The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 1
Abou Hassan the Wag (Anonymous: ioth to 14th Century, A.D.)
The chief glory of Arabian prose literature is the celebrated collec-tion known to us as...
One Night part 4
A night-watchman loomed up in front of me. “I come,” I said, “to get you to see about a theft which has just been...
One Night part 3
Suddenly I saw, right before my eyes, the inn where we were staying. Trembling, I put the key in the lock. What awaited me...
One Night part 2
The darkness grew thicker and thicker. Unbroken chains of lights glowed along the thoroughfares. One belfry after another awoke and great bells began to...
One Night part 1
Emile Verhaeren (1855-1920)
Emile Verhaeren was one of the most widely read poets of modern Belgium. Influenced at first by the French Parnassiens and Natura-lists,...
The Invisible Wound part 8
“Then she said that she had entrusted a bundle of letters to my late wife; she could not possibly keep them at her own...
The Invisible Wound part 7
“We chatted, had supper together and went to bed as usual, each in Our own room. I had by that time decided upon a...
The Invisible Wound part 6
“I can`t say what it was that brought me to the belief that this was but pretense. Man is foolish enough to seek misery...
The Invisible Wound part 5
“I never experienced or heard anything like this before.”
There was nothing to be done but to repeat the operation. Everything passed off as it...
The Invisible Wound part 4
“Stop,” he shouted, afraid lest the sufferer should sever a vein. “Since you believe it must be done, very well, I`ll do it.”
He then...
