Saksagan

“Then she said that she had entrusted a bundle of letters to my late wife; she could not possibly keep them at her own house owing to their peculiar character, and asked whether I...

“We chatted, had supper together and went to bed as usual, each in Our own room. I had by that time decided upon a course of action Which I would carry out with the...

“I can`t say what it was that brought me to the belief that this was but pretense. Man is foolish enough to seek misery in the midst of his greatest happiness.“She had a small...

“I never experienced or heard anything like this before.”There was nothing to be done but to repeat the operation. Everything passed off as it had the first time. The pain stopped, and though the...

“Stop,” he shouted, afraid lest the sufferer should sever a vein. “Since you believe it must be done, very well, I`ll do it.”He then prepared for the operation. When it came to the actual...

“Is that where it hurts?”“Yes. Terribly.”“Do you feel the pressure when I place my finger on it?”The man could not answer, but the tears that came into his eyes told the story.“It`s extraordinary. I...

The Invisible WoundEarly one morning before the famous surgeon was even out of his bed he received an urgent caller who insisted that his case could not be postponed even for a minute; he...

HungaryIntroductionIt would be possible to begin the history of the short story in Hungary with the transplanted legends of St. Francis in the Ehrenfeld manuscript, one of the first books in Hungarian literature, dating...

I, then, tell you that Orpheus has sung well, and is of the elect of the gods. His music intoxicated the whole forest. The eagles drew near and flew above our heads, the flowering...

What forest better than the forest of the satyr, whom he would en-chant, where he would be held as a demigod; a forest all joy, and dancing, and beauty, and voluptuousness; where nymphs and...