The Haunted House
Pliny The Younger (62—II3 A.D.)
The Letters of Pliny the Younger (known in Latin as C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) give a pleasant and varied picture...
The Book of Ruth
The Book of Ruth (From the Old Testament)
Into the extremely complicated questions of authorship, origin and development of the Old Testament it is not...
The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse
Jesop (6th Century, B.C.?)
Jesop was “not a poet,” says Gilbert Murray, “but the legendary author of a particular type of story.” This type is...
The Story of Serapion part 9
“He then related a regular romance, with a plot and incidents such as only the most imaginative poet could have constructed. The characters and...
The Story of Serapion part 8
I have no dread of the terror of the deepest solitude. It is only there that a life like this can dawn upon the...
The Story of Serapion part 7
Our old discussion would go on forever. Then there is another point which you ought seriously to consider. You must, I should suppose, perceive...
The Story of Serapion part 6
And such is my fortune also. Every now and then there appear to me emissaries, sent by Satan, who try to persuade me that...
The Story of Serapion part 5
“ `That was so,` said Serapion, turning pale, and his eyes glowing with a somber fire. `But Serapion the martyr, had no connection with...
The Story of Serapion part 4
“Thus equipped, I set out one fine morning in search of my anchorite. “I found him working in his garden with hoe and spade,...
The Story of Serapion part 3
He was taken to the lunatic asylum at B, and there the methodical system, based upon profound psychological knowledge, pursued by the medical man...
