One Autumn Night part 7
I felt really wretched more from cold than from the words of my neighbor. I groaned softly and ground my teeth.
Almost at the same...
One Autumn Night part 8
But, ugh! it was impossible for me to think that, for cold drops of rain were dripping down upon me, the woman was pressing...
The Disabled Soldier Part 1
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
Goldsmith`s family were Irish people of English descent. Oliver Goldsmith was born in County Longford, Ireland. He went to Trinity College, Dublin,...
The Disabled Soldier Part 2
With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero or a Rabutin complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that...
The Disabled Soldier Part 3
I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put...
The Disabled Soldier Part 4
We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of...
The Disabled Soldier Part 5
“The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore he knew that I understood my business well, but that I shammed...
One Autumn Night part 1
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov, known as Gorky, which signifies “bitter,” was born at Nijni Novgorod in 1868. He was orphaned at nine, and...
One Autumn Night part 2
The evening was approaching, the rain was falling, and the wind blew violently from the north. It whistled in the empty booths and shops,...
