THREE PORTRAITS
Ivan Turgenev ‘Neighbours’ constitute one of the most serious drawbacks of life in the country.…
THE DUELLIST
Ivan Turgenev I A regiment of cuirassiers was quartered in 1829 in the village of…
BARBARA OF THE HOUSE OF GREBE
By the Old Surgeon THOMAS HARDY It was apparently an idea, rather than a passion,…
ALICIA’S DIARY
BY THOMAS HARDY CHAPTER I.—SHE MISSES HER SISTER July 7.—I wander about the house in…
A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS
By Thomas Hardy CHAPTER I The shouts of the village-boys came in at the window,…
A MERE INTERLUDE
By Thomas Hardy CHAPTER I The traveller in school-books, who vouched in dryest tones…
WAR MEMORIES
By Stephen Crane “But to get the real thing!” cried Vernall, the war-correspondent. “It seems…
Uncle Wellington’s Wives
by Charles W. Chesnutt I Uncle Wellington Braboy was so deeply absorbed in thought as…
The White Shadow
by Robert W. Chambers We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes,…
The Street of the First Shell
by Robert W. Chambers “Be of Good Cheer, the Sullen Month will die, And a…