Modern (19th C)
480
Susanna Moodie - Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy «the bush», as she called it. She and her husband moved to Belleville in 1840, which she referred to as «the clearings». Here she described urban life,...
11 hours 20 minutes
Short Stories
567
Lafcadio Hearn - Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have...
3 hours 51 minutes