03:52
Jim Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn
by Mark Twain
One of Mark Twain's most famous short stories, Jim Baker's Blue-jay Yarn, was adapted from a campfire story told by Jim Gillis while Twain and Gillis were prospecting for gold during the winter of 1864-65. It must have been an interesting story in those circumstances; a story about Jays futilely filling a hole, told to men who were fruitlessly digging one. Twain transforms the original into...
Friday, 31 October 2014
03:49
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The Black Cat
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The Black Cat
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat was first published in the August 19, 1843, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The illustration below is an original painting by Anna Pędzik and is used with her permission.
FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would...
Born: June 27, 1838
Died: April 8, 1894
Achievements: Author of Vande Mataram, the national
song of India
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim
Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists
and poets of India. He is famous as author of Vande
Mataram, the national song of India.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was born on June 27, 1838 in
the village Kantalpara of the 24...
Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutta
Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Michael Madhusudan Dutta was a popular 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagordari, on the bank of Kopotaksho River, a village in Keshobpur Upozila, Jessore District, East Bengal (now in Bangladesh). His father was Rajnarayan Dutt, an eminent lawyer, and his mother was Jahnabi Devi....
Monday, 27 October 2014
Title: God Sees The Truth, But Waits
Author: Leo Tolstoy [More Titles by Tolstoy]
In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.
Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was riotous when he had had too much; but after...
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