Some people contended that the reason Mademoiselle Reisz always chose apartments up under the roof was to discourage the approach of beggars, peddlars and callers. There were plenty of windows in her ...

Sometimes, books emerge and are immediately recognized as landmark texts, selling hundreds of thousands of copies and catapulting their authors to the "voice of a generation" fame. Kate Chopin's "The ...

There was a garden out in the suburbs; a small, leafy corner, with a few green tables under the orange trees. An old cat slept all day on the stone step in the sun, and an old mulatresse slept her ...