The Torture of Hope part 1
Villiers de L`isle Adam (1838-1889)
Count Villiers de l`Isle Adam, bom in Brittany in 1838, led a strange life. “Born without average will-power,” says Huneker,...
Michael IV part 13
24. What had taken place was, in reality, the beginning of mighty disasters in the future, and what was, to all appearances, the foundation...
Sidonius tells the story of a brave Roman war
The landscape was not without alarms and overreactions, betraying the tension in the air. In a poem of praise for the emperor Majorian, whose...
Michael IV part 14
26. Let me now give some account of this man.**50 His family, on his father’s side, was altogether insignificant and completely obscure. His father...
Most likely of Scirian ancestry
The pattern Odoacer represents will be familiar by now. He is marked as a barbarian even though his success was entirely Roman. His father,...
The Torture of Hope part 3
Suddenly the sound of a sandaled foot approaching reached his ears. He trembled violently, fear stifled him, his sight grew dim. Well, it was...
History of Bulgaria part 14
Until the adoption of Islam and the implementation of the Arab alphabet in Volga Bulgaria, the people used the runic script. The existence of...
The Torture of Hope part 4
Forward! He must hasten toward that goal which he fancied (ab¬surdly, no doubt) to be deliverance, toward the darkness from which he was now...
History of Bulgaria part 15
An intensive process of borrowing from other languages into the common Bulgarian`s vocabulary is observed during the Ottoman rule. Some of the borrowings are...
History of Bulgaria part 16
On a mission to explain the principles of the Muslim religion and jurisprudence to the new Bulgarian Muslims on the Volga. Here are some...
