Love and Bread part 2
“I suppose you are both set on marrying, and I don`t doubt but what you are really fond of each other. So it seems...
Love and Bread part 1
SwedenAugust Strindberg (1849-1912)August Strindberg, born of a poor and humble family, is one of the most celebrated figures in modern European literature. He engaged...
Private Balkan trip
Wake your senses up with private Balkan tripA private Balkan trip in the Balkan countries means a good possibility to sink into the history...
Mendicant Melody part 4
The exhausted and famished tenor sings to the capon hanging outside an upper window, as he inhales the appetizing aroma of the roast cooking...
Mendicant Melody part 3
What strange subterranean passages of sentiment and tone, from the lively airs of the opera-bouffe to the plaintive entreaties directed toward deserted windows!“Signori, something...
Mendicant Melody part 2
Evidences of poverty and misery and signs, of a life of hardship were manifested by the instruments themselves; the voice of weariness and anguish...
Mendicant Melody part 1
Edmondo De Amicis (1846— 1908)De Amicis is best known to the world as the author of the children`s classic, Cuore. De Amicis was a...
The Four Friends
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695)One of the great figures of the age of Louis XIV, Jean de La Fontaine was born at Chateau-Thierry in...
The Priest and the Mulberries part 2
“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the...
