On the Pacific coast, near San Francisco, Frederick Travers, a large landowner and prominent businessman, possibly...

The story is about two sailors who leave an inn without paying and are thereby pursued by the evil innkeeper. During...

Deeply unhappy at the recent divorce of her parents, Mary is sent away to live by the sea with her distant...

In his stories Muratsan exposes the condemning Armenian elites to romantic irony, experiences with acute anxiety the...

“La Rabouilleuse” is an outstanding novel by Honore de Balzac that tells of a remarkable battle for inheritance. At...

A young and unknown boxer Pat Glendon accidentally gets to boxing manager Sam Stubener. The young man is very...

Set around 1727 near Boston, Massachusetts, the story centers on Tom Walker, a cheap and stingy miser who lives with...

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in November 1846. The narrator of this...

A married couple, Wakefield and his wife, lives in London. One evening in October, Wakefield tells his wife that he...

Rip Van Winkle is an amiable farmer who wanders into the Catskill Mountains, where he comes upon a group of dwarfs...

“The Lightning-Rod Man,” written in 1853 by Herman Melville, is a story about a man selling lightning rods who hopes...