THE SLANDERER
BY ANTON CHEKHOV Translated by Herman Bernstein. Sergey Kapitonich Akhineyev, the teacher of calligraphy, gave…
THE CURSE OF FAME
BY IGNATIY POTAPENKO Translated by A. Lionel. The small Hall of the Conservatory of Music…
EASTER NIGHT
BY VLADIMIR KOROLÉNKO Translated by Mrs. Aline Delano. It was Holy Saturday in 188-. Evening…
THE LONG EXILE
BY COUNT LEO TOLSTOI Translated by Nathan Haskell Dole. “God sees the truth, but bides…
THE THIEF
BY FEODOR DOSTOIEVSKI Translated by Lizzie B. Gorin. One morning, just as I was about…
THE COUNTING-HOUSE
BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated by Constance Garnett. It was autumn. For some hours I had…
THE RENDEZVOUS
BY IVAN TURGENEV Translated by Herman Bernstein. I was sitting in a birch grove in…
THE WOMAN BEATEN
By Voltaire Zadig directed his course by the stars. The constellation of Orion and the…
THE SUPPER
By Voltaire Setoc, who could not separate himself from this man, in whom dwelt wisdom,…