CHAPTER I In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons–Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a fool)–and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went to war, to serve the Cza…
Jack London was an American writer. His fiction and nonfiction works often draw from his experiences in the wilderness—on land and on the sea. London is one of the most translated American authors. His books have been…
Jay Yarn by Mark Twain Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are very few people who can understand them. I never knew but one man who could. I knew he could, …
English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats was eight; his mother…
John Keats devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the La…
The “Far West” is rapidly becoming only a traditional designation; railroads have destroyed the romance of frontier life or have surrounded it with so many appliances of civilization that the pioneer character is rapi…