A DARK BROWN DOG BY STEPHEN CRANE A Child was standing on a street corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel.Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds […]
A STORY BY O.HENRY[O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), a well-acclaimed American short story writer. There is always an element of surprise at the end of his stories.] A Cosmopolite in a Caféwriter : O.HENRY At midnight the caféwas crowded. By some chance, the
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell the truth.” “I can resist everything except temptation.” “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” “True friends stab you in the front.” “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them
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Short Story What You Want By O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone. In different masquerades, the streets, bazaars, and walled houses of the occidental city of romance were filled with the same kind
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When The Frost Is On The Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock,And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock,And the clackin’ of the guineys, and the cluckin’ of the hens,And the rooster’s hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;O, it’s
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[ R.L. STEVENSON (Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894) was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.] The two Matches One day there was a traveler in the woods in California, in the dry season, when the
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By O. Henry One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times
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The story “The Shadow in the Rose Garden” throws light on the emotional tension of a woman. She loves one man but marries another one out of necessity. In the end, both the husband and the wife are disillusioned but continue living together with a sense of actuality. They accept their new situation in the
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The English story “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant deals with the irresistible temptation to outshine and drastic limitations. What is the summary of the story of the necklace? Matilda is the central character of the story. She herself suggests that there is a very narrow margin between safety and disaster. A mere stroke of
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The story “The Tell-Tale Heart” deals with the abnormal psyche of the narrator who hates an old man for his pale bluish vulture eye. He is very repulsive to the spectacle of the old man’s vulture eye that he decides and plans to kill the old man in order to get rid of the eye
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