Category: Short Stories
_These stories were written at various dates previous to 1914, and represent, together with those in the_ CELESTIAL OMNIBUS _volume, all that I am likely to accomplish in a particular line. Much has happened since; transport has been disorganised, frontiers rectified on the ma...
_These stories were written at various dates previous to 1914, and represent, together with those in the_ CELESTIAL OMNIBUS _volume, all that I am likely to accomplish in a part...
2. Part 2"Those mountains to the right--let me show you them." She pushed back a metal blind. The main chain of the Himalayas was revealed. "They were once called the Roof of the World,...
3. Part 3"They were left where they perished for our edification. A few crawled away, but they perished, too--who can doubt it? And so with the Homeless of our own day. The surface of th...
4. Part 4Harold, who did not care for poetry, only shouted. His spirits also were roaring, and he neither looked nor felt a poor invalid. Science had talked to him seriously of late, sha...
5. Part 5"Ah, but it was worse," cried the other, "to look high leftward from Orion and see the Twins. Castor and Pollux were brothers, one human, the other divine; and Castor died. But...
6. Part 6Evening prep. was at 7.30. The girls settled down gloomily, for they were already bored to tears by the new system. But a wonderful thing happened. A regiment of cavalry rode pa...
7. Part 7"I never killed her murderer, for by the time my wrists were well he was in America; and one cannot kill a priest. As for Giuseppe, he went all over the world too, looking for s...
8. Part 8Her arrival was saddening. It displeased her to see the great hotels in a great circle, standing away from the village where all life should have centred. Their illuminated titl...
9. Part 9It was absurd to blame Feo for his worldliness--for his essential vulgarity. He had not made himself. It was even absurd to regret his transformation from an athlete: his greasy...