Category: Novels
A wild night, with a gale of wind, a wind that scratched and tore and howled at doors and windows like an angry cat spitting and spluttering--its miauling voice now rising, now sinking--at one moment savage, at another querulous, but always incessant of complaint, with a threa...
Josiah groaned, and then the overpowering dumbness that had seized him before caught him again in its paralysing power. Stricken mute himself, he was nevertheless forced to list...
4. Part 4And then--as though they had been all clashed together by one stroke into silence--the Bells ceased. The shouting and laughter and Paunch-drumming of the Goblins likewise eddied...
1. Part 1A wild night, with a gale of wind, a wind that scratched and tore and howled at doors and windows like an angry cat spitting and spluttering--its miauling voice now rising, now...
3. Part 3“Certainly! I often use telephones! Capital things! They have to do with the currents of the air, you know!--and other folks work on currents of the air besides Humans! Humans a...
2. Part 2“Christmas Eve!” repeated McNason, fixing his eyes with cold derision on his abashed overseer--“Peace and goodwill! That sounds like it, doesn’t it?” And he shook one hand with...
7. Part 7“Not so very long ago,”--it went on presently, in a kind of sing-song monotone, “A man I knew went to a ‘Home’ something like this, only not quite so up-to-date and expensive. H...
6. Part 6“Dull place, Westminster Abbey!” it remarked--“Oh hoo-roo! All damp and dismals! I wouldn’t be an England’s great man for anything! It’s the last reward an England’s great man e...