The Lost Phcebe part 5
I`ll get along now well enough. Yuh just let me be.” And after many pleadings and proffers of advice, with supplies of coffee and...
Zoe and Theodora part 48
The enemy then worked round to their rear and wiped them out to a man, some by the sword, others with their spears. Actually...
The Lost Phcebe part 6
By twelve o`clock of this particular night he was asleep, however, and by two had waked again. The moon by this time had shifted...
Zoe and Theodora part 49
117. After completing his arrangements and taking a fair number of prisoners, Tornicius retired to his own entrenchments in good order. For his part,...
The Shipwreck of Simonides 1
Phaedrus (15 B.C.?—55 A.D.?)
It was the chief distinction of this writer to have collected the Fables of Jesop (or whoever it was who wrote...
Adios Cordera Part 4
Anton de Chinta appreciated this in an indefinite way, and conse-quently said nothing to the children of the necessity for selling the cow.
One Saturday...
The Old Man`s Tale of the Queer Client part 1
Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
The son of a government clerk, Charles Dickens was born at Portsea in 1812. His family moved to London shortly after his...
Adios Cordera Part 5
A few days later the separation took place; the butcher came and brought the money agreed upon. He was asked by Anton to take...
The Old Man`s Tale of the Queer Client part 2
“Many eyes, that have long since been closed in the grave, have looked round upon that scene lightly enough, when entering the gate of...
The Necklace part 1
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
De Maupassant was born at the Chateau de Miromesnil in 1850. Distinguished though he is as a master of the novel...
