Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

The Pickwick Papers

by Charles Dickens

THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...

Les contes drôlatiques

by Honoré de Balzac

This is a book of the highest flavour, full of right hearty merriment, spiced to the palate of the illustrious and very ...

The odd number

by Guy de Maupassant

IT was tea-time before the appearance of the lamps.

Jennie Gerhardt

by Theodore Dreiser

One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the...

American Film

by American Film Institute

The clerk of Oxford in fiction

by Samuel Fletcher Hulton, Samuel Fletcher Hilton

Tales of my landlord, Second series. The Heart of Mid-Lothia...

by Sir Walter Scott

THE times have changed in nothing more (we follow as we are wont the manuscript of Peter Pattieson,) than in the rapid c...

The Talleyrand Maxim

by Joseph Smith Fletcher

Linford Pratt, senior clerk to Eldrick & Pascoe, solicitors, of Barford, a young man who earnestly desired to get on...

Poems

by Rudyard Kipling, Elliot

Looking back from this my seventieth year, it seems to me that every card in my working life has been dealt me in such a...

Clerk of Oxford in Fiction

by Samuel F. Hulton

An outcast of the islands

by Joseph Conrad

When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching...

Norske folke-eventyr

by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Libro del cortegiano

by Conte Baldassarre Castiglione, Baldesar Castilgione

I HAVE spent a long time wondering, my dear Alfonso, which of two things was the more difficult for me: either to refuse...

The snow-image, and other tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The secret of Red Gate Farm

by Carolyn Keene

"THAT Oriental-looking clerk in the perfume shop certainly acted mysterious," Bess Marvin declared, as she and her two f...

Port Tarascon. La Fédor

by Alphonse Daudet, Henry James

Joseph Balsamo

by Alexandre Dumas

CHON had not scrutinized the young girl many seconds, before Viscount Jean, ascending the stairs four at a time, like a ...