One Autumn Night part 7
I felt really wretched more from cold than from the words of my neighbor. I groaned softly and ground my teeth.
Almost at the same...
One Autumn Night part 6
He had a vest which cost fifteen rubles and boots with dress tops. For these reasons she had fallen in love with him, and...
One Autumn Night part 5
Our position beneath the shelter of the skiff was utterly devoid of comfort; it was narrow and damp, tiny cold drops of rain dribbled...
One Autumn Night part 4
In a monotonous tone she set about calculating our discoveries.
“A basketful of bottles thick furs a sunshade an iron pail.”
All this was uneatable. I...
One Autumn Night part 3
The girl looked at me, and the terror in her eyes gradually died out.She shook the sand from her hands, adjusted her cotton head-gear,...
One Autumn Night part 2
The evening was approaching, the rain was falling, and the wind blew violently from the north. It whistled in the empty booths and shops,...
One Autumn Night part 1
Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov, known as Gorky, which signifies “bitter,” was born at Nijni Novgorod in 1868. He was orphaned at nine, and...
A Wagner Matinee part 6
During the intermission before the second half, I questioned my aunt and found that the “Prize Song” was not new to her. Some years...
A Wagner Matinee part 5
The overture closed, my aunt released my coat sleeve, but she said nothing. She sat staring dully at the orchestra. What, I wondered, did...
A Wagner Matinee part 4
The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women. One lost the contour of faces and figures, indeed any effect of line whatever, and...
