Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Short Story by Benjamin Franklin Possibly there never has lived a man who has excited…
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne “He is Born 1706 and Died 1790.” In the year 1716, or about that…
I and My Chimney
I and My Chimney Short Story by Herman Melville I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the…
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bartleby, the Scrivener Short Story by Herman Melville “A Story of Wall-street.” I AM a rather elderly man. The nature of…
Hop-Frog
Hop-Frog Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was.…
Berenice
Berenice Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon…
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
A Descent Into the Maelstrom Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest…
The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best…
A Horseman in the Sky
A Horseman in the Sky Short Story by Ambrose Bierce “In this Civil War story, Carter Druse, a young soldier from…
A Baffled Ambuscade
A Baffled Ambuscade Short Story by Ambrose Bierce Connecting Readyville and Woodbury was a good, hard turnpike nine or ten miles…