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CHAPTER XVI. A cold rain began to fall, and the blurred street-lamps looked ghastly in the dripping mist. The public-houses were just...

CHAPTER XII It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards. He was walking...

CHAPTER VII. For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night, and the fat Jew manager who met them at the door was beaming...

CHAPTER V. “Mother, Mother, I am so happy!” whispered the girl, burying her face in the lap of the faded, tired-looking woman who, with...

CHAPTER III. At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord...

THE PREFACE The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. The critic is he who can...

A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens PREFACE I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall...

Chapter IX After two years I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill of police and...

Chapter VIII I couldn’t sleep all night; a fog-horn was groaning incessantly on the Sound, and I tossed half-sick between grotesque...

Chapter VII It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night—and, as...

Chapter V When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o’clock and the whole corner...

Chapter III There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like...

Chapter I In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since....

Welcome to the Indie Novella writing course! Here is your change to meet and engage with fellow participants, review and comment on each...

Kamran took him and John out for lunch. They were in a Japanese restaurant having a bento box. The restaurant was in Mayfair; it probably...

And when they had been through all the events, games and demonstrations they sat on the fourth floor in one of exhibition rooms which had...

Trauma freezes time. It was most likely September. It may have been August. It would not have been October. October would have been too...

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