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With the beginning of a new century, we wait for one thing, a new source of inspiration for our poetry that will set it apart from that of the previous centuries. But where is thi ...

Is the good deed worth it if it remains a secret? It is indeed meaningful and significant both for the one who reaches out a helping hand and for the one who takes it. "Kept Secret ...

Here we are in Paris, where we will visit the exhibition. On the square next to our hotel, we are planting a tree that will shelter a dryad. This dryad, when its tree lived in the ...

The windmill on the top of the hill swelled with pride whenever someone looked up at him. And even though he pretended not to be, he was very proud of himself as well!Hans Christia ...

Outside, it is dark. The earth and the trees are covered with snow and a storm arrives with the clouds. But we are sitting inside next to the fire and we tell stories to pass the t ...

Now that we are in Jylland, we will go to the Börglum monastery, right at the top of the hill of sand. It is night, and on the upper floors of the monastery, the wind howls – the a ...

När drottning Victoria beordrar Tilda att gifta sig med prinsen av det avlägsna landet Oberia måste hon åka dit för att träffa honom, trots att hon verkligen inte vill gifta sig me ...

Den vackra Druscilla Morley har i hela sitt liv blivit utnyttjad av så kallade gentlemän. Druscilla är nu anställd som guvernant i hertigen av Windlehams hushåll. Hon blir förvånad ...

Kukkivassa syreenilehdossa seisoo avoin ruumisarkku. Arkussa makaa mies, jonka pään alla on suuri kirja. Kirja on kasvio – siihen on kerätty mitä kauneimpia kuivattuja kasveja. Mik ...

John McFarlane, a young solicitor, got himself in a mess which could cost him his future. He is afraid that he is about to be arrested for the murder of Jonas Oldacre, a builder wh ...

What can destroy sisterly love faster than a love triangle?'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes' tells the story of two sisters: Viola and Perdita, described as equally beautiful. ...

Love, art, ambitions and sacrifices. O. Henry’s "A Service of Love" tells the story of the artist Joe and the pianist Delia who fall in love with each other. They marry and althoug ...

The famous Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, served as the major influence for this collection of essays and sketches by Washington Irving. Blending history, myth, and natural des ...

"Out-and-out young gentlemen may be divided into two classes – those who have something to do, and those who have nothing."In Sketches of Young Gentlemen Charles Dickens presents t ...

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded." In this wonderful compilation of classic Charles Dickens stories, the adve ...

"Remember to the last, that while there is life there is hope."Onboard the ship The Golden Mary we meet a dignified woman in black, a man who wants to try his luck in the gold rush ...

There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...

More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...

"The Valley of Fear" is the last novel by Arthur Conan Doyle where the reader meets Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective. He and Doctor Watson arrive to a country manor to investi ...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes, "The Sign of Four" revolves around a blood pact between four convicts in India about a stolen treasure. Holmes is sitti ...

Dr. Watson is still in mourning, when his best friend, presumed dead till now, appears in his office. And thank God he is back – for there is work to be done, and Scotland Yard is ...

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of 12 short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the final one being the tragic and tearful "The Final Problem". Offering pretty good mys ...

"His Last Bow" is a collection of eight short-stories about the adventures of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Here are tales of murder, abductions, stolen information, and secrets. ...

"Robinson Crusoe" is Daniel Defoe’s best and most popular novel. It is structured like an autobiography of the main character, depicting his castaway adventures on a lonely island ...

"The Sleeper Awakes" belongs to the genre of dystopian science fiction, the preferred working ground for Wells. A futuristic Rip-van-Winkle who has been sleeping for more than two ...