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Gertrude Atherton – Death and the Woman
Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the desolation of her surroundings. She and…
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Gertrude Atherton – The Bell in the Fog
Chapter 1 The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral…
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Gertrude Atherton The Sacrificial Alter
LOUIS BAC drifted like a gray shadow through the gray streets of San Francisco. Even the French colony, one of…
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Gertrude Atherton – The Striding Place
This story requires a bit of background and introduction. It features something called ‘The Strid.’ That is a reference to…
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Machado de Assis – Life
End of time. Ahasverus, seated upon a rock, gazes for a long while upon the horizon, athwart which wing two…
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Machado de Assis – The Attendant’s Confession
So it really seems to you that what happened to me in 1860 is worth while writing down? Very well.…
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Machado de Assis – The Fortune-Teller
Hamlet observes to Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.…
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Peter Christen Asbjornsen – Grumblegizzard
Tales from the Fjeld was published in Tales from the Fjeld (1908), translated by George Webbe Dasent. ONCE on a time there were…
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Peter Christen Asbjornsen – Round the Yule-Log: Christmas in Norway
The wind was whistling through the old lime and maple trees opposite my windows, the snow was sweeping down the…
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T.S. Arthur – A Dollar on the Conscience
“Fifty-five cents a yard, I believe you said?” The customer was opening her purse. Now fifty cents a yard was…
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