Mendicant Melody part 2
Evidences of poverty and misery and signs, of a life of hardship were manifested by the instruments themselves; the voice of weariness and anguish...
Mendicant Melody part 1
Edmondo De Amicis (1846— 1908)
De Amicis is best known to the world as the author of the children`s classic, Cuore. De Amicis was a...
He who Married a Dumb Wife
Frangois Rabelais (149-?-1553)
Rabelais was born at Chinon in Touraine during the last years of the Fifteenth Century. He studied medicine at Montpellier and then...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 2
“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 1
The Priest and the Mulberries
Anonymous: 12th or 13th Century
Practically nothing is known of the author of this pleasant little Fabliau. Compared with the great...
The Jewish Mother
Biblical Literature
It is not surprising that the stories scattered so profusely through the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Talmud, should be mostly moral tales....
The Haunted House
Pliny The Younger (62—II3 A.D.)
The Letters of Pliny the Younger (known in Latin as C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) give a pleasant and varied picture...
The Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth (From the Old Testament)
Into the extremely complicated questions of authorship, origin and development of the Old Testament it is not...
King Rhampsinitus and the Thief
Herodotus (484—424 B.C.)
Herodotus, the Father of History, is celebrated as a teller of tales. These he introduced into his History partly for purposes of...
Little Briarrose part 3
After long, long years, there came again a kings` son to that country, and heard how an old man told about the briar hedge;...
