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"Mr. Nicodemus Dumps, or, as his acquaintance called him, 'long Dumps,' was a bachelor, six feet high, and fifty years old: cross, cadaverous, odd, and ill-natured. He was never …
"The Baron Von Koëldwethout, of Grogzwig in Germany, was as likely a young baron as you would wish to see. I needn't say that he lived in a castle, because that's of course; …
Cassie Winslow er seksten år. Hun har nettopp mistet moren sin i en forferdelig ulykke. Nå, ensom og redd, har hun kommet for å bo hos faren hun knapt kjenner og hans nye familie i …
"The Bottle Imp" (1891) is a short story first published in the New York Herald, 1891. The story is about Keawe, a working class native of Hawaii, who buys a strange bottle from a …
"Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser …
"When we started for our drive the sun was shining brightly on Munich, and the air was full of the joyousness of early summer. Just as we were about to depart, Herr Delbrück (the …
"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot …
"Youth" is an autobiographical short story. Similar to Joseph Conrad's more well-known "Heart of Darkness", "Youth" begins with a narrator describing five men drinking claret …
The story opens with an unnamed narrator on board the Nellie, a cruising yawl (boat) anchored in the Thames Estuary downstream from London and near Gravesend. He is with four …
"Nurnberg at the time was not so much exploited as it has been since then. Irving had not been playing Faust, and the very name of the old town was hardly known to the great bulk …