Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I ... Read more
Social Commentary Short Stories
Total Stories: 87
(Published in the London Review, 2 March 1861) The prettiest scenery in all England–and if I am contradicted ... Read more
Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount ... Read more
Of all the spots on the world’s surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever ... Read more
The house of Heine Brothers, in Munich, was of good repute at the time of which I am ... Read more
I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster ... Read more
It is generally supposed that people who live at home,–good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, ... Read more
In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of ... Read more
I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine ... Read more
That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own ... Read more
I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I ... Read more
Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital ... Read more