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  • cover for The Adventure of the Second Stain

    The Adventure of the Second Stain

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    I had intended "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" to be the last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever communicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not du ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    The Final Problem

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent ...

    Rating: 5.00

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    The Musgrave Ritual

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affe ...

    Rating: 3.75

  • cover for The Five Orange Pips

    The Five Orange Pips

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Rating: 3.00

  • cover for The Super Man and the Bugout

    The Super Man and the Bugout

    By Cory Doctorow

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    "Mama, I'm not a super-villain," Hershie said for the millionth time. He chased the last of the gravy on his plate with a hunk of dark rye, skirting the shriveled derma left behind from his kishka. Ev ...

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    Home Again, Home Again

    By Cory Doctorow

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    The kids in my local bat-house breathe heavy metals, and their gelatinous bodies quiver nauseously during our counseling sessions, and for all that, they reacted just like I had when I told them I was ...

    Rating: 4.00

  • cover for Shadow of the Mothaship

    Shadow of the Mothaship

    By Cory Doctorow

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    It's the untethering of my parents' house that's on my plate today. The flying of a kite on a windy Toronto Hallowe'en day and the suspension of worry for a shiny moment. And sail surface isn't even a ...

  • cover for Return to Pleasure Island

    Return to Pleasure Island

    By Cory Doctorow

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    George twiddled his thumbs in his booth and watched how the brown, clayey knuckles danced overtop of one another. Not as supple as they had once been, his thumbs -- no longer the texture of wet clay o ...

  • cover for The Miller's Daughter

    The Miller's Daughter

    By Émile Zola

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    Pere Merlier's mill, one beautiful summer evening, was arranged for a grand fete. In the courtyard were three tables, placed end to end, which awaited the guests. Everyone knew that Francoise, Merlier ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    Captain Burle

    By Émile Zola

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    It was nine o'clock. The little town of Vauchamp, dark and silent, had just retired to bed amid a chilly November rain. In the Rue des Recollets, one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the ...

    Rating: 5.00

  • cover for The Death of Olivier Becaille

    The Death of Olivier Becaille

    By Émile Zola

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    It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days' illness. My wife was searching a trunk for some linen, and when she rose and turned she saw me rigid, with open eyes and si ...

    Rating: 4.25

  • cover for A Pair of Silk Stockings

    A Pair of Silk Stockings

    By Kate Chopin

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    Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monn ...

    Rating: 4.33

  • cover for A Respectable Woman

    A Respectable Woman

    By Kate Chopin

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    Mrs. Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation. They had entertained a good deal during the winter; much of th ...

    Rating: 3.43

  • cover for Beyond the Bayou

    Beyond the Bayou

    By Kate Chopin

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    The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied ...

    Rating: 3.60

  • cover for Desiree's Baby

    Desiree's Baby

    By Kate Chopin

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    As the day was pleasant, Madame Valmonde drove over to L'Abri to see Desiree and the baby. It made her laugh to think of Desiree with a baby. Why, it seemed but yesterday that Desiree was little more ...

    Rating: 4.14

  • cover for The Kiss

    The Kiss

    By Kate Chopin

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    It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. Brantain sat in one of these sh ...

    Rating: 3.22

  • cover for The Jelly-Bean

    The Jelly-Bean

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety ...

    Rating: 3.40

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    Ivan the Fool

    By Leo Tolstoy

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    IVAN THE FOOL. In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a fool)--and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went ...

    Rating: 3.78

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