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The room fronted the west, but a black cloud, barred with red, robbed the hour of twilight's tranquil charm. Shadows haunted it, lurking in corners like spies set there to watch the man who stood among them mute and motionless as if himself a shadow. His eye turned often to the window with a glance both vigilant and eager, yet saw nothing but...

I'm N. G. - that's a cinch! The sooner I chuck it the better!...

This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the   emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous   background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the   sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might be the   greater to them as men...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her....

At the southern part of Ohio, where the river of that name swerves from its south-western course, and makes a sweeping bend toward the north-west, many years ago stood a large and imposing dwelling. Its character, so different and superior to others found here and there along the Ohio, showed that its owner must have been a man both of superior...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. War and Peace had swapped corners that morning in the village of Fort Canibas. War was muttering at the end where two meeting-houses placidly faced each other across the street. Peace brooded over the ancient blockhouse, relic of the Bloodless War, and upon...