What Vasile Saw part 5
“Wood—wood! I was to find wood,” he grumbled. “Where in this damned desert is there any wood I wonder! My God, what a night!
The...
What Vasile Saw part 4
Vasile shrugged his shoulders. “As you will,” he said, slinging his gun upon his back and without further protest set out, wading with stiff...
What Vasile Saw part 3
A gust of wind whirled up a great wave of snow and each man turned so as to meet the onslaught with his back.
“A...
What Vasile Saw part 2
Their burly guardians paid little attention to them; in short sentences which the wind seemed to rend, they were talking to their only young...
What Vasile Saw part 1
Marie, Queen of Roumania (1875-1935)
JUST as one never thinks of Conrad as anything but an English writer, so one considers Queen Marie as Roumanian....
The Father part 2
Eight years more rolled by, and then one day a noise was heard outside of the priest`s study, for many men were approaching, and...
The Father part 1
Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910)
Bjornson was one of the founders of modern Norwegian literature and as dramatist, poet, novelist, moralist and politician he was a leader...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 5
“Oh, ouch, oh!” shrieked the devil. “Oh, please let me out, and I`ll promise faithfully never to come back again.”
“Well, now, I guess the...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 4
“Thanks,” said the devil, sitting down in the armchair. But no sooner was he seated than the smith told him that, as he looked...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 3
“Well, then, I wish, first, that whenever I tell someone to climb up into the pear tree outside the smithy wall, he will have...
