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 as though I should have to give my consent after...
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 in many professions during his youth, and was a writer...
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 of the region and put the pieces of the jigsaw...
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 in the kitchen on the ground floor, and while he...
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 for charity`s sake! Take compassion on a poor unfortunate!”And what...
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 cried out in the squeaking violins, the discordant harps, the...
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 follower of the tradition of Manzoni, and wrote graceful travel...
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 1621. He studied at Rheims and Paris, though he returned...
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 mare was sud¬denly frighted, and springing forward on the instant...
