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Achmed Abdullah Strength of the Little Thin Thread
Strength of the Little Thin Thread was Abdullah’s first published story, appearing in Collier’s Weekly, September 21, 1912. IBRAHIM FADLALLAH shrugged bis…
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Achmed Abdullah Fear
Fear is the title story in the collection, Fear and Other Stories (1918). THE fact that the man whom he feared had died…
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Achmed Abdullah An Indian Jataka
An Indian Jataka affirms that “love demands eternal vigilance,” published in The Ten Foot Chain; or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (1920). (A…
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Achmed Abdullah – An Act of Piety
An Act of Piety (1918) was considered one of the best short stories of 1918, first published in The All-Story Weekly. Its…
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Achmed Abdullah The Incubus
The Incubus brilliantly depicts the darkness that is Africa in this weird story of a white man alone in the jungle.…
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott – The Indiscreet Letter
Halifax rail yard, 1900 The Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The Traveling Salesman was rather short and quick.…
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott – Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs
PART I If you don’t like Christmas stories, don’t read this one! And if you don’t like dogs I don’t…
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Ilia Chavchavadze – Nikoloz Gostashabishvili
Firstly published in 1880 Author: Prince Ilia Chavchavadze Translated by Professor Kakhaber Jakeli (Kakhaber Djakeli) I remember being a child,…
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Mark Twain – Taming the Bicycle
In the early eighties [1880’s] Mark Twain learned to ride one of the old high-wheel bicycles of that period. He…
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Mark Twain – Roughing It
ANOTHER night of alternate tranquillity and turmoil. But morning came by-and-by. It was another glad awakening to fresh breezes, vast…
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