Moby Dick – CHAPTER 1. Loomings. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving […]
Links to works of fiction in Project Gutenberg. There’s a separate page for short stories: https://www.languagesandliterature.com/2020/01/26/great-short-stories-links/For both these pages, I am grabbing works I might like to someday read.A few I’ve already read. Word Portraits of Famous Authors https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56166read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56166/56166-h/56166-h.htm Complete Works of Shakespeare https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/100/100-h/100-h.htm MelivilleMoby Dick https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701read online https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htmThe Confidence Man […]
I’m going to follow along with this list of the 1000 greatest short stories. (https://www.everywritersresource.com/1000-greatest-short-stories-time/)And see how many I can get from Project Gutenberg.Up to like maybe story #50.Sometimes I also just grabbed things I was interested in.Most of these I’ve never read. This is the start of a maybe-project. From “The Piazza Tales” by […]
Written by Manuela de la Peña Cuéllar (Who was this person??). Machine translation overseen and edited by AMW. UN faro es un edificio muy elevado, que generalmente tiene la forma de una torre, con un gran fanal en la parte superior. A lighthouse is a very tall building, which generally has the shape of a tower, […]
Return to Spanish Stories. Our Pure Love Offerings: Pure Love Clothing Line! Stories & Essays about the Pure Love Business! Holiday, Birthday, Etc. Cards. Copyright: There are, by my count, four categories of works here: (1) Pieces authored Bartleby Willard and/or Amble Whistletown and copyrighted by Andrew Mackenzie Watson, all rights reserved. (2) Smash-up translations […]
When studying a foreign language, I find the following exercise salutary: Find a side by side translation of a short story – in the original language and then translated into English (or whatever your native language is). Sentence by sentence, read the translation and then read the original. It is best to read each original-language […]
Pt 1 – El Beso / The Kiss Pt 2 – El Beso / The Kiss &sbsp; Pt 3 – El Beso / The Kiss Our Pure Love Offerings: Pure Love Clothing Line! Stories & Essays about the Pure Love Business! Holiday, Birthday, Etc. Cards. III The text of El beso is taken from […]
Pt 1 – El Beso / The Kiss Pt 2 – El Beso / The Kiss Pt 3 – El Beso / The Kiss Our Pure Love Offerings: Pure Love Clothing Line! Stories & Essays about the Pure Love Business! Holiday, Birthday, Etc. Cards. II The text of El beso is taken from […]
Pt 1 – El Beso / The Kiss Pt 2 – El Beso / The Kiss &sbsp; &sbsp; Pt 3 – El Beso / The Kiss Our Pure Love Offerings: Pure Love Clothing Line! Stories & Essays about the Pure Love Business! Holiday, Birthday, Etc. Cards. EL BESO The text of El beso […]
A short poem about being a brook, written by Alfred Lord Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892). See short biographical note at end of page. The Lady of Shalott. PART I. On either side the river lie Long fields of barley and of rye, That clothe the wold1 and meet the sky: And […]