Archive for January, 2007
The Vendetta
Posted on January 17, 2007. Filed under: Gothic, Guy de Maupassant, Short Stories |
by GUY de MAUPASSANT
PAOLO SAVERINI’S WIDOW LIVED ALONE WITH HER SON IN A poor little house on the ramparts of Bonifacio. The town, built on a spur of the mountains, in places actually overhanging the sea, looks across a channel bristling with reefs, to the lower shores of Sardinia. At its foot, on the other [...]
What The Modern Woman Wants
Posted on January 14, 2007. Filed under: Amanda Chong, Short Stories |
Singapore girl wins Commonwealth essay prize!A 15-YEAR-OLD Singaporean, competing against 16- to 18-year-olds, has won the top prize in a writing contest that drew 5,300 entries from 52 countries.In the annual Commonwealth Essay Competition, Amanda Chong of Raffles Girls’School (Secondary) chose to compete in the older category and won with a piece on the restlessness [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Door in the Wall
Posted on January 6, 2007. Filed under: H.G. Wells, Short Stories |
by H. G. Wells
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One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concered it was a true story.
He told it me with such direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise [...]
