One of Irelands most famous writers was James Joyce, a novelist and poet whos best known for his avant garde classic Ulysses, which was inspired by The Odyssey but written in a completely modern, stre…
Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a sque…
Однажды, возвратившись с прогулки, она становится свидетельницей того, как ее комнату обыскивает хозяйка, у которой пропала дорогая брошь. В отличие от прочих слуг, принявших неприятное происшествие к…
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the collection My Name Is Sattu mc. It tells the story of two boys, Aram and Mourad, who belong to a very…
At a railway station, an arrogant and overbearing woman (Mrs. Quabarl) mistakes the mischievous Lady Carlotta (who has been inadvertently left behind by Carlotta's train) for the governess Miss Hope s…
The story speaks of the betrayal of wives to their husbands. A rich and sick bachelor wrote a letter, before nine years of his death, to be delivered to his friends by his servant after his death. Thi…
“The Apostate” is a short story written by George Milburn in 1937, published in The New Yorker (June 4, 1932) and later on in No More Trumpets and Other Stories (1933), one of his most renowned and po…
The stories found in A Haunted House reflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as an enlightening introduction to the longer fiction of this pioneer novelist. Gathering works from th…
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West…
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they wake on the morning of the twenty-seventh of June. Everything has been prepared for the town’s annual …
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his large converted abbey home. He and many other wealthy nobles, hold a masquerade ball us…
