Saksagan

“Ex-brave of the French Army!” cried I, in a mad state of exhilaration, “I am on fire! how are you? You have set me...

And I did go on—went on at such a rate, that in another quarter of an hour the croupier called out, “Gentlemen, the bank...

If I left everything to luck, and staked without any care or consideration, I was sure to win—to win in the face of every...

We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism...

Wilkie Collins (1824—1889)William Wilkie Collins was born at London in 1824. Like his friend Dickens, he was a voluminous writer of novels and tales,...

Somadeva (Flourished about 1070 A.D.)Somadeva (Soma with the Brahminical suffix deva) was a poet of Kashmir. His celebrated collection, the Ocean of Streams of...

The Raising of Lazarus (From the New Testament, John XI)Though this story is part of the larger narrative of the Gospel of St. John,...

Petronius (Died 66 A.D.)Gaius Petronius Arbiter was born some time early in the First Century of the Christian era, and committed suicide in the...

And the elders said:—“As we walked in the garden alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the garden doors, and sent...

Howbeit the ways were unknown to me: and thereupon I took up my packet, unlocked and unbarred the doors, but those good and faithful...