Category： Short Stories Author：Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz and a flash, and a screaming whistle, enough to deafen one.
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
A wallaby would have done just as well as a human being to endure the nothingness of existence as it has been known to me. This, I suppose, is why I want to tell of the only two lively things that have happened in a dull, uninteresting life.
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had originally been published in 1890–96 as a series of essays in the British monthly literary magaz...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
I do not know where Ballymulligan is, and never knew anybody who did. Once I asked the Mulligan the question, when that chieftain assumed a look of dignity so ferocious, and spoke of “Saxon curiawsitee” in a tone of such evident displeasure, that, as after all it can matter very little to me whereabouts lies the Celtic principality in ...
Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planetSolaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced toconfront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in theliving physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining theplanet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed andnewly corporeal mem...
