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The White Company
by Arthur Conan DoyleWritten by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, The White company is Arthur Conan Doyle's intensive effort in creating a historical adventure work based on Hundred Years' War fought for the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. Alleyne and John of Hordle leave their shelter of catholic abbey for various reasons and both meet veteran archer Sam Aylward. The..
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot is a short detective work by Arthur Conan Doyle. While Holmes on a Holiday in Cornwall, Mr. Mortimer Tregennis approaches him with a case. According Tregennis his sister Brenda found dead previous day night and brothers George and Owen are mentally ill. He claims devil forces behind the ..
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax is a short crime story written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Lady Frances Carfax, who has the habit of traveling with costly jeweleries found missing as her governess stopped getting letters from her. Dr. Watson traces Lady Frances Carfax and found she has been last seen at Germany and left along-with a m..
The Chimes
by Charles DickensThe Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol and one year before The Cricket on the Hearth. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books": five short books with strong social and moral messages that he..
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
by Charles DickensCharles Dickens was one of the greatest among the many story-writers of "the Victorian age;" that is, the middle and latter part of the Nineteenth Century, when Victoria was Queen of Great Britain. Perhaps he was the greatest of them all for now, a generation after he passed away, more people read the stories of Dickens than those by any other auth..
To Be Read at Dusk
by Charles DickensTo Be Read at Dusk (1852) is a short story written by Charles Dickens, and was first published in Heath's Keepsake. In the text, five couriers talking amongst themselves outside a convent on the summit of the Great St Bernard Pass are overheard by the narrator as two of their group's members relate short ghost stories; one of a woman who abandons h..
The Seven Poor Travellers
by Charles DickensIt was in the ancient little city of Rochester in Kent, of all the good days in the year upon a Christmas-eve, that I stood reading this inscription over the quaint old door in question. I had been wandering about the neighbouring Cathedral, and had seen the tomb of Richard Watts, with the effigy of worthy Master Richard starting out of it like a ..
Doctor Marigold
by Charles DickensI am a Cheap Jack, and my own father?s name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country, how much is he all..