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The Four MillionQuote, "Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Kat...The Fall of the House of UsherThe End of the TetherQuote ,"The sacred edifice, standing in solemn isolation amongst the converging avenues of enormous trees, as if to put grave thoughts of heaven into the hou...The Enchanted Island of YewDavid Copperfield
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YouthQuote, "We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago. It was wind, lightn...Marquise de Brinvilliers Celebrated CrimesMarquise de Brinvilliers is Alexandre Dumas's story about this French poisoner. She was sentenced to death for the poisoning murder of her father, brother an...Karl Ludwig Sand Celebrated CrimesQuote, "March 23, 1819, Karl-Ludwig Sand murdered August von Kotzebue, a playwright in the service of the Russian government, because of his criticism of the...DeruesQuote, "And I am not in the habit of running useless risks, most noble cavaliers. You are, it is true, two against one; but," he added, throwing back his clo...YvetteQuote, "But now, all at once, Servigny, by a few words, the brutality of which she felt without understanding them, awakened in her a sudden disquietude, unr...Nisida Celebrated CrimesQuote, "It was the Day of the Assumption in the year 1825; the sun had been up some four or five hours, and the long Via da Forcella, lighted from end to end...Sense and SensibilityThe Adventure of the Devil's FootMenoThe Adventure of the Cardboard Box