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Mendicant Melody part 2

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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

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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

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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

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“God!” said he, “if any one now should cry `Gee up!` ” He thought and spoke the words at the same moment, whereat the...

The Priest and the Mulberries part 1

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The Priest and the Mulberries Anonymous: 12th or 13th Century Practically nothing is known of the author of this pleasant little Fabliau. Compared with the great...

The Matron of Ephesus

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Petronius (Died 66 A.D.) Gaius Petronius Arbiter was born some time early in the First Century of the Christian era, and committed suicide in the...

The Jackal

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The Jackal (Anonymous: 14th Century A.D., or earlier) Nothing is known of the author of the Hitopadesa, a manual of didac-tic fables composed—on the basis...

Horatius at the Bridge

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Ancient Rome It is a commonplace of literary history that Roman art was largely imitated or derived from the Greek, and in particular that Roman...

King Rhampsinitus and the Thief

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Herodotus (484—424 B.C.) Herodotus, the Father of History, is celebrated as a teller of tales. These he introduced into his History partly for purposes of...

Little Briarrose part 3

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After long, long years, there came again a kings` son to that country, and heard how an old man told about the briar hedge;...

Tuzdagi

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