Category： Short Stories Author：novel
Mr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of hisbrother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at anytime, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc cared but littleabout his ostensible business. And, moreover, his wife was in charge of hisbrother-in-law.
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Category： Short Stories Author：Herman Melville
The Isles at Large. —“That may not be, said then the ferryman, Least we unweeting hap to be fordonne; For those same islands seeming now and than, Are not firme land, nor any certein wonne, But stragling plots which to and fro do ronne In the wide waters; therefore are they hight The Wandering Islands; therefore do them shonne; ...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woollyheaded, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole a...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Alexander William Kin
At Semlin I still was encompassed by the scenes and the sounds of familiar life; the din of a busy world still vexed and cheered me; the unveiled faces of women still shone in the light of day. Yet, whenever I chose to look southward, I saw the Ottoman’s fortress — austere, and darkly impending high over the vale of the Danube — histor...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Henry James
I had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my “chief,” as he was called in the office: he had the high mission of bringing the paper up. This was a weekly periodical, which had been supposed to be almost past redemption when he took hold of it....
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