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Chapter 02

In My Lady Ludlow

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one…

The Shadow in the Corner

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 006

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

02 The Protest

In Off-Hand Sketches

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T. S. Arthur


The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

035 - Book IV, Chapter 5

In Camilla

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Frances Burney


Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

39 - How to Write a Love Letter

In Framley Parsonage

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Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

Outerman v. Tudor

In The Three Clerks

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Anthony Trollope


The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

A Woman is Only a Woman

In The Clicking of Cuthbert

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P.G. Wodehouse and P. G. Wodehouse


Join the Oldest Member...whether you like it or not...and be carried on a magic carpet ride through the world of golf, love, and...aunts...a…

In The Train

In Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel

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Robert Lynd


This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…

Chapter 08 - A Suspicious Accident

In The Red Thumb Mark

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R. Austin Freeman


Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too…

A Tortoise Shell Home

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

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Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

An Evening In Florence

In The Fortunes of Glencore

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Charles James Lever


Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He …

Chapter XV

In The Fate of Fenella

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Mrs. Hungerford


One book, twenty-four authors ... Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continuall…

On Turning Into Forty

In Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge

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Charles S. Brooks


This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a …

Chapter 6- Treats of Poverty, Pride and Fidelity

In Post Haste

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R. M. Ballantyne


In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …

Noblesse

In American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman


This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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