"Three-Day Blow'' is a short story that became a chapter from In Our Time. Jake (Hemingway's alter ego) hikes to his friend Bill's house where they spend the morning talking and drinking. The conversation is mostly chit-chat until the liquor loosens them up enough to discuss Jake's breakup with Marj...
This evocative poem was first published in 1832 but republished in 1842 with extensive alterations.
The narrative is based on an incident in Book Nine of the Odyssey. Odysseus' weary crew lands on the shore of the land of the lotus-eaters, who are only too willing to share the delicious but enerva...
Five years after the Rise of the Furies, the walking dead are dying out.
Bites don't infect...but anyone who dies, turns.
Skilled outdoorsman Tom Vanicek wants a future for the two children he's protected so fiercely through five years of living hell.
But life in the Columbus sanctuary zone ha...
The Freaks of Mayfair by E.F. Benson is a series of satirical sketches introducing us to some bizarre inhabitants of Edwardian High Society of Mayfair, which was, and still is today, the stamping ground of the very wealthy. Each sketch introduces a different type of "freak". Sir Louis and Lady Mary...
An older New York City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby, decides to leave the city for Cape Cod where they open a tea room. The tea room fails, but that's just the beginning of their adventures. With no money and no prospects, they set out as hobos and roam the countryside meeting people and gainin...
This collaboration between French writer Maurice Leblanc and British writer/translator Edgar Jepson introduces the world to the fictitious French gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. The book was based on a play by Leblanc and was first published in 1909. While the work reflects a young Lupin, listeners wi...
John Keats died in Rome in February 1821, at the age of 25. Shelley, who was to follow him to the grave the following year, was inspired to compose this pastoral lament, which consists of 55 Spenserian stanzas.
Shelley bitterly, but incorrectly, attributed his friend's untimely passing essentially...
Winnie-the-Pooh was Milne's first collection of stories about a fictional toy bear, which is owned by a boy called Christopher Robin, who was named after Milne's son. It was published in 1926. The stories also feature several characters modelled after Christopher's other stuffed toys, including Pigl...
Harmonium was American poet Wallace Stevens's first book, published when he was 44 years old. It represents his complete poetic output up to that point in his life. It is now considered a masterpiece, one of the great contributions to literary Modernism. It is a mixture of pure, rational, philosophi...
What is worse: capital punishment or life in prison? You be the Judge.
Anna Katharine Green (1846 - 1935) was one of the crime novelists and paved the way for later female writers of detective novels, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Ngaio Marsh.
Among her prolific output are 12 novels featuring her main character, detective Ebenezer Gryce of the New York...
