Human Odds and Ends: Stories and Sketches (1898) The ordinary West-End Londoner–who is a citizen of no city ... Read more
Social Criticism Short Stories
Total Stories: 86
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906). ‘Farmiloe. Chemist by Examination.’ So did the good man ... Read more
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906). It was not easy for Mr. Daffy to leave ... Read more
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906). Harvey Munden had settled himself in a corner of ... Read more
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (1906). Strong and silent the tide of Thames flowed upward, ... Read more
THERE was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, ... Read more
I. Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life ... Read more
He lived on the bank of a mighty river, broad and deep, which was always silently rolling on ... Read more
Being rather young at present–I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young–I have no ... Read more
Once upon a time, a good many years ago, there was a traveller, and he set out upon ... Read more
Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, ... Read more
I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German ... Read more