W. W. Jacobs

FOREWORD THE First Series of One-Act Plays of To-day-the forerunner of the present volume-was frankly an experiment. No such collection had ever appeared in England, and no one could predict the sort of reception it would be likely to have. It happened, however, that the book was welcomed from the...

THE LADY OF THE BARGE. The master of the barge Arabella sat in the stern of his craft with his right arm leaning on the tiller. A desultory conversation with the mate of a schooner, who was hanging over the side of his craft a few yards off, had come to a conclusion owing to a difference of...

THE LADY, OR THE TIGER? F. R. Stockton In the very olden time, there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas of life were rather florid and at the same time unrestrained. He was a man of great fancy and he always turned his varied fancies into facts. Among the borrowed notions by which his...

Gerince megtört.

A kisregények és elbeszélések e sorozatában a művészi képzelet és írói megformálás gazdagságával, de mégis az ember ösztönéletének legelsőbb és legősibb megnyilvánulásaival találkozunk, ahogy azokat a kultúra és a fejlődés mai fokán a ma embere szívesen éli ki. Mert...

Chapter 1 It was cold and dark out in the road and the rain did not stop for a minute. But in the little living-room of number 12 Castle Road it was nice and warm. Old Mr White and his son, Herbert, played chess and Mrs White sat and watched them. The old woman was happy because her husband and...