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The Furnished Room by O. Henry

December 8, 2009 by storybus

     Restless, shifting, fugacious-- as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the- red brick district of the lower West -Side. Homeless, they -have a hundred homes. -They flit from furnished room to furnished room, transients forever—transients in abode, transients in heart and mind.read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
O. Henry

"Beauty and the Beast" story by Marie le Prince de Beaumont

December 5, 2009 by storybus

Beauty-and-the-BeastThere was once a very- rich merchant, who had six children, three sons,and three daughters; being a man of sense, he spared no cost for their education, but gave them all -kinds of masters.  read the short story

story type: 
Children's
Author: 
Marie le Prince de Beaumont
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter"

July 4, 2009 by storybus

Rappaccini's Daughter   We do not remember to have seen any translated specimens of the productions of M. de l'Aubepine a fact the less to be wondered at, as his very name is unknown to many of his own countrymen as well as to the student of foreign literature.read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Lagoon

June 17, 2009 by storybus

lagoon-storyThe white man, leaning with both arms over the roof of the little house in the stern of the boat, said to the steersman—
"We will pass the night in Arsat's clearing. It is late."read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Joseph Conrad
Page: 
11

The Fulness of Life

June 9, 2009 by storybus

I.
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet
lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the
heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk
in the tasselled meadow-grasses, one looks up through a level roofing
of maple-leaves at the vast shadowless, and unsuggestive blue. Now and
then, at ever-lengthening intervals, a flash of pain darted through her,read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Edith Wharton
Page: 
7

The Thing's The Play

May 31, 2009 by storybus

Being acquainted with a newspaper reporter who had a couple of free passes, I got to see the performance a few nights ago at one of the popular vaudeville houses.
One of the numbers was a violin solo by a striking-looking man not much past forty, but with very gray thick hair. Not being afflicted with a taste for music, I let the system of noises drift past my ears while I regarded the man.read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
O. HENRY
Page: 
4

Heine and Mathilde

May 17, 2009 by storybus

The love story of Heine and his Mathilde is another of those stories which fix a type of loving.  It is the love of a man of the most brilliant genius, the most relentless, mocking intellect, for a simple, pretty woman,read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Richard Le Gallienne
Page: 
7

Clarimonde

May 12, 2009 by storybus

Brother, you ask me if I have ever loved. Yes. My story is a strange and
terrible one; and though I am sixty-six years of age,read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Théophile Gautier
Page: 
24

An Imaginnative Woman

May 4, 2009 by storybus

When William Marchmill had finished his inquiries for lodgings at a well-
known watering-place in Upper Wessex, he returned to the hotel to find
his wife.  She, with the children, had rambled along the shore, and
Marchmill followed in the direction indicated by the military-looking
hall-porterread the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Thomas Hardy
Page: 
18

THE CHILD'S STORY

April 24, 2009 by storybus

Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon a journey. It was a magic journey, and was to seem very long when he began it, and very short when he got half way through.read the short story

story type: 
Romance
Author: 
Charles DICKENS

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