A Terribly Strange Bed part 5
“Ex-brave of the French Army!” cried I, in a mad state of exhilaration, “I am on fire! how are you? You have set me...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 4
And I did go on—went on at such a rate, that in another quarter of an hour the croupier called out, “Gentlemen, the bank...
A Terribly Strange Bed part 3
If I left everything to luck, and staked without any care or consideration, I was sure to win—to win in the face of every...
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...
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,...
The Shipwreck of Simonides 2
A lerned man has always a fund of riches in himself.
Simonides, who wrote such excellent lyric poems, the more easily to support his poverty,...
The Prodigal Son 2
Music and dance
Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and...
The Jewish Mother 2
The literature of the New Testament (which was written in late Greek) is difficult to classify. It is Jewish, of course, but permeated by...
The History of Susanna 1
The History of Susanna (From The Apocrypha)
Susanna was originally a part of the Book of Daniel, but was set apart as apocryphal, because it...
The Dream 1
Apuleius (Born ca. 125 A.D.)
Lucius Apuleius, author of The Golden Ass, was born and educated in northern Africa. He practised law, was an indefatigable...
