Literature

A man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be…

“Which life or death? It is a gambler’s chance! Yet, unconcerned, we spin and dance, On the brittle thread of circumstance.” I understand that Plodkins…

Once upon a time, there lived a lively cook whose name was Gretel. Gretel wore bright red shoes. When she went into town, she danced…

Playing at Chess is the most ancient and universal game known among men; for its original is beyond the memory of history, and it has,…

“O Mother-nature, kind in touch and tone. Act as we may, thou clearest to thine own” I don’t know that I should tell this story.…

There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse and heavy; but it had high thoughts…

“The quick must haste to vengeance taste, For the time is on his head; But he can wait at the door of fate, Though the…

The Emperor, so they say, has sent a message, directly from his deathbed to you alone, his pathetic subject, a tiny shadow which has taken…

Prince Lotarno rose slowly to his feet, casting one malignant glance at the prisoner before him. “You have heard,” he said, “what is alleged against…

She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of coloring which had once been…

She was best known for her holler….. “Hiioowweeewhooo,” she’d yell, and whenever people heard that sound, they shook their heads with wonder at the thought…

I am losing my interest in human beings; in the significance of their lives and their actions. Someone has said it is better to study…