The Invisible Wound part 1
Hungary
Introduction
It would be possible to begin the history of the short story in Hungary with the transplanted legends of St. Francis in the Ehrenfeld...
The Deaf Satyr part 4
I, then, tell you that Orpheus has sung well, and is of the elect of the gods. His music intoxicated the whole forest. The...
The Deaf Satyr part 3
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...
The Deaf Satyr part 2
He was a capricious satyr.
He had two court counselors: a lark and an ass. The first had lost her prestige when the satyr went...
The Deaf Satyr part 1
Nicaragua
Ruben Dario (1867-1916)
Ruben Dario is one of the few Spanish-American writers who have won international celebrity. He first became known as a boy poet,...
The Eclipse part 1
Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)
Selma Lagerlof came of a family of landowners, from that part of rural Sweden which she described in many of her most...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 5
“Oh, ouch, oh!” shrieked the devil. “Oh, please let me out, and I`ll promise faithfully never to come back again.”
“Well, now, I guess the...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 4
“Thanks,” said the devil, sitting down in the armchair. But no sooner was he seated than the smith told him that, as he looked...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 3
“Well, then, I wish, first, that whenever I tell someone to climb up into the pear tree outside the smithy wall, he will have...
The Smith who could not get into Hell part 2
The smith stood by all the time watching Him.
“You`re not such a bad smith, after all,” he said.
“Do you think so?” said Our Lord.
Soon...
