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On the Art of Fiction
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086
"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…
Chapter XXXVI: The Renaissance
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
When The Old Century Was New
In Free, and other stories
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
10 - "He Wrote The History Book," It Said
In Poems of Marianne Moore
In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore…
The Exiles of Time by Ray Cummings Chapters III & IV
In Astounding Stories 16, April 1931
Contents of this issue :-MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON - Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long…
Selected excerpts by Johannes Ewald
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 14
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
A mistaken identity. The true history of the hare and the tortoise. Alone the immortals
In Fifty-one Tales (version 2)
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…
Old Times in the Colonies: No. III - Isaac Bradley and Joseph Whittaker
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Fore-Armed
In Dreamland and Ghostland
This collection of accounts and short stories of a ghostly nature was originally published in 3 volumes. The subtitle of this compilation ni…
Westward Ho
In Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up …
Famous and Ancient Cannon
In The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes
James Grant was a prolific Scottish writer of novels and "novelettes", particularly centered around military life. Included with t…
The History Lesson by Anonymous
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
A Great Kingdom in the Congo
In The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored c…
A Touch of Civilization, by Miriam Michelson
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 03 December 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Second Book
In The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection o…
The Man from Time
In Short Science Fiction Collection 068
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Introduction
In Romance of California Life; Illustrated By Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic And Humorous
These 37 short stories were authored by John Habberton (1842–1921), an American writer. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and dr…
Chapter III: The Historians. Part 1
In Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and cri…
France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note
In The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…