Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. Some say a career of crime had left him...

The Faith is Europe. And Europe is the Faith. As a young man, Belloc lost his faith. Then came a spiritual event which he never discussed publicly, and which returned him to and...

Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate worth more than one million pounds, on condition that he live for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains on...

Emelian was a labourer and worked for a master. He was walking through a field one day on his way to work, when a frog hopped in front of him and he just missed crushing it by...

Our pet-loving narrator injures his black cat under heavy influence of alcohol. From that moment onward, the cat flees in terror at his master's approach but this does not...

Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles...

Conservato in tre redazioni, tutte di mano del Boccaccio, il Trattatello in laude di Dante è stato composto fra il 1357 e il 1361. Com’è noto e dichiarato sin...

Angelina Jolie hat am 19. September die Scheidung von Brad Pitt eingereicht. Der offizielle Grund lautet: Unüberbrückbare Differenzen.Sie war mit den Erziehungsmethoden...

Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his...

Subtle humour is one of the key elements in Chekhov's imaginative stories. But as an artist, Chekhov is more complicated. He paints life with all its nuances and shades of grey....