She had given orders that she wished to remain undisturbed and moreover had locked the doors of her rooms. The house was very still. The rain was falling steadily from a leaden sky in which there was no gleam, no rift…
Highland Mary by Robert Burns Ye banks, and braes, and streams aroundThe castle o’ Montgomery,Green be your woods, and fair your flowers,Your waters never drumlie!There Simmer first unfald her robes,And there the lang…
The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the …
Frog by Edgar Allan Poe I never knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. T…
“How Much Land Does a Man Need?” is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, the great 19th-century Russian novelist and short story and essay writer. Published in 1886, the story was translated into English in 1906 by Louise an…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the King’s horsesAnd all the King’s menCannot put Humpty together again. At the very top of the hay-mow in the barn, the Speckled Hen had made her nest, a…