The Adventure of The Engineer's Thumb

 
sharlock_holmesOf all the problems which have been submitted
to my friend, Mr.Sherlock Holmes, for solution
during the years of our intimacy,there were
only two which I was the means of introducing
to his notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb,
and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.read the short story

story type: 
Adventure
Author: 
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Page: 
15

An Encounter

Encounter_fiction_storyIT WAS Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us. He had a little
library made up of old numbers of The Union Jack, Pluck and The
Halfpenny Marvel.read the short story

story type: 
Fiction
Author: 
James Joyce
Page: 
5

The Travelling Musicians

 
An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him
a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more
unfit for work.read the short story

story type: 
Children's
Author: 
Brothers GRIMM
Page: 
2

Death and the Woman

Her husband was dying, and she was alone with him. Nothing could exceed the desolation of her surroundings.read the short story

story type: 
Horror
Author: 
Gertrude Atherton
Page: 
4

Heine and Mathilde

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

Discovery

The steamer was crowded with people and the crossing promised to be
good. I was going from Havre to Trouville.read the short story

story type: 
Other
Author: 
Guy De Maupassant
Page: 
2

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the
maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran
in this way:read the short story

story type: 
Adventure
Author: 
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Page: 
20

Jorinda and Jorindel

jorinda and jorindelThere was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy
wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy. Now this fairy could take
any shape she pleased.read the short story

story type: 
Children's
Author: 
Brothers GRIMM
Page: 
2

The Sisters

storybusTHERE was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night
after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studiedread the short story

story type: 
Fiction
Author: 
James Joyce
Page: 
7

The Boarded Window

In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of
Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest.read the short story

story type: 
Horror
Author: 
Ambrose Bierce
Page: 
3
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