"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter).William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910),...

In the Yellow Fairy Book, are many tales by Madame D'Aulnoy and Herr Hans Christian Andersen. There are Russian, German, French, Icelandic, Red Indian, and other stories here.

When Savannah’s mother suspects the worst, she immediately starts to find out the truth. And it is up to Savannah and her stepfather to hide every trace of evidence. With...

Margaret, Weston, Johnnie, their father Thomas, their stepmother Sophia—the Moore family are living unhappy lives, with troubles sevenfold. Watch them grow as situations and...

Once upon a time, a long while ago, in fact long before Egypt had risen to power and before Rome or Greece had ever been heard of, and that was some time before you were born, you...

Scenes of everyday life, in which the unexpected is always lying in wait, announced by a letter, a chance meeting, or an apparently insignificant detail that awakes distant...

What if morning brought something other than gold?Milan. The body of a man is found in his apartment. He is lying on the floor in an unusual position, with both his hands on his...

Abelard, Professor of Logic and Canon of Notre Dame, the most celebrated man of his day, being thirty seven years of age and having so far lived the life intellectual and scorned...

« The darkness deepens, the cries without die away, and nothing is left but the shift and falling of the incessant snow from roof to ground. » …Are we...

Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at...