One afternoon I was sitting outside the Cafe de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, …
The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and upon the b…
All you that are true lovers, I beseech you pray the gods for fair weather upon the seventh night of the seventh moon. For patience’s sake and for dear love’s sake, pray, and be pitiful that upon that night there may …
Once upon a time, there was a little boy who received a set of toy soldiers as a gift. Among them was one brave soldier made entirely of tin. He stood proudly on one leg with his rifle at the ready. The little boy lov…
The leaves were so still that even Bibi thought it was going to rain. Bobint, who was accustomed to converse on terms of perfect equality with his little son, called the child’s attention to certain sombre clouds that…
Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death. It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; …