A Domestic Animal part 1
Shimazaki Toson (1871-1943)
Shimazaki Toson began writing as a poet of the new era, but after the Russo-Japanese war, he turned to naturalistic fiction. He...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 5
This condition of lonely self-torment lasted a long while, and increased his exasperation.
And then, one day, he noticed that his healthy foot was growing...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 4
Everything real seemed to disappear; only dimly lighted, vacant space remained, pervaded by the smell of chloroform. He seemed to be in the interior...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 2
“Anton, my dear fellow,” the other, said, “well, you understand what I mean; God knows. You may be sure . . . confound it...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 1
Stefan Zeromski (1864-1925)
Zeromski is an intensely dynamic writer. Not so popular as his older contemporary Prus, he excels in the psychological analysis of his...
Chivalry part 7
Salvador did not leave his patient, encouraging her with cheering words to bear her pains with fortitude. Pedro, ill at ease, was watching die...
Chivalry part 6
The house was full of gossipers of the neighborhood, who had come in armed with infallible remedies which they were anxious to apply to...
Chivalry part 5
Five minutes afterwards the fugitive was sleeping like a log. The night came on without Salvador`s awakening from the deep slumber into which he...
Chivalry part 4
At three o`clock he passed through Atenas and at six in the morning he and his companion arrived at the gates of San Mateo....
Chivalry part 3
Salvador Moreno was a high-strung, refined man to whom the brutality of force was repugnant. At the same time his indomitable and lofty spirit...
