The Higher The Flight, The Lower The Fall part 1
Holland
Introduction
Until comparatively recent times Holland has not produced very much in the way of short stories. Before the beginning of the modem period, and...
The Fairy Amoureuse part 5
Next morning she went down into the garden, wandering from arbor to arbor. In one of them she came upon a man-at-arms, bowed to...
The Story of Devadatta 2
A traveler
So he remained in the veranda of an almshouse near, and at night he suddenly beheld a woman descending with a rope from...
The Fairy Amoureuse part 4
The flames darted upwards in a brilliant array, and all at once out of the shower of sparks the Fairy Amou¬reuse sprang up smiling....
The Fairy Amoureuse part 3
“Odette,” said the fairy in a soothing voice, “I am the Fairy Amoureuse. It was I who sent the young man Lois to you...
The Fairy Amoureuse part 2
She had her room in a turret in a distant part of the castle, and spent her time embroidering lovely banners; she found repose...
The Fairy Amoureuse part 1
Emile Zola (1840-1903)
Emile Zola was one of the most extraordinary writers of the last century. With limitless energy and scrupulous pains he constructed an...
The Mummy`s Foot part 11
Pharaoh opened wide his great eyes of glass in astonishment at my witty request.
“What country do you come from? and what is your age?”
“I...
The Mummy`s Foot part 10
The Princess Hermonthis still held my hand, and graciously saluted the mummies of her acquaintance.
My eyes became accustomed to the dim twilight, and objects...
The Mummy`s Foot part 9
I thought this proposition natural enough. I arrayed myself in a dressing-gown of large-flowered pattern, which lent me a very Pharao¬nic aspect; hurriedly put...
