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...
Rabbi Akiva
The Talmud is a great collection of law, ritual, precept, and example, which was composed during the period extending from the First Century B.C....
The Robbers of Egypt
Heliodorus (3rd Century, A.D.)
Heliodorus was one of the earliest writers of the novel, or romance. Though he lived long after the close of the...
A Newyear`s Eve Confession part 4
“The devil!” exclaimed the old soldier in surprise; “then you were the cause of that touching farewell letter that Bianca sent me—in which she...
A Newyear`s Eve Confession part 3
The old soldier murmured something and lit his pipe.
“No, she was as pure as God`s angels,” continued the other. “It is you and I...
A Newyear`s Eve Confession part 2
My two old gentlemen sat half in the shadow of the green lampshade, moldering ruins both, from long past days, bowed and trembling, gazing...
A Newyear`s Eve Confession part 1
Hermann Sudermann (1857 – 1928)
Sudermann was born in East Prussia in 1857, and educated at the Universities of Konigsberg and Berlin. He was one...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 10
He looked on the maid right sweetly, and he said, “I will not cease to serve them. Never, while I live, will I lay...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 9
Thinking thus he waxed oft white and red; yea, graceful and proud stood the son of Sieglind, goodliest of heroes to behold, as he...
