author: leonid andreyev

... Heart, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Great God Pan... Théophile Gautier, Richard ... cheats of the fancy, and the fumes of a vapor can scarcely bewilder the ... gold has been gained with an easy labor. I knew where to seek for it, whether ...

... Meade Falkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Louisa M ... Emily Brontë, Walter Hubbell, George W. M. Reynolds, M. P. Shiel, Adelbert ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle, thatched ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle ...

The Call of Cthulhu, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde... Wilhelm Hauff ... maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d'Auseil. These maps have not been modern ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle ...

... a little, there she was again, white and shining and beautiful, and I sprang into her arms! That was perfect ... little thing; but if there was a moon she would ... pinch of delicate pink dust in the hole. I put my finger in, to feel it, and ...

... maid that they're both so in love that they'll die on the spot at the door ... story. It appears that it's a happy couple, a government clerk and his lady. The ... hot and say nasty things, and again I'm obliged to trot out all my ...

The Call of Cthulhu, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The ... maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d'Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps ...

... 5. A Fantasy of Fear 6. A Question of Science 7. The Red Eyes Return 8. Gateway to Evil 9. Descent into Avernus 10. Rescue from Abaddon 11. Wreckage 12. Letter from Lucifer 13. Indecision 14. Bizarre Explanation 15. A Modern Mr. Hyde 16 ...

... me tea. They drew back from me as if I had been a wild beast, but I could ... you. Who are you?" "Her husband——" The woman looked at me with hard eyes ... elp 'er through 'er trouble, she outs with your putty face on a card, she doez, an ...

... spells is still firmly believed in among us), and that this could be clearly ... little German garden. With a faint rustle of her starched petticoats, she ... white cap, which gave still more acerbity to the sharp features of her swarthy ...

... definition of happiness is not only a self-revelation, it will appeal to many humble individuals who are not writers at all. Being asked for a definition of happiness, he gave it in two words--Remorseless Laziness. It is one of the ...

... mistress's daughter is wooed by none ! ” In vain does its mistress throw it a cake , and order it to modify its remarks . It eats the cake , but it repeats its offensive observations , until the stepdaughter appears in all her glory ...

... John Meade Falkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Louisa M ... me the promised French lesson; and occasionally in the mornings, provided ... all jest and gaiety, pelting me with dead leaves, chasing me in and out of the ...

... Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann ... Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando, William ... Never ! " she answered . " If you still persist in maintaining our engagement ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked and bound hand and foot, and an infant, apparently only a few months ...

... rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now ... horror, and to glimpse a hellish advance in the black dominion of the ... Arkham— What walked on the mountains that May-Night? What Roodmas horror fastened ...

... sheet music, in ... portrait – the large, painted portrait she had brought with her from St Petersburg. Fr. Ignaty had established a particular order in his examination of the portrait: first he looked at the cheek that was lit in the ...

... Sweeney Todd come by these articles, except by the murder of their owners ... sea. In common with all boys of his age, who know nothing whatever of the ... sea!' ejaculated Tobias. 'Yes, I will go to sea!' As he spoke those words, he ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle ...

This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: The Rise of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime ...

... Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. Garshin, F.K. Sologub, I.N. Potapenko, S.T. Semyonov, M.P. Artzybashev, A.I. Kuprin, H. H. Munro, Ivan Goncharov. CHAPTER. 3. Peasant. Women. Who. Have. Faith. Table of ...

... mistress's daughter is wooed by none ! ” In vain does its mistress throw it a cake , and order it to modify its remarks . It eats the cake , but it repeats its offensive observations , until the stepdaughter appears in all her glory ...

... Pavel, by his words, removed the people to a distance from himself, and thereby grew in the eyes of the mother. His ... power. Our slogan is simple: 'All the power for the people; all the means of production for the people; work ...

... Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. ... again Smerdyakov's name is pronounced , again there is a suggestion of mystery ... I have visited Smerdyakov , I have seen him and talked to him , and he made ...

... timber for felling, lent money at interest, and altogether was a sharp old ... deaf; his wife Aksinya, a handsome woman with a good figure, who wore a hat ... deaf, and who evidently knew very little about female beauty. The old man had ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts of mud and wattle ...

... Katherine Rickford, Bithia Mary Croker, Catherine L. Pirkis, Émile Erckmann ... Jackson Davis, Nizida, Walter F. Prince, Chester Bailey Fernando. He spoke ... Never ! " she answered . " If you still persist in maintaining our engagement ...

... props which they call legs." The little mermaid sighed and looked unhappily at her fish tail. "Come, let us be gay!" the old lady said. "Let us leap and bound throughout the three hundred years that we have to live. Surely that is time ...

... epic of suffering with episodes of sin - I see nothing clearly ; it comes ... walking in a forest , half - clad , footsore , unutterably weary and hungry ... see if I can reduce it to narrative . I seem once to have lived near a great ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... naked, dark-skinned women. Beyond the fires he saw huts ...