Thursday, January 26, 2017

"About Love," by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, English Translation by Constance Garnett; Full Text, "About Love" („О любви“), by Anton Chekhov (1898)

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Young Chekhov (left) with brother Nikolai in 1882 ABOUT LOVE AT lunch next day there were very nice pies, crayfish, and mutton cutlet...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

"One Autumn Night" a Short Tale by Maxim Gorky (Макси́м Го́рький)

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  Lev Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900   ONE AUTUMN NIGHT     Once in the autumn I happened to be in a very unpleasant...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

"Ein Besuch im Bergwerk, A Visit to a Mine" by Franz Kafka: English version. "Ein Besuch im Bergwerk, A Visit to a Mine" by Franz Kafka, translated in English, with Original Text in German

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Franz Kafka in 1906 A Visit to a Mine   Today the head engineers were down with us. There has been some order from the directo...
Friday, January 6, 2017

"Nevicata", "The Snowfall", by Giovanni Pascoli. English version with Original Text in Italian, by Giovanni Pascoli, from the collection "Myricae" (1891-1911)

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Caspar David Friedrich, “Winter Landscape with church,” 1811, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London, UK. Snowfall It snows; the...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Psychological and Historical Novel (Italian Edition, ebook) "Lunga è la Notte" (Free on Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Prime)

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"Lunga è la Notte", 2008, First Edition. Download as free ebook on Amazon Prime; Kindle Unlimited:  Borrow for free from yo...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

December, a Poem (English and Italian edition)

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Edvard Munch's "New Snow in the Avenue,"  1906, Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway. Check out the Author's Bookstore to brow...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," 1877. Full Text in English. (Russian: Сон смешного человека)

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Portrait of Dostoyevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872 THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN I I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. ...