by Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) (after the edition of Chatto & Windus, London, 1879) CHAPTER I In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was...

BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Chapter I The Haunted Bookshop If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may c...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame la Baronne James Rothschild. PART I HOW THE MOTHER LIVED CHAPTER I A BEDROOM OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY On a winter's...

by Eden Phillpotts CHAPTER I THE HOUSE PARTY The piers of the main entrance of Chadlands were of red brick, and upon each reposed a mighty sphere of grey granite. Behind them stretched away the park, ...

BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE INTRODUCTION THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the...

By Thackeray CHAPTER I GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF OUR VILLAGE AND THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE DIAMOND When I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond-pin; that is to s...

By ARTHUR MACHEN I THE EXPERIMENT "I am glad you came, Clarke; very glad indeed. I was not sure you could spare the time." "I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively j...

By ALICE DUNBAR To My best Comrade My Husband THE GOODNESS OF SAINT ROCQUE Manuela was tall and slender and graceful, and once you knew her the lithe form could never be mistaken. She walked with th...

by Chester K. Steele CHAPTER I PUTTING OUT There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy so close at hand...

By Sarojini Naidu INTRODUCTION It is at my persuasion that these poems are now published. The earliest of them were read to me in London in 1896, when the writer was seventeen; the later ones were sen...