Saksagan
Silence part 3
From that day Father Ignatius ceased to speak with his daughter, but she seemed not to notice it. As before she lay in her...
Silence part 2
“And I…” The dry voice trembled, truly something had broken in it. “And I… do you think I find it easy? As if I...
Silence part 1
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919)
Born in 1871 at Orel, Andreyev struggled for many years to earn a livelihood as a lawyer. He began writing in 1900,...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 8
Bear with me, my dear Will, until I have told you I have written this letter and what it means. I have concealed one...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 7
At first I was frightened, and fought against it as against something that might grow upon me. I reproached myself for disloyalty in thought....
A Letter and a Paragraph part 6
It was so at the beginning, in the incredible happiness of the first year, and even after the boys birth. Do you know, it...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 5
Strangest of all this, that the mad agony of grief, the passion of desolation that came upon me when our long partnership was dissolved...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 4
It was a small matter, but the friendship begun in manly and helpful kindness has gone on for twenty-two years in mutual faith and...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 3
I could only silently pray that he would “give me an easy one,” and that I should not disgrace myself in the doing of...
A Letter and a Paragraph part 2
I tell you, Will, that moment was to me like one of those moments of waking that we know in childhood, when we catch...