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...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 13
He saw everything as it was; everything asked him, Dost remember. He remembers! he sees broad fields; between the fields, woods and villages. It...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 12
Who shinest in Ostrobrama and preservest The castle town Novgrodek with its trusty people,As Thou didst give me back to health in childhood,When by...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 11
The society had sent him the books with thanks. The books came in the natural way; but at the first moment the old man...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 10
Whole weeks passed in this way, so that no one saw him and he saw no one. The only signs that the old man...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 9
Farther on, between Aspinwall and Panama, was a great forest over which every morning and evening hung a reddish haze of exhalations—a real tropical...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 8
From early morning a light eastern breeze brought a confused hum of human life, above which predominated the whistle of steamers. In the afternoon...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 7
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another...
The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall part 6
It is true that such modest happiness was his due; but he was so accustomed to disappointments that he thought of rest as people...
