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...s the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this recording (from an undated English edition). The 1891 edition is entitled In The Midst Of Life; Tales Of Soldiers And Civilians . The Wikipedia entry for the book uses the title Tales of Soldiers and Civilians . Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 –...

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Satire, Short stories, War stories

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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...ission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://s... ...ed by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red O... ...Tableaux (van Gogh) The Author The Suffering of Being Kafka Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart by Sam Vaknin ... ...He was so tiny that I hugged him and wiped the tears from his plump cheeks. I improvised a story about "Adhesa Cottonball", the cotton monster, who... ...stwhile clothes, his chest hirsute, his face adorned with budding beard and whiskers. What story shall I tell him now to clear his eyes? How shall I... ... who did my profile years ago, refused to interview me. He said: "Dead horses do not make a story." My nightmares swelled with equine carcasses disc... ...y Brainbench. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and ... ...th Aharonot, Tel- Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "Th...

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...tionals they?ve contributed reflect all aspects of the writing life: basic motivation, rejection, publishing and succeeding. Spend some time with the writers you love and discover what words they write by. www.robinbayne.com...

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...s “lesson” to my writing, and how to share my own favorite verses with other writers. Many writers keep a favorite quote or Bible verse taped to their... ...liefs, as do every writer’s choice selections. I have asked some of the best writers in the business to share their inspiration with us, their favorit... ...ometimes find myself fortunate enough to 28 have a great idea for part of a story or the lead for an article, the reverse is far more often the case.... ...with the arts. First I saw life-lessons leading to the development of meaty story lines and full-bodied characters. No paper dolls. Yet, I often get... ...hat means overlooking discoveries hidden deep within: God’s purpose in those storybook lives. Such revelation calls for an unveiling of my heart, taki... ...to me, Lord? I’ve also made a new group of friends, people I’ve only known a short time, but with whom I feel very close. We see each other often, e-m... ...thologies, winning first prize in fiction-writing competition, and having my short story published in a literary magazine, I decided it was time to st... ...place has no equal. Remember the journals you kept, the poems you wrote, the short stories that are still tucked away in some old notebook. Y ou wrote... ...o the region and never moved back. She holds an interdisciplinary degree in English, history and drama and a law degree from the University of Richmo...

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...88 writers (in addition of folklore collections) from 23 countries with texts in 17 languages (English, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Tamil, Hindi, Indonesian, Hebrew, Italian, Urdu, Russian, Ser...

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...ROOM. OF BENEDICT ARNOLD IN ENGLAND IN 1801. The Ads are Separated by a Short Vocal I~~zzo. TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD ACT I The mar... ...hee; Greece sends thee this song; a song of tribulation. For there is no short cut to Antiquity: therefore endure. Father Hudson. Woe, woe, woe is... ...t thing is man and his suffering very little. If he can but endure for a short time, death saves him. Lo, his release cometh and his happiness is ... ...erious than any since the Duke Brought back King Charles. Two true- born Englishmen, If you'll accept my hand, shall this day place I A jewel in... ...o mirth can my voice be tuned, while these two men converse. Often their story comes to me in the night, and causes weeping. One, the young trouba... ...:&. - :,:@;+ the ending of that man, i, : WJ, &%,; ,,., ose fate and story clinging to my .jig$;:: !.,-$'" 2.'. , :> 6- name Do make me hum... ...r of Men. Human was his end, very moving. Wouldst thou wait awhile, the story now? Father Hdon. Now, now, my son! Invocation. [Sung in contralto ... ...ive up the scene, give up, ye sordid - rocks, The last of Arnold in his English home, Which in your bosom lives for evermore, A deathless picture... ...m lives for evermore, A deathless picture; England cast it out Not being English, and it shivered on, Coiling about the world, till it was caught ...

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...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...h his magazine, "Revealing Babes," which lay at his side. The title was in English but the nude women and what little writing there was within it were... ...sweatshops. Independence, you know. They will be facing starvation in Laos shortly. Early death is like being a marathon winner, don't you think? Guys... ...en, at the age of eleven, his loose underwear fell through the legs of his shorts. From that point forward he did not oppose his family's will to have... ...to serve obscurely and enter the world of implausible comic book scenarios shortly before sleep. Back then noodles, comics, and sleep had given to him... ...mulous cloud. Only the storms, the headlines of the masses that he read in English from the Bangkok Post, would get his attention. A female beggar on ... ...a European?" "No, a Thai woman who is darker than us both. That is another story." "Why did you marry her if she is so dark and ugly and likes to hit ... ..., thickets of verdant weeds and knee high grass, sickly palm trees and two-story shacks where the bottom halves had such high earthy foundations and t... ...eem permanent a few years from now, Noppawan would no doubt tell her son a story in which, for some families, there were no daddies. She might say tha... ...yboy, was appealing enough to be referred to as "Naughty Nawin" with those English words in their headings proving that he had not turned into mushy a...

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...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as ...

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...of a fusion of cosmic and human forces. The Odyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is b... ... these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into English... ...ral titles of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of ... ... Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles... .............................................. 221 CHAPTER XLII: MORE ON THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY THAT ULYSSES TELLS PENELOPE ....... 225 CHAPTER XLII... ...earn to synthesize them continuously so he can transform his life. The story of the Odyssey is not an epic poem about the valor of arms and mili... ...birth and death of both humans and the universe, and whether it be long or short, humanity and the universe can create a new life form that is super... ...ing about this crime. The uterus is the earthly paradise that is, however, short-lived, not because Adam eats the apple, but because the mother mort... ... isn’t strong like Diomedes and he is not an athlete like Achilles. He’s short and stocky. He is a gifted speaker and he is often chosen for missi...

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...omeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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... Sang Huin sighed. He took off his shoes in the bus. He stroked his feet, in short white sports socks, across the vinyl of the back of the chair befor... ... despised him and suspected his son was gay; and that Yang Lin felt that his English level was the same as his Korean. Abstract ideas must not have e... ... as his Korean. Abstract ideas must not have existed in his head at all. In short, he "knew " very little and the scanty but pathetic information he ... ...hing him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little did they know of the pleasurable respites from p... ...hool friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spoke in English the entire time neglecting his school friend from the conversatio... ...himself on a bench near a row of lockers believing that what he had was some story unrestrained by notes but when he put the pen to paper notes exuded... ...en his age seated on other stools. Walking from the mokotong he thought of a story that he often read to the children in Kwang Sook's kindergarten in ... ...cknowledge his handicap of linguistic ignorance. They demanded more than his short, concrete, and ungrammatical utterances. If he had been an Anglo-Sa... ...burly, isolated and insulated but worldly and perceptive. Sang Huin sensed a story within her. It was not music. She had too many notes. The stagnatio...

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...lectric trains took the shovels from the coal shoveling firemen on the old English trains. And how many years was it before the British government wa... ...hy. The rewards of living in Singaling outnumber the frustrations of the short sighted self centered desires which most people on the planet hold. ... ...he legal age through disability and other such loopholes. Over a third of Englishmen and over a quarter of Dutchmen have also taken such early retir... ...t one robot. Among other things they teach the children math, science and English. We use their robotics technology extensively.” —“Korea l... ...rld areas dominated by the religions of Abraham.” —“Certainly the short sighted leaders in those regions will call it genocide. But aren‟t yo... ...ay--a yesterday with no global warming, no terrorism, no famines, no water shortages, no nuclear threats. That „once upon a time‟ era may not have be... ...ualitarian Europe things aren‟t as good as we might expect. It‟s the same story, if a woman wants a full time career, motherhood or the expectation o... ...ry, the right to marry and found a family, and other such rights. But the writers of the document put some boundaries on these rights. Military serv... ...as whole and complete. If a bad guy kills somebody, that‟s the end of the story. They don‟t understand that the bad guy usually gets caught at the e...

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...” ALICE S. MORRIS in Harper’s Bazaar: “He tells a haunting and beautiful story and manages to telescope, in a brilliantly leisurely way, a lifetime... ...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...hacienda life, Forward, Children!, a powerful antiwar novel, and numerous short stories. He was also the author of books of poetry, including Spokes ... ... comparing, whose was finest, whose was thickest. Atthis, whose hair was shortest, bragged she could swim the farthest. That started an argument. ... ...heir stories and jokes. I hear his smooth, somnolent voice...an effortless story- teller! “I will certainly come and visit you,” he writes. “I am ti... ...nds, songs, dances... Then, someone came to me, brimming with the amusing story: Kleis has been heard to say that she doesn’t know how old she is! ... ...you try? We need new blood.” I suppose he is right. If we rely on the old writers altogether, the stage will become stale. Perhaps I can think of so... ... holding them up, tipping them, draining the juice, laughing. They had on shorts and were brown, incredible ocean brown. Then Phaon saw me. Hurried... ...e first official copies of the Declaration of Independence. In the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the ...

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...is new hurt was tempered by the knowledge that boys were like that. In her story books, the boys often teased the girls, so Roger’s dismissal was only... ...icy calm settled over her. I will not face this alone, no way! She stopped short when she saw the car in Roger’s drive- way, and marched up to the fro... ...it the small payments that Lacey gave her for ‘her job’. Lacey enrolled in English Lit at the university. She took bridge lessons, and went once a wee... ...sed the backspace and they disappeared. What fun! Hey! Maybe I can write a story, or a maga- zine article. She typed, and stared at the screen: Rosali... ... largest ad in the yellow pages. And then she sat down and started another story. 33 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE ON THE FIRST OF DECEMBER, 1987, it was Lacey... ...was thinking about her little house that she would own out- right in a few short months; her two cats, and Barney, her beloved Scottie; her good healt... ...o in Clearwater. From her balcony she could see the pier and it was just a short distance to the beach where she had walked for miles trying to make s... ...n surveyed them slowly from 250 SUSAN BRACKEN head to toe. “Can you speak English?” Lacey asked. “No, no puedo,” he said, staring at her. So Lacey he... ...id the older of the two. He leaned closer to Lacey and in heavily accented English repeated, “Lady, you are breaking the law .” Lacey felt like she wo...

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...90's I had occasion to fly the Concord from Paris to Los Angeles. It left shortly after sundown. To my amazement as we flew west I saw the sun rise i... ... all assumed that it was true for all times because it was so logical. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. That‘s obvious. ... ...Equator so we have to use different assumptions than Euclid‘s to find the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwe... ...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ...til he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there is no requirement. It was legal for Englishmen to... ... liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Engli... ...ple, for the Jews the command not to murder might be brushed aside by the story of Saul, who was chosen by God to lead His people. (6) ‗When Samuel c... ...rd to the Pacific Ocean. Yes Con.‖ --―Wanda, you may have heard the story about when President John Kennedy was entertaining 49 Nobel Prize wi... ... of these have been very recent.‖ 94 ---―I have to admit that the story of the healings at Lourdes has always fascinated me. I wonder if the...

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...of life?‖ —―Don‘t you believe in Monday Night Football? What could be more meaningful? But seriously, few people want to believe that this short ... ...our own status is a cultural universal for the immature. Is it human nature to try to be physically or psychologically superior? Remember the story ... ...of red wine a day.‘ That person‘s knowledge of the effects of alcohol were incomplete because that much red wine would be much more likely to shorte... ...o our young people. We don‘t want our young people to be held back because of what Adler called ‗organ inferiority‘. Being extra tall or extra short,... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...me ‗power over‘ behaviors. Joining a gang to fight. Having a child to boss around. It could be controlling a wife or husband. You know the old story ... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis... ...e basic ingredient, the soul of your well being, is your attitude. A positive, optimistic outlook is essential. ―You have probably heard the story ...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made...

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...Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray “Catherine” A Story by Ikey Solomons, Esq., Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ... Junior. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...st be added, entirely indiffer- ent about his birthplace; but speaking the English language, and having been during the course of his life pretty gene... ...ke the trouble to inquire. He was a Bavarian by birth (his mother being an English lady), and enjoyed along with a dozen other brothers the title of c... ...n two months to be angry, in three to proceed to blows and curses; and, in short, to repent most bitterly the hour when he had ever been induced to pr... ...no relish with them like a good strong vice, highly peppered. W ell, to be short: Doctor Dobbs, though a profound theologian, was a very simple gentle... ... a wife. And here, having brought him upon the scene again, we may as well shortly narrate some of the principal circumstances which befell him after ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...arise. He is the friend of the young especially. Have we not read, all the story-books that his wonderful pencil has illustrated? Did we not forego ta... ...s bidden by his master not to laugh while waiting at table—”Don’t tell the story of Grouse in the Gun-room, mas- ter, or I can’t help laughing.” Repea... ...ugh at Falstaff and the humor of Joseph Andrews; and honest Mr. Pickwick’s story can be felt and loved by any person above the age of six. Some may ha... ...e, at the present moment, the En- glishman on the stage is the caricatured Englishman at the time of the war, with a shock red head, a long white coat... ..., and thought their occupations and amusements were those of all high-bred English gentlemen. Tom knocking down the watchman at Temple Bar; Tom and Je... ...y of the moment, left up stairs his br—; his—psha! a part of his dress, in short, with a number of bank- notes in the pockets. Look in the next page, ... ...es, policemen, tall life-guardsmen, charity children, pumps, dustmen, very short pantaloons, dandies in spectacles, and ladies with aquiline noses, re... ...18 George Cruikshank man have something in him essentially absurd? Why are short breeches more ridiculous than long? What is there particularly jocose...

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... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylva nia St... ... an electronic transmission, in any way. The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Ele... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Battle of the Books And Other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books and Other Short Piec... ...ut the rest, infi nitely the greater number (and especially we French and English), were so far from stooping to so base an example, that there never... ... usual road, nor even in their prefaces write common sense or intelligible English. Then for their observations and predictions, they are such as will... ...IS AND PHILEMON IMITATED FROM THE EIGHTH BOOK OF OVID In ancient times, as story tells, The saints would often leave their cells, And stroll about, bu... ... sev eral digressions, findeth a hint that putteth him in mind of another story, which he promiseth to tell you when this is done; cometh back regula... ..., and so goes on. And, to crown the business, it perhaps proveth at last a story the company hath heard fifty times before; or, at best, some insipid ...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...er voice, that would have unsettled her tranquillity for ever. But nothing short of such dreadful experiences could avail to unmask Mr. John Williams.... ...cted for the subject of this present Saturday night’s performance. And the story current at that time about the connection between Williams and Marr, ... ...Calcutta; that they had quarrelled when at sea; but another version of the story said—no: they had quarrelled after returning from sea; and the subjec... ...towards each other. Some circumstances give a color of probability to this story. Otherwise it has sometimes happened, on occasion of a murder not suf... ... Marr, on this particular Saturday night, would be content if it were even shorter, provided it would come more quickly, for he has been toiling throu... ...or by way of a tran- sient retardation to the enemy, that might give him a short warning, and in the worst extremity, might give him a chance for life...

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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...cey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... and the mysteries of our human nature: that constitution of faculties, in short, which (amongst all the generations of men that from the beginning of... ...s, I was drained of my money very rapidly. In a fortnight I was reduced to short allowance; that is, I could allow myself only one meal a day. From th... ... is, having no reason to think that our meeting could, in consequence of a short interruption, be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so ... ...esire which it was almost humiliating to me to recollect. I remembered the story about Otway, and feared that there might be dan- ger in eating too ra... ... London three days after I had quitted it. And now I come to the end of my story. The Jews did not approve of Lord D—’s terms; whether they would in t... ... or, on the other hand, by pass- ing lightly over this critical part of my story, I must forego the benefit of a stronger impression left on the mind ...

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...Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...f which they walked sharply… . “I say, daddy,” she began, and was suddenly short of breath. “If it’s about that dance project,” he said, “it’s no good... ...was a skimpy dress of red canvas, trimmed with cheap and tawdry braid, and short—it could hardly reach below the knee. On the same peg and evidently b... ...ared in new, bright costumes. She had to wear cream and a brown sash and a short frock and her hair down, and Gwen cream and a brown sash and a long s... ...amental pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc., etc. Through a... ... shining through the quiet self-possession of her face. She was dressed as English girls do dress for town, without either coquetry or harshness: her ...

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...BLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICT...

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...aight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania S... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... philosophy; to ev- ery normal boy the gate of good literature is the good story. It is the narrative skill of De Quincey that has secured for him, in... ...losterheim. Give him Bergmann’s account of the T ar- tar Migration, or the story of the Fighting Nun,—give him the matter,—and a brilliant narrative w... ... matter,—and a brilliant narrative will result. Indeed, De Quincey loved a story for its own sake; he rejoiced to see it extend its winding course bef... ...s Miniature Series of Great Writers. London: George Bell and Sons. [A good short life.] 6. A. H. JAPP . Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writ- ings. Lo... ...se many colleges the custom permitted the student to keep what are called “short terms”; that is, the four terms of Michaelmas, Lent, Easter, and Act,... ...ge fund of profits in the fractional trips of chance passengers riding for short distances of two or three stages. In Scotland this chance counted for...