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...
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...
