The Vampire part 3
The Sea of Marmora was but slightly ruffled and played in all colors like a sparkling opal. In the distance the sea was as...
The Vampire part 2
All the more agreeable was the Polish family. The father and mother were good-natured, fine people, the lover a handsome young fellow, of direct...
The Vampire part 1
Czechoslovakia
Introduction
Czech literature is usually considered as beginning with the writings of the great reformer, John Huss, who was born in the 1360`s. He was...
Chivalry part 7
Salvador did not leave his patient, encouraging her with cheering words to bear her pains with fortitude. Pedro, ill at ease, was watching die...
Chivalry part 6
The house was full of gossipers of the neighborhood, who had come in armed with infallible remedies which they were anxious to apply to...
Chivalry part 5
Five minutes afterwards the fugitive was sleeping like a log. The night came on without Salvador`s awakening from the deep slumber into which he...
Chivalry part 4
At three o`clock he passed through Atenas and at six in the morning he and his companion arrived at the gates of San Mateo....
Chivalry part 3
Salvador Moreno was a high-strung, refined man to whom the brutality of force was repugnant. At the same time his indomitable and lofty spirit...
Chivalry part 2
The present version, translated by Gray Casement, from the volume, Costa Rican Tales, copyright, 1905, by Burrows Co., Cleveland, is here reprinted by permission...
Chivalry part 1
South America
Introduction
From the very earliest years following the conquest of Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century there have been Spanish- American writers, and though...