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The Bridal March by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
The Bridal March (Brude-Slaatten) was written in Christiania in 1872. It was originally published in the second volume of the…
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The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnson uses just over one thousand words to spin this powerful morality tale about a wealthy man’s spiritual journey at…
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The Railroad and the Churchyard by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Translated by Carl LarsenI. CANUTE AAKRE belonged to an ancient family of the parish, where it had always been distinguished…
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A Baby Tramp by Ambrose Bierce
If you had seen little Jo standing at the street corner in the rain, you would hardly have admired him.…
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A Baffled Ambuscade by Ambrose Bierce
Connecting Readyville and Woodbury was a good, hard turnpike nine or ten miles long. Readyville was an outpost of the…
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A Bivouac of the Dead by Ambrose Bierce
Away up in the heart of the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia, is a beautiful little valley through…
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A Cold Greeting by Ambrose Bierce
This is a story told by the late Benson Foley of San Francisco: “In the summer of 1881 I met…
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A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce
‘I am not so superstitious as some of your physicians – men of science, as you are pleased to be…
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A Fruitless Assignment by Ambrose Bierce
Henry Saylor, who was killed in Covington, in a quarrel with Antonio Finch, was a reporter on the Cincinnati Commercial.…
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A Holy Terror by Ambrose Bierce
IThere was an entire lack of interest in the latest arrival at Hurdy-Gurdy. He was not even christened with the…
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