The Shoemaker And The Devil by Anton Chekhov
It was Christmas Eve. Marya had long been snoring on the stove; all the paraffin in the little lamp had burnt out, but Fyodor Nilov still sat at work. He would long …
Short Stories
The Shepherd’s Story of the Bond of Friendship by Hans Christian Andersen
The little dwelling in which we lived was of clay, but the door-posts were columns of fluted marble, found near the spot on which it stood. The roof sloped nearly to the …
The Sheep and the Pig by Aesop
One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured. He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment …
The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen
It is in the hot lands that the sun burns, sure enough! there the people become quite a mahogany brown, ay, and in the HOTTEST lands they are burnt to Negroes. But …
The Serpent and the Eagle by Aesop
A Serpent had succeeded in surprising an Eagle and had wrapped himself around the Eagle’s neck. The Eagle could not reach the Serpent, neither with beak nor claws. Far into the sky …
The Sea, the Fox, and the Wolf by Ramaswami Raju
A FOX that lived by the seashore once met a ‘Wolf that had never seen the Sea. The Wolf said, “What is the Sea?” “It is a great piece of water by …