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Ancient IndiaSanskrit is the classical language of the Hindus of ancient India. Practically the whole of that extraordinary literature which began with the Vedas and culminated some time before the close of the Middle...

Ovid (43 B.C.—18 A.D.?)Publius Ovidius Naso, better known to readers of English as Ovid, was born not far from Rome, and spent the latter part of his life in exile. The Metamorphoses, his most...

Heliodorus (3rd Century, A.D.)Heliodorus was one of the earliest writers of the novel, or romance. Though he lived long after the close of the Golden Age of Greek lit-erature, he is (together with Longus)...

King`s treasuryThe daughter did as her father willed, whereon the thief, who was well aware of the king`s motive, felt a desire to outdo him m craft and cunning. Accordingly he contrived the following...

Private tours Bulgaria. Bulgaria is no different from any other country in the world. It has its own history, heroes, legends. It surely had its falls and pinnacle. Bulgaria is inviting you on private...

Today’s train of tour Bulgaria is leaving the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia (private tour Sofia), to travel to the Rhodope Mountains. It stops at stations that tell legends for the mountain. These are interesting...

In two minutes` time No. 7 train was due. “Oh, Lord! Have pity on innocent souls!” In his mind Semyon saw the engine strike against the loosened rail with its left wheel, shiver, careen,...

He got two kopeks apiece for them. On the day following the visit of the commission he left his wife at home to meet the six o`clock train, and Started off to the forest...

“Head office? Ah, you are going to complain, I suppose. Give it up! Vasily Stepanych, forget it.”“No, mate, I will not forget. It is too late. See! He struck me in the face, drew...

Vasily kept silent for a while, pulling at his pipe, then added quietly: “A little more and I should have done for him.”“You are hot-tempered.”“No, I am not hot-tempered, but I tell the truth...