Mark Gray's main pleasure in life was feeding rats to his pet python.
He kept the python in a blocked-off room in the old house in which he lived alone. Each mealtime, he would put the rat in a narrow tunnel he had rigged. At the end o […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Alan Alexander Milne (Алан Олександр Мілн).
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[…]У розділі представлені твори письменника Ambrose Bierce (Амброз Бірс).
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A Jug of […]
This narrative begins with the death of its hero. Silas Deemer died on the 16th day of July, 1863, and two days later his remains were buried. As he had been personally known to every man, woman and well-grown child in the village, the funeral, as […]
In the summer of 1874 I was in Liverpool, whither I had gone on business for the mercantile house of Bronson & Jarrett, New York. I am William Jarrett; my partner was Zenas Bronson. The firm failed last year, and unable to endure the fall from […]
When Joel Bird was up for Governor of Missouri, Sam Henly was editing the Berrywood _Bugle_; and no sooner was the nomination made by the State Convention than he came out hot against the party. He was an able writer, was Sam, and the lies he inve […]
Captain Graffenreid stood at the head of his company. The regiment was not engaged. It formed a part of the front line-of-battle, which stretched away to the right with a visible length of nearly two miles through the open ground. The left flank w […]
The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest's heart in the mountain region of southwestern Virginia. Private Grayrock of the Federal Army is discovered seated comfortably at the root of a great pine t […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Andre Norton (Андре Нортон).
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Breed to […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Anne Rice (Енн Райс).
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Merrick
[…]В разделе представлены произведения писателя Arthur C. Clarke (Артур Чарльз Кларк).
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The forest, which came almost to the edge of the beach, climbed away into the distance up the flanks of the low, misty hills. Underfoot, the sand was course and mixed with myriads of broken shells. Here and there the retreating tide had left long […]
У розділі представлені твори письменника Arthur Conan Doyle (Артур Конан Дойл).
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It was an American journalist who was writing up England - or writing her down as the mood seized him. Sometimes he blamed and sometimes he praised, and the case-hardened old country actually went its way all the time quite oblivious of his approv […]
[_Being the fragment of a letter from Sulpicius Balbus, Legate of the Tenth Legion, to his uncle, Lucius Piso, in his villa near Baiae, dated The Kalends of the month of Augustus in the year 824 of Rome._]
I promised you, my dear uncle, th […]
