author: saki

The series lampooned political figures of the day ('Alice in Downing Street' begins with the memorable line, '"Have you ever seen an Ineptitude?"' - referring to a zoomorphised Arthur Balfour), and was published in the Liberal Westminster ...

... oraciones mezclaría sin cesar tu recuerdo al de Dios. -¿Y cómo sería de otro ... Santa Marta y me compraste la primera muñeca? ¿Y mucho más tarde, de aquel ... frases y luego continuó su camino. -¡Y parece tan bueno, y que me ama tanto ...

... caseras como para hacer caso omiso del deseo expreso de su familia de que se enamorara de alguna chica agradable y ... peso y las sugerencias de la opinión pública que por iniciativa propia. La clara mayoría de sus parientas y las ya ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... dawn he too was grey and grim. One monk alone had Modred kept, A youth with hair of golden-red, Who never once had sighed or wept, Not once had bowed his proud young head. Broken he lay, and bound with thongs. Thus had he seen his ...

... cuckold again.” But she halted afresh. “Why d'you call him cuckold?” “Because he is a cuckold, by Jove!” She came and leaned against the wall again; she was profoundly interested. “Ah!” she said simply. “What, d'you mean to say you didn ...

... little foot seemed a heap worse, an' he was sort o' flushed an' feverish, an ... ticklish edge, like they was then, why, we felt thet the safest side is the ... feet under him, an' laughin', the rain thess a-streakin' his hair all over ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated) ... family feud against Trenglos and his granddaughter . “ What does the girl ... questions as to his being yet alive . The father , as he went , said little ...

... got bone enough to be one of 'em. Well, son, lucky you landed here. And you're welcome as long as you'll stay, and that'll be ten days anyway before he's on his feet. Come on in, Kate. Meet Jack Chandler. This is my daughter. Put that ...

... answer: it means one who understands things without any other body telling him what they mean. God makes a few such now and then to teach the rest of us. "Do you like riddles?" asked Mr. Raymond, turning over the leaves of his own book ...

... 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 ...

... Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) Christmas Eve & Christmas Day - Ten Christmas stories (Edward Everett Hale) A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore) Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale) The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke) ...

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 ...

You can run into love seeking you in some stories, and destiny waiting to change the course of lives in others. The heady mix of humour, satire and drama makes these stories an essential cocktail of emotions.