The Signal part 2
“You are Ivanov?” he said.
“Yes, your Excellency.”
“How do you come to be here?”
Semyon told him all.
“Where are you off to?”
“I cannot tell you, sir.”
“Idiot!...
The Signal part 1
Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888)
Garshin was all his life subject to melancholia. His work, consisting of only a score of stories, was influenced by his condition,...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 8
Bear with me, my dear Will, until I have told you I have written this letter and what it means. I have concealed one...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 7
At first I was frightened, and fought against it as against something that might grow upon me. I reproached myself for disloyalty in thought....
A Letter and a Paragraph part 6
It was so at the beginning, in the incredible happiness of the first year, and even after the boy`s birth. Do you know, it...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 5
Strangest of all this, that the mad agony of grief, the passion of desolation that came upon me when our long partnership was dissolved...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 4
It was a small matter, but the friendship begun in manly and helpful kindness has gone on for twenty-two years in mutual faith and...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 3
I could only silently pray that he would “give me an easy one,” and that I should not disgrace myself in the doing of...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 2
I tell you, Will, that moment was to me like one of those moments of waking that we know in childhood, when we catch...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 1
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
Bunner`s fame rests on the work he published in the last fifteen years of his life. Born at Oswego, N. Y.,...
