Drava

As this involuntary twitching would not forsake her, and often seduced her to a little skip before she was aware, she caused her tender feet to be fastened together by a light chain. Her...

Musa found no time to wonder at all this until the dance, which lasted a pretty long time, was over; for the merry gentleman seemed to enjoy himself as much as the maid, who...

Gottfried Keller (1819 – 1890)Keller, one of the most distinguished writers of Switzerland, is claimed by the Germans because he wrote in their language. The son of a Swiss mechanic, he spent a dreamy...

The youth shrugged his shoulders:“How, Oin visible spirit, can I deny that all this that thou prophesiest will come to pass, since on earth one thing always follows from another, and often the most...

Where upon came a great sound as of thunder from the mountain sides, and at the same time exceeding close at hand:“Youth, thou arrest!” And the overpowering weight of the words felled the wanderer....

Arthur Schnitzler (1862 – 1931)Arthur Schnitzler, born in Vienna in 1862, was one of the most distinguished figures in Austrian literature, and a dramatist and fiction writer of international renown. His delicately written and...

She laid the handkerchief in the basket, and also the cross, and closed the lid. But when he looked into her face, he started. Great heavy drops were rolling down her cheeks; she let...

She took his hand, that was not able to prevent her, and unbound the linen. When she saw the swelling, she shuddered, and gave a cry:“Jesus Maria!”“It is a little swollen,” he said; “it...

It is only this confounded ready blood of mine, that always makes a thing look worse than it is.”“Let me come and bind it up, comparello. Stop one moment; I will go and fetch...

She could not repress a start, but her eyes flashed bravely on him. “You may kill me if you dare,” she said slowly.“I do nothing by halves,” he said, and his voice sounded choked...