Category: Collected Literatures
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Vanka
By Anton Checkov NINE-YEAR-OLD Vanka Zhukov, who had been apprenticed three months ago to Alyakhin the shoemaker, did not go to bed on Christmas eve. He waited till his master and mistress and the senior apprentices had gone to church, and then took from the cupboard a bottle of ink and a pen with a…
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Misery
AUTHOR: Anton Checkov Translated by: Constance Garnett “To whom shall I tell my grief?” The twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin soft layer on roofs, horses’ backs, shoulders, caps. Iona Potapov, the sledge-driver, is all white…
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What’s in a name huh?
Author: Unknown. Paraphrased from a story I read a long time ago The young boy was very happy today. He woke up earlier than usual and proceeded to quickly finish his chores. He could not afford to be late. He brushed his teeth and washed his hair with the water left over in the earthen…
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The Prince and The Witch
Author: Adapted from the movie “A Monster Calls” “Let me tell you a story, of an end of a wicked queen and how I made sure she was never seen again” “Long ago, before there was a town with roads and trains and cars, there was a prosperous kingdom. The wise king of the kingdom…