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Chapter 3: The Case of Mr. Foggatt
In Martin Hewitt, Investigator
Here are seven mystery stories featuring Martin Hewitt, Detective, and narrated (of course) by his (nameless) sidekick. Arthur Morrison cert…
Morlvera
In The Toys of Peace
The Toys of Peace is a delightful collection of short stories by the master of wit, Saki (H.H. Munro). Published posthumously in 1923, this …
RUNE XIII. Lemminkainen's Second Wooing
In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…
The Shadows by Frank Dempster Sherman
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…
Polinka
In The Tales of Chekhov Vol. 01
This is the first of thirteen volumes of Anton Chekhov's short stories, translated by Constance Garnett.Anton Chekhov was a Russian doctor w…
The Flicker
In Birds, Vol. I, No 3, March 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Of Moira Up the Glen, by Edward J. O’Brien
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRINCESS OF PILLIWINK
In Perkins of Portland
Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions dir…
In a Fog
In Voces Populi
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
The sphinx at Giza. The hen. Wind and fog
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…
A Sea Fog
In English Poems
Occasionally a compilation of poetry is conceived in which each poem, as a tribute to its theme or subject or elegant prosody, is one to be …
The Fog
In Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…
Scarlet Pimpernel ((Anagallis)
In Wild-flower Sonnets
A delightful calendar of sonnets celebrating wildflowers. A charming and fanciful collection of poems for every month of the year. - Summar…
Amadis at Miraflores
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Nightshade
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…
Fog
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 051
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
Sapphira Slick
In Poems of Puncture
Amanda McKittrick Ros’s poetry and prose have earned notoriety for their highly individual syntax, creative punctuation, unique diction, and…
Avatar
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Amaranth
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
The Message
In Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…