Literature

The earth was like an oven. The afternoon sun blazed with such energy that even the thermometer hanging in the excise officer’s room lost its…

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between…

MARFA PETROVNA PETCHONKIN, the General’s widow, who has been practicing for ten years as a homeopathic doctor, is seeing patients in her study on one…

Mark Twain has crashed the lofty gates of the Everyman library, but only with Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, already fairly well known under the…

Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere…

I Misbehaviour A young dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a “yard-dog,” very like a fox in face, was running up and down…

Johnny Appleseed (The Story of John Chapman, 1774-1845) Once upon a time during a terrific rainstorm in Massachusetts, a miraculous event took place, or so…

So! I have climbed high, and my reward is small. Here I stand with wearied knees earth, indeed, at a dizzy depth below, but heaven…

Protector of the Fish (A Hindu Tale) In India, the people say the great Ganges River flows from the toe of Vishnu, the Sun God.…

We do not remember to have seen any translated specimens of the productions of M. de l’Aubepine a fact the less to be wondered at,…

The Chi-Lin’s Gift (A Chinese Legend) Long ago, the emperor of China, tired of his many duties, decided he would spend a day in the…

The wind has got up, friends, and it is beginning to get dark. “Hadn’t we better take ourselves off before it gets worse?” The wind…