Subcastes

“Big Jim Doggerty was what they call a good guy. That is, he belonged to the tribe of his guys. There is such a tribe in Manhattan. These are the Caribs of t...

“A quarter of a century ago, schoolchildren used to learn their lessons in a chant manner. Their declamatory style was a cross between the sonorous recitativ...

It is rare that a writer - even among the Immortals - can boast such wild popularity as Jerome Klapka Jerome. No one except Jerome can be sure why exactly he...

“Miss Martha Meacham ran a little bakery on the corner (the one, you know? Where there are three steps down and when you open the door, the bell rattles). Mi...

“If it is not possible to detect a starched collar on a caught thief, we are told that this is a most dangerous degenerate, a completely decomposed type, and...

“There are few female caliphs. By right of birth, by inclination, instinct and the structure of their vocal cords, all women are Scheherazades. Every day hun...

“The warden entered the shoe shop, where Jimmy Valentine was diligently making workpieces, and led him into the prison office. There, the warden presented Ji...

This book is being published on the anniversary... There are anniversaries of glory and victories, and there are anniversaries of shame and torment, annivers...

A man got married. At the very least, he lived with his wife for twenty years. And during these twenty years he gave birth to twenty sons, and all of them, a...

A series of entertaining stories from the life of the English patent office. The author is the owner of a patent office and his only employee (patent attorne...