Tag: Fantasy fiction
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE-Chapter Two
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction.—_Old Saying_ Having had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsöornot, a work which…
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Edgar Allen Poe-A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM-Chapter Three
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to…
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE PURLOINED LETTER-Chapter One
THE PURLOINED LETTER Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio.—_Seneca_. At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter One
CHAPTER I.Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on thebank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter One-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II.The Pool of Tears “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, thatfor the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’mopening out like…
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Carrol Lewis-Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III.A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—thebirds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging closeto them, and…