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  On Christmas Day in the Morning

  Grace S. Richmond

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  The Fernalds are an elderly couple, alone now that their children are grown and, mostly, married. But one of their sons realizes how lonely they must be and decides to bring his family together for the holidays to surprise his parents. First published in 1908, this short novel was followed by a sequel, On Christmas Day in the Evening, in 1910.

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  Puppy Love Valentine

  C. Coal

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  Julia lives for her puppy Maisey. And there's nothing her pup likes more than to go to the dog park to chase squirrels and play with other pups.Julia's happy with her life, but maybe Maisey will lead her to the love she didn't even know she was missing.This story is part of the Puppy Love series of clean meet cute short stories about puppies bringing two people together. They can be read in any order.

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  G K Chesterton - Chapter & Verse...

  GK Chesterton

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse. 
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - G K Chesterton - An Introduction 
  2 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  3 - The Song Against Songs by G K Chesterton 
  4 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  5 - The Song of Right and Wrong by G K Chesterton 
  6 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  7 - The Englishman by G K Chesterton 
  8 - The Mystery by G K Chesterton 
  9 - Le Panto by G K Chesterton 
  10 - The Convert by G K Chesterton 
  11 - The Human Tree by G K Chesterton 
  12 - The Secret People by G K Chesterton 
  13 - The Last Hero by G K Chesterton 
  14 - A Prayer in Darkness by G K Chesterton 
  15 - A Ballad of Suicide by G K Chesterton 
  16 - The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton 
  17 - A Somewhat Improbable Story by G K Chesterton

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  Too Early

  Anton Chekhov

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  The story takes place in the village of Shalmovo, where two peasant sportsmen, Filimon Slyunka and Ignat Ryabov, are sitting in a pothouse turned restaurant. Slyunka is an old man who used to be a house-serf and now lives off his old wife's alms. Ryabov is a silent, sturdy peasant. Slyunka and Ryabov are trying to convince the innkeeper, Semyon Mitritch, to give them a gun that they had left as collateral. Semyon refuses, citing the Lenten season and the lack of game. Despite their pleas and promises to return the gun, Semyon remains firm in his decision. Slyunka and Ryabov leave the tavern and decide to go stand-shooting in the forest, hoping to find snipe. They walk to the forest, but find no snipe and decide to wait another five days before trying again. The story ends with the sportsmen walking home in silence. Overall, the story portrays a slice of rural life and explores themes of poverty, longing, and the connection between humans and nature.

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  Northanger Abbey

  Jane Austen

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  Jane Austen's first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.

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  The Railway Police and The Last...

  Hortense Calisher

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  Two novellas from award-winning author Hortense Calisher offering very different journeys: the first looking hopefully forward, and the second, into a painful pastThe characters in these two novellas take introspective, poignant excursions both to where they want to be (The Railway Police) and where they have been (The Last Trolley Ride). In the first, a woman with hereditary premature baldness decides to embrace her unadorned head and hopes to start a fresh life without attachments to the trappings of days gone by. In the second, an elderly man with a working replica of a trolley line in his basement reminisces about the fateful last ride he took on that very line many years ago. In both stories, Calisher probes the characters’ senses of isolation from their respective worlds.

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