By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long- suffering
woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs
of singular and often undesirable...
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and
interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate
friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, ...
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental
qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as
possible, to select those which ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles
I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day
towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a...
William Shakespeare 1612
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke
of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son
to the King o...
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
1
Belgian and Arab
Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had
dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first
he had been humbly...
WHITE AND YELLOW
San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous
to ocean-going craft than is the ocean itself in its violent moments.
The waters of the bay contain all manner ...
by Andrew Lang
THE BOYHOOD AND PARENTS OF ULYSSES
Long ago, in a little island called Ithaca, on the west coast of Greece,
there lived a king named Laertes. His kingdom was small and mountainous.
Peop...
THE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSON
CHAPTER I - IN WHICH JOHN SOWS THE
WIND
JOHN VAREY NICHOLSON was stupid; yet, stupider men than he are now
sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the au...
BY VICTOR APPLETON
CHAPTER I
A WONDERFUL STORY
Tom Swift, who had been slowly looking through the pages of a magazine,
in the contents of which he seemed to be deeply interested, turned the
final foli...