A Terribly Strange Bed part 2
We had come to see blackguards; but these men were something worse. There is a comic side, more or less appreciable, in all blackguardism : here there was nothing but tragedy—mute, weird tragedy. The...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 1
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, an editor and a dramatist. He was rather more interested...
The Story of Devadatta 1
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 Stories, based upon Buddhist stories, traditions, and an earlier collection...
The Raising of Lazarus 1
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, it is a perfect example of the short story. The...
The Matron of Ephesus 1
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 year 66. Writer, government official, dilettante and friend of Nero,...
The History of Susanna 2
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 the maids away. Then a young man, who there was...
The Dream 2
Howbeit the ways were unknown to me: and thereupon I took up my packet, unlocked and unbarred the doors, but those good and faithful doors, which in the night did open of their own...
The Book of Ruth 2
Then Naomi her mother-in-law said unto her:—-“My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee? And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou...
Rabbi Akiva 1
The Talmud is a great collection of law, ritual, precept, and example, which was composed during the period extending from the First Century B.C. to the Fourth Century A.D. The work was the result...
Horatius at the Bridge 1
Ancient RomeIt is a commonplace of literary history that Roman art was largely imitated or derived from the Greek, and in particular that Roman literature contributed little to the world`s store of masterpieces. Yet...
