About five hundred people live in Opportunity today The Clark Fork burbles past between poisoned banks alongside Opportunity's pastures The copper that wired America had a price, and...
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and...
CHAPTER 2 Mr. Bennet was among the earliest of those who waited on Mr. Bingley. He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the...
CHAPTER XIX WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM AT SURINAM AND HOW CANDIDE GOT ACQUAINTED WITH MARTIN. Our travellers spent the first day very agreeably. They were delighted with possessing more treasure than all...
CHAPTER I. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...
CHAPTER IX 'We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle...
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett CHAPTER 15. The Magic When Sara had passed the house next door she had seen Ram Dass closing the shutters, and caught her glimpse of this room also....
CHAPTER I. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk...