“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It is one of Irving’s…
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About three miles from the little town of Norton, in Missouri, on the road leading to Maysville, stands an old…
It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man.…
ONE fine evening, a no less fine government clerk called Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov was sitting in the second row of…
The Story of the Great Weep It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, after the Great Plague…
Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They…
When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of…
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. Express. In one…
Two friends — one a fat man and the other a thin man — met at the Nikolaevsky station. The…
OME children were at play in their play-ground one day, when a herald rode through the town, blowing a trumpet,…