Grandfather`s Birthday Present part 2
Mary was the second daughter. She had been separated from her husband (at the expense of the state!), and was now expecting her fourth...
Grandfather`s Birthday Present part 1
Herman Heijermans (1864-1934)
Herman Heijermans, Jr. made his literary debut in 1892 with a peasant novel, and though he continued to write fiction for many...
A Domestic Animal part 5
“Thither she escaped, hither she ran!”
The confusion itself was very extraordinary.
“Surely, Pup is killed,” Ko chan said, trembling.
At last, she has escaped. A man...
A Domestic Animal part 4
Meanwhile, the spring has come. And at the time when the frost began to melt she seemed to be quite grown up. All the...
A Domestic Animal part 3
It was not only once or twice that she met such hard experiences. But she was not a dog to be crushed down by...
A Domestic Animal part 2
There was an old Mokusei in the garden. She decided to make of their shade her resting place; stretching out her four legs on...
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 3
“Let my fate go whither it listeth.”
In the darkest corner of a ward, in the bed marked number twenty- four, a farm laborer of...
