Lulu`s Triumph part 3
“Have I said anything wrong?”“No, dear, no; you are right. When one loves one marries. It is difficult to awaken love,” and she sighed...
Lulu`s Triumph part 2
“I will stop, I will stop. Well, then, at the races we sat in the front row on the grand stand. Paolo Lovato came...
Lulu`s Triumph part 1
Matilde Serao (1856-1927)Matilde Serao was born at Patras, Greece, in 1856, and was the most distinguished of the older generation of modern Italian women...
The Selfish Giant part 4
“It is your garden now, little children,” said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall. And when the...
The Selfish Giant part 3
Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open...
The Selfish Giant part 2
Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds. Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant...
The Selfish Giant part 1
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Wilde was bom in Dublin in 1854, the son of distinguished parents. His mother, Lady Wilde, was famous for her volumes 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...
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 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...