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The Lion and the Unicorn
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Richard Harding Davis
What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what wou…
Satan's Diary
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919…
The Little Gray Lady
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Francis Hopkinson Smith
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great…
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illus…
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
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Voltaire
Beccaria's treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which condemns disproportionate and irrational penalties in general as well as torture and th…
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
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Anna Katharine Green
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to …
The Filigree Ball
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Anna Katharine Green
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bea…
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate
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Louis Tracy
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is a collection of six short stories, each of them illustrating that even a marriage which looks perfect from the outside can be sabota…
The Cynical Miss Catherwaight
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Richard Harding Davis
This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of "dishonored honors" - medals of honor pawned by the persons they were awarded…
A Wasted Day
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Richard Harding Davis
This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former e…
The Man Who Found the Truth
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so chara…
Outside the Prison
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Richard Harding Davis
On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. …
Told in the Coffee House
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Cyrus Adler
In the course of a number of visits to Constantinople, I became much interested in the tales that are told in the coffee houses. These are u…
The Men of Zanzibar
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Richard Harding Davis
This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expa…
The Criminal from Lost Honour
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Friedrich Schiller
"In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion…
Libussa
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Johann Karl August Musäus
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation…
The Tower of Dago
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Mór Jókai
This is the story of Feodor von Ungern, who, betrayed by his brother Zeno, installs himself with his son and a group of his most trusted men…
The New Paris
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is an Alice in Wonderland-like story by German classical author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is taken from his Autobiography "Di…
Somewhere in France
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Richard Harding Davis
When Captain Henri Ravignac married Marie Gessler, he was mistakenly thinking she was French. But Marie is in fact German, and her command o…