The Monster and Other Stories

Stephen Crane

Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

Stephen Crane

Chapter I A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley.

Stephen Crane

Author of "The Red Badge of Courage," "The Little Regiment," "The Third Violet," etc.

Stephen Crane

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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.