Norman West part 20
In pursuit, then, of these plans he determined first to build some buccaneering vessels, as he had taken Cius (a town on the coast...
The Man and the Snake part 4
Brayton lifted his right foot free of the floor to step backward. That moment he felt a strong aversion to doing so.
“I am accounted...
Victory over the Turks part 14
When day dawned Monolycus with the same intention ordered the Turks to do the same as before. In the meantime Clitziasthlan, the Sultan, arrived,...
Victory over the Turks part 30
X However all the members of the holy synod and the chief monks, as well as the patriarch of that time, Nicholas, decreed that...
The Man and the Snake part 5
The snake had not moved, and appeared somewhat to have lost its power upon the imagination; the gorgeous illusions of a few moments before...
Victory over the Turks part 15
VI When Nicephorus saw that the battle had become a hand-to-hand contest, he dreaded a defeat and therefore wheeled round with all his troops...
Victory over the Turks part 31
Now many tales were going round and his marvellous talk was bandied about on every tongue, so the executioners were afraid that the demons...
St. John`s Eve part 1
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
Born in the Ukraine, Gogol was in many respects the founder of modern Russian literature. His stories of rural life collected under...
Victory over the Turks part 16
Romans acting on the Emperor’s advice
On hearing this the Emperor formed the army into two divisions and ordered one half to keep watch inside...
Victory over the Turks part 32
And I think that men who lived then and associated with him must even now be marvelling at what was done then and think...
