'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful...

With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma of every American arti...

The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the p...

'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'.

'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, non...

'Everything revolved around their love.

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a sli...

Valeria Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name in the marr...

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the cen...

'Respectable people.

'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.

'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignoran...