War with the Normans part 2
Both these men were clever at foreseeing everything, and in grasping the essentials’ and there was no strategic trick unknown to them; they were...
War with the Normans part 1
War with the Normans (1082-83) (i-vii) : Alexius’ First Battle with Heretics – John Italus (viii-ix)
I And meanwhile Robert, entirely freed from anxiety, collected...
The Story of Abou Hassan the Wag or the Sleeper Awakened part 7
It was then the close of the night, and Abou Hassan, awaking, and hearing the sounds of the lutes, and tambourines, and flutes, and...
The Story of Saidjah part 12
An old woman led him to her cottage. She would take care of the piteous fool. His laugh gradually became less horrible, but he...
The Story of Saidjah part 11
He would wait. …
But what if she were ill—dead?
Like a wounded stag he flew along the pathway toward the village. He saw nothing and...
The Story of Saidjah part 10
Saidjah had never learned to pray, and it would have been a pity to teach him: a more devout prayer and a more fervent...
The Story of Saidjah part 9
Who would now be living in her father`s house? Then he thought of his childhood, and his mother, and how the buffalo had saved...
The Story of Saidjah part 8
No, he had sublime visions in his mind`s eye. He looked for the Ketapan tree in the clouds when he was still far from...
The Story of Saidjah part 7
He arrived at Batavia, and asked a certain gentleman to take him into his service, which the gentleman did, because Saidjah spoke no Malay—an...
The Story of Saidjah part 6
Neither on the first nor the second day had he realized how lonely he was, because he was captivated by the grand idea of...
