FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD – I. As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the —> Prosegui lettura >>
EDITH WHARTON – I. Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed —> Prosegui lettura >>
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 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 – 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 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 – 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 – 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 — 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) – 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 – 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 – 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 – There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson’s Life of Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit —> Prosegui lettura >>
EDITH WHARTON – That “diffusion of knowledge” commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice — the vice of reading. No —> Prosegui lettura >>
KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any really great book we want to read the second time —> Prosegui lettura >>
KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – I wish to keep my promise regarding a series of lectures relating to literary life and work, to be given independently of texts or authorities, and to represent, as far as —> Prosegui lettura >>
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