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In Day Dreams
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
Excerpts from various plays
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Miss Ophelia Gledd
In Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories
In this collection of short stories by Anthony Trollope: A Viennese musician courts a much younger woman. A young man must choose between pu…
He Also Serves
In Options
O. Henry needs no introduction of course; the man who made the short story with the surprise ending famous. These 16 stories are all wonder…
Lady Primrose: Chapter 1
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, Jan. 13, 1880
Harper's Young People, first published in 1879, was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short storie…
Robert Gould Shaw
In Short Stories (Later works 1858-65)
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Dickens's 'Household Worlds' and 'All The Round' until he later years. From 1858 onwards, she…
Teaser
In Astounding Stories 03, March 1930
Astounding Stories invites listeners into a world of imagination and innovation, showcasing the best of early 20th-century science fiction. …
13 - A Letter Home
In Tales of the Five Towns
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…
Morning at the Window
In Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song…
Readers World
In Astounding Stories 16, April 1931
Contents of this issue :-MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON - Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long…
Frascatti's
In Leda
Though he gained recognition for his later essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1920, Leda is…
A Conversation at Dawn
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
The Ruling Thought
In The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin
San Francisco Renata
In Selected Poems
Marion Cummings was an American poet and academic. Born in San Jose, she graduated from the University of California and taught at the Unive…
Dialogue
In Selected Poems
Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…
A Ninon
In Nuevos Cuentos a Ninon
Antes de convertirse en el gran escritor del movimiento literario naturalista y más tarde en un símbolo de la literatura con c…
May Colven
In A Collection of Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…
Corso
In 20 Poemas Para Ser Leídos En El Tranvía
Después de viajar por España, Francia, Italia, el norte de África y Brasil, Oliverio Giraldo escribió "20 p…
He and She
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful anthology that captures the essence of American humor through a diverse collection of short sto…
Chapter One
In The Crocodile
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the be…