German Empire
What brought Turks to Germany was not the German Empire that formed an alliance with the Ottoman Empire and was destroyed together with it...
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,...
Sorcery and Art
The Periodical P worthy of being collected opens the doorsof mysterious worlds to the reader by going into the depths of “Sorcery andArt”.
The Periodical...
The Story of an Heir part 1
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Born in Wiltshire in 1672, of a respected and cultured family, Joseph Addison went to Oxford, and began his literary life by...
Victory over the Turks part 25
And probably it existed even before my father’s time, but in secret; for the sect of the Bogomils is very clever in aping virtue....
The Story of an Heir part 2
This makes me often think on a story I have heard of two friends, which I shall give my reader at large, under feigned...
Victory over the Turks part 26
And he made this monk, who was so many-sided in wickedness, swallow all the poison he offered him by pretending that he wished to...
The Man and the Snake part 1
Ambrose Bierce (1839-1914)
Bierce was born in Ohio in 1839. He served as an officer in the Civil War, and in 1866 went to California,...
The Story of an Heir part 3
His affliction would have been insupportable, had not he been comforted by the daily visits and conversations of his friend. As they were one...
