th centry. Dying of tuberculosis at just 34, she left a small but flawless body of work that continues to be studied as the gold standard of the modern short story.
Katherine Mansfield
(1862-1937) New Zealand-born modernist short-story writer whose innovative, impressionistic style revolutionized the genre in the early 20th centry. Dying of tuberculosis at just 34, she left a small but flawless body of work that continues to be studied as the gold standard of the modern short story.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) American writer, poet, and critic who essentially invented the modern detective story, perfected psychological horror, and pioneered science fiction. Despite lifelong poverty, addiction, and personal tragedy, his influence on literature remains colossal-shaping everyone from Dostoevsky to Stephen King and modern horror cinema.
Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849) American writer, poet, and critic who essentially invented the modern detective story, perfected psychological horror, and pioneered science fiction. Despite lifelong poverty, addiction, and personal tragedy, his influence on literature remains colossal-shaping everyone from Dostoevsky to Stephen King and modern horror cinema.
Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1937) New Zealand-born modernist short-story writer whose innovative, impressionistic style revolutionized the genre in the early 20th century. Dying of tuberculosis at just 34, she left a small but flawless body of work that continues to be studied as the gold standard of the modern short story.
Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1937) New Zealand-born modernist short-story writer whose innovative, impressionistic style revolutionized the genre in the early 20th century. Dying of tuberculosis at just 34, she left a small but flawless body of work that continues to be studied as the gold standard of the modern short story.
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.
Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904) Russian physician, playwright, and short-story master who revolutionized both forms by replacing melodramatic plots with quiet, everyday moments that reveal the comedy and tragedy of ordinary lives. Wrote over 600 stories and left a body of work that Tolstoy called second only to Shakespeare.
Guy de Maupassant
(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"
Guy de Maupassant
(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"
Guy de Maupassant
(1850-1893) French master of the short story who, in just over a decade wrote more than 300 stories that laid bare the vanity, cruelty, and hidden desires of bourgeois life. He earned the title "the greatest short-story writer who ever lived"
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M. Joseph Bédier (1.5-2 hour read)
My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2-3 hour read)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog...
Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant (10 minute read)
Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get.
BOULE DE SUIF by Guy de Maupassant (50–65 minute read)
For several days, straggling remnants of the routed army had passed through the town.
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? by Mark Twain (25-35 minute read)
You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!”
The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain (45-60 minute read)
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (50-60 minute read)
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about.
An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (15-20 minute read)
One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (20-25 minute read)
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens
The Secret Rose by W.B. Yeats (45-60 minutes)
A man, with thin brown hair and a pale face, half ran, half walked, along the road that wound from the south to the town of Sligo. Many called him Cumhal, the son of Cormac, and many called him the Swift, Wild Horse
King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert (3–4 hour read)
This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats (60-90 minute read)
Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill...
The History of England by Jane Austen (30-40 minute read)
FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY THE 4TH TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE 1ST...BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M. Joseph Bédier (1.5-2 hour read)
My lords, if you would hear a high tale of love and of death, here is that of Tristan and Queen Iseult
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (2-3 hour read)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog...
Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant (10 minute read)
Besieged Paris was in the throes of famine. Even the sparrows on the roofs and the rats in the sewers were growing scarce. People were eating anything they could get.
BOULE DE SUIF by Guy de Maupassant (50–65 minute read)
For several days, straggling remnants of the routed army had passed through the town.
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? by Mark Twain (25-35 minute read)
You confess it--you actually confess it--you told a lie!”
The $30,000 Bequest by Mark Twain (45-60 minute read)
Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (50-60 minute read)
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about.
An Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (15-20 minute read)
One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (20-25 minute read)
DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens
The Secret Rose by W.B. Yeats (45-60 minutes)
A man, with thin brown hair and a pale face, half ran, half walked, along the road that wound from the south to the town of Sligo. Many called him Cumhal, the son of Cormac, and many called him the Swift, Wild Horse
King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert (3–4 hour read)
This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl who loves adventures.
Stories of Red Hanrahan by W.B. Yeats (60-90 minute read)
Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn where some of the men of the village were sitting on Samhain Eve.
Lady Susan by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
MY DEAR BROTHER,—I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill...
The History of England by Jane Austen (30-40 minute read)
FROM THE REIGN OF HENRY THE 4TH TO THE DEATH OF CHARLES THE 1ST...BY A PARTIAL, PREJUDICED, AND IGNORANT HISTORIAN.
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love.”
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Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.”
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Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--nor wished to be.
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
Weekly Featured
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen (60-90 minute read)
“Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.”
The Blue Cross, A Father Brown Story, by G.K. Chesterton (25-35 minute read)
Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--nor wished to be.
A Scandal in Bohemia - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (45 minute read)
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (15-20 minute read)
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck.
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville (45-60 minute read)
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men..
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway (15-20 minute read)
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun.
Editor's top 10
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (15-20 minute read)
A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck.
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville (45-60 minute read)
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men..
Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway (15-20 minute read)
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun.
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The Life of Jack London: Adventurer, Author, and Agitator
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California, rose from abject poverty to become one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers.
James Joyce's Dubliners: A Portrait of Paralysis and Epiphany
James Joyce, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, was born in Dublin in 1882 and spent much of his early life...
Who is Anton Chekhov? One of The Great Short Story Writers of All Time
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born on January 29, 1860, in the port town of Taganrog, Russia, stands as one of the most influential figures in world literature.
authors in review
The Life of Jack London: Adventurer, Author, and Agitator
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California, rose from abject poverty to become one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers.
James Joyce's Dubliners: A Portrait of Paralysis and Epiphany
James Joyce, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, was born in Dublin in 1882 and spent much of his early life...
Who is Anton Chekhov? One of The Great Short Story Writers of All Time
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born on January 29, 1860, in the port town of Taganrog, Russia, stands as one of the most influential figures in world literature.
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