Literature

The Old Man and the Etrog (A Jewish Tale) Once upon a time, a mother lived with her two children in a little house on…

The kings of steel, of petroleum, and all the other kings of the United States have always in a high degree excited my power of…

Hare and the Big Pot of Beans (An African Tale) Once upon a time in Africa, Hare awoke from a dream. In his dream, he…

I am sure that Nature never intended me to be a self-made man. There are times when I can hardly bring myself to realize that…

Federigo’s Falcon by Giovanni Boccaccio There was once in Florence a young man named Federigo, the son of Messer Filippo Alberighi, renowned above all other…

I The High Street consists of two rows of one-storeyed hovels, squeezed close one against another; old hovels with leaning walls and crooked windows, with…

The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk high of nights, and…

Once in the autumn I happened to be in a very unpleasant and inconvenient position. In the town where I had just arrived and where…

I. The Purple Emperor watched me in silence. I cast again, spinning out six feet more of waterproof silk, and, as the line hissed through…

One day in autumn on my way back from a remote part of the country I caught cold and fell ill. Fortunately, the fever attacked…

“One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o’er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can…

An old man named Daniel Baker, living near Lebanon, Iowa, was suspected by his neighbors of having murdered a peddler who had obtained permission to…