Classics Read Aloud

<p>The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson</p><p>“Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”</p><p>I had the explosively beautiful Spring chapter of “Jean...

<p>The End of the World: A Vision by James Kirke Paulding</p><p>“In the course of my wanderings, methought I encountered the celebrated Fire-King, who was sitting at home, quietly smoking his cigar, and calculating that...

<p>“And so it appears that all these five blocks of buildings are at work, and inferior cotton is sold in the Eastern markets, simply that Christina Dmitryevna may eat sterlet and drink Madeira.”</p><p>In 1890, Anton...

<p>“Four little chests all in a row,Dim with dust, and worn by time,Four women, taught by weal and woe,To love and labor in their prime.”</p><p>Louisa May Alcott’s bestseller, Little Women, has been a cherished favorite...

<p>“I would prefer not to.”</p><p>Today, Moby-Dick is regarded as one of the greatest novels in American history and a towering achievement for its author, Herman Melville. Not so when it was first published: Sales were...

<p>“Most philosophers must have been raised on chicken farms.”</p><p>Depending on who you ask, Sherwood Anderson is either a genius who ushered in a new era of American storytelling or the unfortunate progenitor of...

<p></p><p>“He was not really disappointed to find Paris was so empty. But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous. It was not an American bar any more—he felt polite in it, and not as if he owned it. It...

<p>“Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes. She answered nothing. She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a...

<p>“Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.”</p><p>Guy de Maupassant was like a flash of lightening on the literary scene. He had a short life and a shorter writing...

<p>Paste by Henry James</p><p>“She had laid the pearls on his table, where, without his having at first put so much as a finger to them, they met his hard, cold stare.”</p><p>There is something about the writing style...

<p>The Hounds of Fate by Saki (H. H. Munro)</p><p>“Three pounds goes but a little way in the world when there is nothing behind it, but to a man who has counted his exchequer in pennies it seems a good...

<p>Peter Pan, An Excerpt, by J. M. Barrie</p><p>I was inspired to pick up Peter Pan after reading “What I Learned from Reading Peter Pan to my Children” last year, a most excellent essay from Henry Oliver at The Common...

<p>"Leave It to Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse</p><p>“’Sir?’ said Jeeves, kind of manifesting himself. One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room...

<p>To Build a Fire by Jack London</p><p>“At the man’s heels trotted a dog...The animal was depressed by the tremendous cold. It knew that it was no time for travelling. Its instinct told it a truer tale than was told to...

<p>The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen</p><p>With today’s reading, I’d like to focus your attention on Andersen’s dazzling imagery. This adventurous tale is a treat for our senses and creative...