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An Adventure

An Adventure

by Eleanor F. Jourdain

It is a great venture to speak openly of a personal experience, and we only do so for the following reasons. First, we prefer that our story, which is known in part to some, should be wholly known as told by ourselves. Secondly, we have collected so much evidence on the subject, that it is possible now to consider it as a whole. Thirdly, conditions..

Eyes That Watch

Eyes That Watch

by Raymond Z. Gallun

He, Sam Conway, was back from Mars now. Back from red, ferric deserts no Earthly boot had ever touched before. Back from bitter cold and aching dryness. Back from dazzling yellow hazes of dust and suspended ice crystals. No more need to wear oxygen armor in a thin, ozone-tainted atmosphere now. Back from solitude, and the endless fight to keep aliv..

Modern Swedish Masterpieces -  Short Stories

Modern Swedish Masterpieces - Short Stories

by Charles Wharton Stork

It is curious that, despite the rapid growth of interest in Scandinavian literature through the English-speaking world, there has been up to now no book to represent one of the most brilliant fields of achievement, the Swedish short story. The work of Selma Lagerlof is well known and a volume of Per Hallström has appeared recently, but no attempt h..

The Lightning's Course

The Lightning's Course

by John Victor Peterson

It was only a robot, tiny, chubby, for all the universe like a Ganymedean monkey. It stood in the dark old mansion alone, stiff, immovable. Its pink, bewhiskered, rubberoid face seemed twisted with abject loneliness.... Aye, it stood alone and lonely, as if awaiting the return of its master—The song pulsed in a vibrant, ominous cadence through the ..

Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

by Levetus

THESE stories were collected from the mouths of the Turkish peasantry by the Hungarian savant Dr. Ignatius Kunos, during his travels through Anatolia,  and published for the first time in 1889 by the well-known Hungarian Literary Society, “A Kisfaludy Társaság,” under the Title of Török Népmések (“Turkish Folk Tales”), with an introduction by ..

What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?

What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation?

by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

The largest sale of human chattels that has been made in Star-Spangled America for several years, took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, at the Race-course near the City of Savannah, Georgia. The lot consisted of four hundred and thirty-six men, women, children and infants, being that half of the negro stock remaining on the old Major B..

Little Mexican & Other Stories

Little Mexican & Other Stories

by Aldous Huxley

Little Mexican & Other Stories is a collection of short stories compiled by Aldous Huxley whose other works include  ANTIC HAY: a novel, CROME YELLOW: a novel, MORTAL COILS: short stories, LIMBO: short stories, LEDA: and other poems, ON THE MARGIN: notes & essays.Some people I know can look back over the long series of their childish h..

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

Trips in the Life of a Locomotive Engineer

by Henry Dawson

Bravery and heroism have in all times been extolled, and the praises of the self-sacrificing men and women who have risked their own in the saving of others' lives, been faithfully chronicled. Railroad men, too long looked upon as the rougher kind of humanity, have been the subjects of severe condemnation and reproach upon the occurrence of every d..