The Dark House: A Knot Unravelled

George Manville Fenn

"There'll be such a game directly.

George Manville Fenn

"Well, boys, where have you been?"

George Manville Fenn

Two rooks flew over the Cathedral Close, and as they neared the old square Norman tower they cawed in a sneering way.

George Manville Fenn

WHY I WENT TO MY UNCLE'S. "I don't know what to do with him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.