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The Peasant`s Will part 4
The sons were white with rage, the witnesses shrunk away in terror, and mother and daughter glared at one another with a look of...
The Peasant`s Will part 3
While she seemed agitated and spoke in an excited manner, she was to all appearances telling the truth, and had no intention of deceiving...
The Peasant`s Will part 2
X immediately flew in a passion at the idea of such indignity, and declared it preposterous to expect him to mount a ladder of...
The Peasant`s Will part 1
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911)
Born at Vicenza in northern Italy, Fogazzaro led a very active life, both as senator and writer. Though he studied at first...
The Last Lesson part 4
Then he opened a grammar and read us our lesson. I was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed...
The Last Lesson part 3
Poor man! It was in honor of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why...
The Last Lesson part 2
I had counted on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen; but, of course, that day everything had to be as...
The Last Lesson part 1
Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897)
Alphonse Daudet, one of the masters of the Naturalistic School of modern France, was bom at Nimes in 1840. He made his...
The Shipwreck of Simonides
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...
