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Mother, Come Back from the Echoless Shore

A famous Mother's Day tribute from the 1860s.... More

The Death Voyage by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, turns 151 years old this month. One of the several stories he wrote for the Post... More

The Second Generation, by Steven Crane

Steven Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, wrote several short stories for the Post. One of them, "The Second Generation", was written... More

How America Is Falling To Pieces Around Us: 1928 Version

An excerpt from Booth Tarkington's memoirs "The World Does Move", which explains why, in some people's eyes, our grandparents were a bunch of vain, shallow,... More

“The Refugee,” by Bernard Malamud

"There seems to be no writer of [Malamud's] background," comments critic Alfred Kazin, "who makes one feel so keenly the enigmatic quality of life."... More

Happy Was The Soldier!

How can the Army punish a man who considers it a privilege to be in the guardhouse?... More

The Classic Books of America, by W. Somerset Maugham

This week, rather than fiction or poetry, we offer a 1940 appraisal of American literature by Somerset Maugham. The noted English author comments on a... More

Moon of the Arfy Darfy, by Nelson Algren

A short story by the author of The Man with the Golden Arm.... More

Swindler’s Luck

The mobsters would kill him if they ever caught on to his game. He was betting his life they wouldn't.... More

A Goboto Night, by Jack London

Jack London grew up an impoverished, illegitimate child in the slums of Oakland, CA, to become arguably the most successful writer of the early 20th... More

Pea Green Boat

William R. Burkett, Jr.'s mysterious duck-hunting tale.... More

Longfellow in the Post

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—a contemporary of Sam Houston—is one of the most American of our poets. Certainly he is better known than most, even if all... More