The Massacre of the Innocents part 3
Thesisters of the dead woman and various other relatives got into the cart, andthe curt: as well, for he was old and very fat...
The Massacre of the Innocents part 2
Afterdeliberating a long while in the churchyard, they decided to hide in the woodwhich the Spaniards were to come through, attack them if they...
The Massacre of the Innocents part 1
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
MauriceMaeterlinck was born at Ghent in 1862. He studied for the law, but left forParis after a short career as a lawyer....
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 6
VI. The Melody of Grief
A pale dawn hovered. With the first gleams the sea awoke, stretching its golden scales. Across the heavens as purple...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 5
V. Fever
And because on one dazzling morning the light revealed her de-formation, Pygmalion foresaw her inevitable fate. Without wakening her, when night came he...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 4
IV. Weariness
Thought Pygmalion, not daring to say it in words: “O godly form, despite your divine origin, you shall die. Worm and rot, instead...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 3
III. The Initiation
Pygmalion became her master and her guide. This manner of teaching filled him with a confused intoxication, like to that of one...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 2
II. The Miracle
Evening descended upon these virginal forms. But the white mass resisted the shadows, and when the walls were draped in mourning, these...
The Legend of Pygmalion Part 1
Peru
Ventura Garcia-Calderon (1890—1956)
Ventura Garcia-Calderon, born at Lima of an old Peruvian family, was one of the most distinguished critics and literary historians of South...
The Eclipse part 1
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
Selma Lagerlof came of a family of landowners, from that part of rural Sweden which she described in many of her most...
