Nile, Stuttgart and New Delhi
Life on the Nile
A journey by boat from Luxor to Aswan is one the loveliest tripsy you will ever make.
The journey from L uxor...
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,...
One Autumn Night part 3
The girl looked at me, and the terror in her eyes gradually died out.She shook the sand from her hands, adjusted her cotton head-gear,...
One Autumn Night part 4
In a monotonous tone she set about calculating our discoveries.
“A basketful of bottles thick furs a sunshade an iron pail.”
All this was uneatable. I...
One Autumn Night part 5
Our position beneath the shelter of the skiff was utterly devoid of comfort; it was narrow and damp, tiny cold drops of rain dribbled...
