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The Dancing Girls
"The Dancing Girls, and Other Stories" contains four short-stories by two-times Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, written between 1910 and 1919. The title story paints a pictures ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
A desperate man wanders around the streets of St. Petersburg. His life having lost its meaning, he is determined to kill himself. Nothing matters anymore and there is no point in m ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Eyes
"Phil, my dear boy, really -- what's the matter? Why don't you answer? Have you seen the eyes?"An older gentleman invites a group of friends over for dinner and to discuss the supe ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders
"Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?"Once a child prodigy, Horace i ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The White Wolf
One day Krantz comes home to witness his wife being unfaithful to him. In a fit of anger he kills both his wife and her lover, who is also Krantz’s lord. Krantz fears the punishmen ...
B. J. Harrison Reads A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
The narrator in the story has just came back from a wedding, but he wants to take us to a Christmas party that he was at several years ago and where he witnessed how big of a diffe ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Invisible Man, a Father Brown Mystery
Isidore Smythe is in danger. He has received threating letters and he does not see a way out. John Angus offers Smythe his help and Smythe is escorted back to his flat. Angus is de ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Blue Cross
Father Brown, an amateur detective, takes up his first case ever. He has to find the infamous criminal Flambeau. The task is however very difficult because Flambeau is a master of ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Knew Too Much
"The Man Who Knew Too Much" tells the story of Horne Fisher and the burden he had to carry throughout his whole life. He knew too much about politicians and aristocracy, about corr ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Secret Garden
Aristide Valentin holds a dinner party in his secret garden, which only has one main entrance. Many people are invited. Julius K. Brayne, one of Valentin’s rivals, is of the party ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Queer Feet
The Twelve True Fishermen are going on their annual dinner at an exclusive club where fifteen waiters are going to serve the guests. The fishermen are refined and insist on using t ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby is a young boy left without a father. Nicholas has to take care of his mother and sister and is forced by his uncle to work as an assistant to the schoolmaster Wa ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Great Expectations
Pip is a poor orphaned boy who lives together with his sister and her husband. Pip is not educated but has great dreams of the future. He is determined to get out of the low class ...
B. J. Harrison Reads David Copperfield
David Copperfield was a little boy who grew up in an unfortunate family. His father died six months before David’s birth. Later his mother remarried to a cruel man who beat him up. ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Baron of Grogzwig
Baron Grogzwig lives a life full of pleasure, drinking and hunting with his friends. But when he decides ´ to marry one of his fellow baron’s daughter, his days change drastically. ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Man Who Lived Backwards
Can you imagine traveling back to the past? What would you find there? Would you like it? Would you find that everything you do has some consequences in the future? Do you want to ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Herland
The three friends Van, Terry and Jeff are about to embark on a mission which will change their lives forever. They have heard of a place where only women live but they are more ske ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Four Just Men
"In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations." When a British politician pushes throu ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Ebony Frame
"Her arms rested on a table beside her, and her head on her hands; but her face was turned full forward, and her eyes met those of the spectator bewilderingly."One day, a man who h ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Descent of Man
"I tell you there's nothing the public likes as much as convictions – they'll always follow a man who believes in his own ideas. And this book is just on the line of popular intere ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Aunt and Amabel
"What would you have done? Rubbed your eyes and thought you were dreaming? Well, if you had, nothing more would have happened. Nothing ever does when you behave like that."In 'The ...
B. J. Harrison Reads Afterward
'You won't know till afterward. You won't know till long, long afterward.'When Ned and Mary Boyne hear that their new house is haunted, they laugh it off and joke that every good h ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Witch Caprusche
"I will not suffer thee, ungrateful girl, to rule my people according to thine own capricious will!"The king of Denmark is extremely frustrated with his daughter. Not only does she ...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Enchanted April
"... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer."Lottie and Rose belong to the same London women's club, ...