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Once upon a time in a certain kingdom was a king who had only one son. When his son was about eighteen years old, his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person. The son became the vice-king, but his father ordered him that he must not...

Lucy Maud Montgomery, publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. During her writing career she published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Montgomery was honoured by being...

Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893), full name - Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer and novelist, author of many famous novels and stories. Guy de Maupassant was born in the castle de Miromesnil near Dieppe. His father - Gustave de Maupassant - who belonged...

Jerome Klapka Jerome, an English writer who is mostly known for as the author of the novel 'Three Men In A Boat' and 'The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow'. His first stories were rejected but that didn't stop him. Jerome's stories are full of sardonic humour and often based on his own experience anf...

Jerome Klapka Jerome, an English writer who is mostly known for as the author of the novel 'Three Men In A Boat' and 'The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow'. Jerome's stories are full of sardonic humour and often based on his own experience anf feelings. There is going to be a sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral...

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937; born Edith Newbold Jones) is a famous American novelist, short stories writer. She was born in privileged America’s family and show her point of view on it at her stories. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927. Also, she...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, who wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. Published in 1888, “Pig” is a satirical short story, included in “Plain Tales from the Hills”, a collection of stories of life in India....

An old native legend “Iktomi’s Blanket” tells us a story of Iktomi whose nice fat ducks were eaten by gray wolves. He was so hungry and angry that the only way to get food was going to Inyan, the great-grandfather. With his blanket over one shoulder he drew nigh to a huge rock on a hillside....

Mark Twain is an American writer, journalist and social activist. His work covers a variety of genres – humor, satire, philosophical fiction, journalism and others, and in all these genres, he has consistently taken the position of humanist and democrat.  'Sketches New And Old' is a...

Ignác Kúnos (originally Ignác Lusztig; 12 October 1860 – 12 January 1945) was a Hungarian folklorist, linguist, turkologist. He was one of the most avowed scientists of Turkish dialectology and folk literature. He started his career focusing on the dialectology, phonological...

Andrew Lang was a Scottish prolific author, mostly known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.  “The Story Of The Fair Circassians” is a short story, entered in “The Grey Fairy Book” collection. Narrated by first person, this tale is about two young and so beautiful circassians, named...

It happened in 1853, cases of peddling were more widespread than now and it was much more dangerous. The peddler with his luggage traveled around the country by all manner of lonely roads and was compelled to rely upon the country people for hospitality. There was a one old man in Iowa who was suspected...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer of the 19th century. It is a story about Captain Graffenreid, who has the rare advantage of a military education. Over a long period of time he is serving in the regiment. Death has been busy in his distant regiment, and every man in those...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. His creation is individualized by sardonic view of human nature and criticism. Participated the American Civil War, he composed the writing style with an abrupt beginnings, dark imagery, vague...