The Boarded Window
Text 29 Ambrose Bierce The Boarded Window In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of...
The Certification of Brandon
Text 8. Crystal Arbogast The Certification of Brandon On the morning of June 5, the sun rose and cast its rays...
The Cricket War
Text 25 Bob Thurber The Cricket War That summer an army of crickets started a war with my father. They picked...
The Five Boons Of Life
Text 9 Mark Twain The Five Boons Of Life CHAPTER I In the morning of life came a good fairy with her basket,...
The Image Of The Lost Soul
Text 12 Saki The Image Of The Lost Soul There were a number of carved stone figures placed at intervals...
The Knights Tale
Text 16 Geoffrey Chaucer The Knights Tale In the morning, the pilgrims got up early and travelled for some time....
The Mouse
Text 15 Saki The Mouse Theodoric Voler had been brought up, from infancy to the confines of middle...
The Purple Of The Balkan Kings
Text 22 Saki The Purple Of The Balkan Kings Luitpold Wolkenstein, financier and diplomat on a small, obtrusive, self-important scale, sat...
The Story of an Hour
Text 6 Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care...
Sense and Sensibility
Text 20 Sense and Sensibility Mr. Dashwood’s death The Dashwood family, Mr. and Mrs. Dashwood and their two daughters, lived...
The Thing You Want
Text 17 Jack Trammell The Thing You Want Outside of what was left of Atlanta, they discovered the great...
Sredni Vashtar
Text 16 Saki Sredni Vashtar Conradin was ten years old, and the doctor had pronounced his professional opinion that...
The Use of Force
Text 22 William Carlos Williams The Use Of Force They were new patients to me, all I had was...
Test “ Passive Voice or Active Voice”
1.William Shakespeare … Romeo and Juliet. а) write; b) wrote c) is written 2. "Oliver Twist” and "Domby and Son” … by Charles...
The Yellow Paint
Text 11 Robert Louis Stevenson The Yellow Paint In a certain city there lived a physician who sold...
Thankful Thing (2)
Text 2 Thankful Thing M. Stanley Bubien I charged into my Grandad's workshop, taking the corner at full-speed because I knew the brand new...
Thankful thing
Text 2 Thankful Thing M. Stanley Bubien I charged into my Grandad's workshop, taking the corner at full-speed because I knew the brand new...
The Adventure of My Aunt.
Text 28 The Adventure of My Aunt. My aunt was a big woman, very...
M. Stanley Bubien
Text 3 She'll Never Admit M. Stanley Bubien Our annual Christmas party. My husband Harry and I threw our first as newlyweds,...
Magic Man
Text 5 Magic Man M. Stanley Bubien My newborn son dozed warmly upon my lap on his first night at home. It...
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde The Model Millionaire A note of admiration Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance...
Return to Paradise
Text 7 Eliza Riley Return to Paradise Lisa gazed out over the Caribbean Sea, feeling the faint breeze against her face...
Scent of Cologne
Text 4 Scent of Cologne M. Stanley Bubien It had been years---nine, ten, something like that---since he'd taken a drink, but having...