"In spite of all these diseases, and of all the new ones that continued to arise, there were more and more men in the world. This was ...

At dawn on the 13th the Carnatic entered the port of Yokohama. This is an important port of call in the Pacific, where all the mail-steamer...

The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpit...

But to my astonishment I discovered that with death staring him in the face Abner Perry was transformed into a new being. From his lips the...

I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. ...

Fix emerged from his cabin and went on deck. Passepartout was promenading up and down in the forward part of the steamer. The detective ru...

The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive a...

He opened the big box, and Dorothy saw that it was filled with spectacles of every size and shape. All of them had green glasses in them. ...

"There was one of the Munchkin girls who was so beautiful that I soon grew to love her with all my heart. She, on her part, promised t...

Nor, at any time, by night or day could the mariners now step upon the deck, unless Ahab was before them; either standing in his pivot-hole,...

I wondered why these agile creatures required connecting bridges between the trees, but later when I saw the motley aggregation of half-sava...