Saksagan
Squire Petrick`s Lady part 4
Timothy had scarcely noticed the unfortunate child that his wife had borne, after arranging for a meager fulfilment of his promise to her to...
Squire Petrick`s Lady part 3
Timothy Petrick, though a quick-feeling man, was not of a sort to show nerves outwardly; and he bore himself as heroically as he possibly...
Squire Petrick`s Lady part 2
At the time I am speaking of he was a man over eighty, and his son was dead; but he had two grandsons, the...
Squire Petrick`s Lady part 1
Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
Thomas Hardy was born In Dorsetshire in 1840. At an early age he went to Dorchester to study architecture, and later to...
The Story of Devadatta 2
A traveler
So he remained in the veranda of an almshouse near, and at night he suddenly beheld a woman descending with a rope from...
The Raising of Lazarus 2
Martha met him
Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him. The Jews then which...
The Matron of Ephesus 2
Maidservant
But she was ill-pleased by such commonplace consolation, and smote her breast more violently than ever, tearing out her hair and throwing it upon...
The Jackal 1
The Jackal (Anonymous: 14th Century A.D., or earlier)
Nothing is known of the author of the Hitopadesa, a manual of didac-tic fables composed—on the basis...
The Haunted House 1
Pliny The Younger (62—113 A.D.)
The Letters of Pliny the Younger (known in Latin as C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) give a pleasant and varied picture...
The Dove and the Crow 1
The Dove And The Crow (Anonymous: 2nd Century B.C. or later)
It is thought that the collection of fables now known as the Panchatantra had...
