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The Red InnThe Red Inn In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the world through correspondence; a man...
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SeraphitaSeraphita As the eye glances over a map of the coasts of Norway, can the imagination fail to marvel at their fantastic indentations and serrated edges, like a granite lace, against which the surges of the North Sea roar incessantly? Who has not dreamed...
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Trooper Peter Halket of MashonalandTrooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (A photographic plate at the front of the book shows three people hanging from a tree by their necks. Around them stand eight men, looking not at all troubled by their participation in the scene. Of this event all...
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Beautiful Stories from ShakespeareBeautiful Stories from Shakespeare It may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence. He has been imitated by all succeeding writers; and it may be doubted whether from all his successors more maxims...
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The Garden Party, and Other StoriesThe Garden Party, and Other Stories Very early morning. The sun was not yet risen, and the whole of Crescent Bay was hidden under a white sea-mist. The big bush-covered hills at the back were smothered. You could not see where they ended and...
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La GrenadiereLa Grenadiere La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered green islands, flows...
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A Drama on the SeashoreA Drama on the Seashore Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of...
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The RecruitThe Recruit On an evening in the month of November, 1793, the principal persons of Carentan were assembled in the salon of Madame de Dey, where they met daily. Several circumstances which would never have attracted attention in a large town, though they greatly...
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El VerdugoEl Verdugo The clock of the little town of Menda had just struck midnight. At that moment a young French officer, leaning on the parapet of a long terrace which bordered the gardens of the chateau de Menda, seemed buried in thoughts that were...
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Castle RackrentCastle Rackrent The Prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics who aspire to the character of superior wisdom; but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestable proof of the...
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No ThoroughfareNo ThoroughfareDay of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Pauls, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin before the heavy bell...
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Going into SocietyGoing into SocietyAt one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of any...
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Mrs. Lirriper's LegacyMrs. Lirriper's LegacyAh! Its pleasant to drop into my own easy-chair my dear though a little palpitating what with trotting up-stairs and what with trotting down, and why kitchen stairs should all be corner stairs is for the builders to justify though I do...
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London's UnderworldLondon's Underworld I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but very serious social problems. Corporate humanity always has had, and always will have, serious problems to consider. The more civilised...
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Mugby JunctionMugby JunctionHe spoke to himself. There was no one else to speak to. Perhaps, though there had been any one else to speak to, he would have preferred to speak to himself. Speaking to himself he spoke to a man within five years of...
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Country SentimentCountry Sentiment Note: Some of the poems included in this volume have appeared in "The New Statesman", "The Owl", "Reveille", "Land and Water", "Poetry", and other papers, English and American. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 1418 Author: Graves, Robert Release Date:...
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Sons of the SoilSons of the Soil My dear Nathan,You, who provide the public with such delightful dreams through the magic of your imagination, are now to follow me while I make you dream a dream of truth. You shall then tell me whether the present century...
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Mrs. Lirriper's LodgingsMrs. Lirriper's LodgingsWhoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasnt a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivable to me, my dear; excuse the familiarity, but it comes natural to me in my own little room, when...
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Doctor MarigoldDoctor MarigoldI am a Cheap Jack, and my own fathers name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself...
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Somebody's LuggageSomebody's LuggageThe writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and having come of a family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to offer a...
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