Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
Preparations had begun for our school annual day. Two plays were to be staged. The senior section was to enact ‘Merchant of Venice’ and the junior section, ‘The Story of Rama’.
Mark Twain. The Awful German Language A little learning makes the whole world kin.
The gift of the magi by O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898] I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
Read online One Night of Song by Issac Asimov As it happens, I have a friend who hints, sometimes, that he can call up spirits from the vasty deep.
David Garnett. Lady into fox Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence.
“I won’t, I won’t, I won’t. He’s a greedy glutton and I won’t take him to the party,” said Leeladidi* stamping her feet as she stormed out of the room.
Father Rebello sat in his study, his vast bulk filling the roomy revolving chair. ‘Swish, swish’, went his pen as he wrote. Tick-tock went the clock on top of the bookshelf.
THE GRAND INQUISITOR By Feodor Dostoevsky (Translation by H.P.
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll PREFACE If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but
William Gibson. Fragments of A Hologram Rose That summer Parker had trouble sleeping.
Charles Dickens. DOCTOR MARIGOLD I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father’s name was Willum Marigold.
“You good for nothing fellow!” one slap. “You naughty boy!” another slap. “You rascal!” a shower of slaps. I could see stars dancing at midday!
WE are travelling to Paris to the Exhibition. Now we are there. That was a journey, a flight without magic. We flew on the wings of steam over the sea and across the land.