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Anton Chekhov: At Christmas Time

ANTON CHEKHOV – “What shall I write ? ” asked Yegor, dipping his pen in the ink. Vasilissa had not seen her daughter for four years. Efimia had gone away to St. Petersburg with her —> Prosegui lettura >>

Sherwood Anderson: Tales are people who sit on doorstep of…

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SHERWOOD ANDERSON – Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. ♦ Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold —> Prosegui lettura >>

Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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MARK TWAIN – In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W. —> Prosegui lettura >>

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Christmas Tree And The Wedding

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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY – The other day I saw a wedding… But no! I would rather tell you about a Christmas tree. The wedding was superb. I liked it immensely. But the other incident was still finer. —> Prosegui lettura >>

Anton Chekhov: The Slanderer

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ANTON CHEKHOV – Sergey Kapitonlch Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave his daughter Natalya in marriage to the teacher of history and geography, Ivan Petrovich Loshadinikh. The wedding feast went on swimmingly. They sang, played, and —> Prosegui lettura >>

Ivan Turgenev: The Rendezvous

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IVAN TURGENEV – I was sitting in a birch grove in autumn, near the middle of September. It had been drizzling ever since morning; occasionally the sun shone warmly;—the weather was changeable. Now the sky —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edgar Allan Poe: The Philosophy Of Composition

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EDGAR ALLAN POE — Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says — “By the way, are you aware that —> Prosegui lettura >>

Giovanni Verga / Lawrence: Malaria

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GIOVANNI VERGA / (Lawrence) – And you feel you could touch it with your hand—as if it smoked up from the fat earth, there, everywhere, round about the mountains that shut it in, from Agnone to —> Prosegui lettura >>

Katherine Mansfield: Bliss

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KATHERINE MANSFIELD – Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, —> Prosegui lettura >>

Virginia Woolf: How Should One Read a Book?

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VIRGINIA WOOLF – In the first place, I want to emphasise the note of interrogation at the end of my title. Even if I could answer the question for myself, the answer would apply only to —> Prosegui lettura >>

Virginia Woolf

Anton Chekhov: At Christmas Time

Sherwood Anderson: Tales are people who sit on doorstep of…

Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Christmas Tree And The Wedding

Anton Chekhov: The Slanderer

Ivan Turgenev: The Rendezvous

Edgar Allan Poe: The Philosophy Of Composition

Giovanni Verga / Lawrence: Malaria

Katherine Mansfield: Bliss

Virginia Woolf: How Should One Read a Book?

Virginia Woolf: The Common Reader

Edith Wharton: The Vice of Reading

Koizumi Yakumo / Lafcadio Hearn: On Reading (2)

Koizumi Yakumo / Lafcadio Hearn: On Reading (1)