The art of Medicine would not have been invented at first, nor would it have been made a subject of investigation (for there would have been no need of it), if when men are...
The Four Million
"The Four Million" is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths...
O Muiere Bisericoasa
Lăcomie și invidie într-un orășel în vestul Oklahomei.Era o muiere rea și voia să îi controleze pe toți. Aceasta i-a semnat certificatul de...
In Mary’s Reign
First published under the title In Mary’s Reign in 1901, it was re-released under the title The Tangled Skein in 1907.In this historical novel, Queen Mary is characterized...
The Moneychangers
Montague, a member of the elite class of New York witnesses insider trading and manipulation of the stock market by a high financier Dan Waterman who is motivated by revenge. A...
Right Ho, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, the second full-length novel featuring the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, after Thank You, Jeeves. It was first published in...
The Doctrine Of The Mean
The Doctrine of the Mean (Chinese: 中庸; pinyin: Zhōng yōng) is both a doctrine of Confucianism and also the title of one of the Four Books of Confucian philosophy. The...
In A Glass Darkly: Green Tea
Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor...
The Taming Of The Shrew
The comedy begins with an induction in which we follow a drunken tinker being tricked into believing he is a nobleman. He then watches a play depicting nobleman Petruchio's...
Aepyornis Island
It was about the end of the second year our little paradise went wrong. Friday was then about fourteen feet high to the bill of him, with a big, broad head like the end of a...
