🎩 Mark Twain – “A Cure for the Blues” 💡- 1871In a world that takes itself too seriously, one man discovers a remedy for despair — and it isn’t found in any doctor’s bag.Mark Twain’s A Cure for the Blues begins as a simple confession: a man plagued by melancholy claims to have f ...Afficher plus
Washington Irving – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - 1820
🎃 Washington Irving – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820) 🌕A tale where mist drifts through autumn woods and legends ride by night. In the quiet village of Sleepy Hollow, the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane dreams of wealth and love — and of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. But be ...Afficher plus
Willa Cather – "The Enchanted Bluff" - 1909
🌄 Willa Cather – The Enchanted Bluff (1909) ✨A quiet elegy for youth, memory, and the dreams that fade with time. On a soft Nebraska evening, a group of boys camp beside the river, their laughter rising with the sparks of the fire. One of them — Tip Smith — tells of a faraway me ...Afficher plus
Willa Cather "On the Divide" - 1896
🌾❄️ Willa Cather – On the Divide (1896) 🕯️A stark tale of solitude, desire, and the brutal poetry of the frontier.Across the frozen Nebraska plains, life is pared down to endurance. There, amid the silence and wind, a rough Scandinavian settler named Canute drifts through the d ...Afficher plus
Mark Twain - "The £1 000 000 Bank Note" - 1893
💰🎩 Mark Twain – The £1,000,000 Bank Note (1893) 🪶A satire of wealth, illusion, and the grand comedy of human vanity.In fog-bound London, a penniless American drifter is handed a note of impossible value — a single banknote worth one million pounds. 💷 A jest between two idle g ...Afficher plus