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Han Ryner, “The Paradox” (1913)
ORIGINAL THE PARADOX By Han Ryner I know a country in which the inhabitants are always clothed. Beside the woman in labor, the priest and magistrate wait and, as soon as the child appears, seizing […]
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Han Ryner, “The Secret of Don Juan” (1915)
[I’m working my way through the translation of six shorts stories by Han Ryner, published in French in The Smart Set between July 1913 and January 1920. These initial translation are definitely rough, “working” versions, […]
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Han Ryner, “The Little Exile” (1920)
ORIGINAL The Little Exile By Han Ryner On this heavy, stormy summer Sunday, how did I let myself be led to these noisy celebrations? Under a scorching sun, that my companions declared “almost southern,” I […]
Beyond the Labyrinth
A Voyage from Pole to Pole by way of the Center of the Earth (1721)
An Account of a Voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic Pole by way of the Center of the Earth. With the description of that perilous Passage, & of the marvelous & astonishing things that […]
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W. M. Stannard, “Mr. Corndropper’s Hired Man” (1900)
Mr. Corndropper’s Hired Man. (A Companion to “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid.”) BY W. M. STANNARD. _____ THERE was a mild sensation at the East Slowcombe railway station when a stranger, bearing a two-gallon can, carefully crated, […]
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Elizabeth W. Bellamy, “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” (1899)
Ely’s Automatic Housemaid. BY ELIZABETH W. BELLAMY. _____ IN order for a man to have faith in such an invention, he would have to know Harrison Ely. For Harrison Ely was a genius. I had […]
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Edward Page Mitchell, “The Ablest Man In The World” (1879)
The Ablest Man In The World. By Edward PageMitchell. 1879 [Originally published without attribution in the New York Sun May 4, 1879] It may or may not be remembered that in 1878 General Ignatieff […]
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The Symmesonian Letters and Other Tales of the Hollow Earth
This collection of short fiction and satire about “Symmes’ Hole” is intended as a supplement to the archive on the Hollow Earth theories of John Cleves Symmes and includes texts destined for publication in Principles […]
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Paule Mink, “Poor Old Man” (1894)
Panting, along the gray road, which lost itself in the distance in a damp autumn fog, an old man walked, doubled over. Feet bare in worn-out shoes, trousers ragged and dirty, dressed in a thin shirt of blue cloth which covered him without protecting him from the bitter north wind that blew, a cheap cap pulled down over his eyes, an empty beggar’s bag on his back, and in his hand a gnarled stick which he supported his tottering only with great difficulty: his whole aspect inspired a distressing sadness.
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The Exploits of Ravachol (in progress)
THE EXPLOITS OF RAVACHOL The Man with the Dynamite PART ONE THE CRIME OF CHAMBLES I THE INN OF THE GROTTO In these Exploits of Ravachol, the Man with the Dynamite, we will not write […]