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The Peacock & the Crane
Aesop's Fables
A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun.
"Look," he said. "What have you...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Peacock--the-Crane-03-31
Evil Robot Monkey
By Mary Robinette Kowal
Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers. The clay matted down the hair on the back of his hands making them look almost human. He turned the potter’s wheel with his prehensile feet as he shaped the vase. Pinching the clay between his fingers he lifted ...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/Evil-Robot-Monkey-01-07
The Friday Everything Changed
By Anne Hart
Tradition. In Miss Ralston's class the boys have always carried the water bucket. Until one day, the girls decide it's time to challenge the rule. ..
The last hour of school on Friday afternoons was for Junior Red Cross. The little kids would get out their...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/The-Friday-Everything-Changed-01-06
Orientation
By Daniel Orozco
Those are the offices and these are the cubicles. That's my cubicle there, and this is your cubicle. This is your phone. Never answer your phone. Let the Voicemail System answer it. This is your Voicemail System Manual. There are no personal phone calls allowed. We do, however, allow for emergencies. If you must make an emergency phone call, ask your ...
Level:#upperintermediate
https://telegra.ph/Orientation-01-05
https://telegra.ph/The-tale-of-johnny-town-mouse-01-04
Читать полностью…The Bogey-Beast
by Flora Annie Steel (1922)
There was once a woman who was very, very cheerful, though she had little to make her so; for she was old, and poor, and lonely. She lived in a little bit of a cottage and earned a scant living by running errands for her neighbours, getting a bite here, a sup there...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Bogey-Beast-01-03
The Stag, the Sheep, & the Wolf
Aesop's Fables
One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure of wheat. The Sheep knew him for a very swift runner, who could easily take himself out of reach, were...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Stag-the-Sheep--the-Wolf-05-15
The Ass & His Driver
Aesop's Fables
An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he suddenly took it into his silly head to choose his own path. He could see his stall at the foot of the mountain, and to ....
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Ass--His-Driver-02-16
Mercury & the Woodman
Aesop's Fables
A poor Woodman was cutting down a tree near the edge of a deep pool in the forest. It was late in the day and the Woodman was tired. He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning. Thus it happened that the axe...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/Mercury--the-Woodman-04-15
The Man & the Lion
Aesop's Fables
A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in company through the forest. They soon began to quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both in strength...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Man--the-Lion-04-19
THE QUARTETTE
BY ERSKINE CHILDERS
HIS tour de force was achieved, and for the moment something like collapse set in. 'What in the world have we come here for?' he muttered; 'I feel a bit giddy.'I made him drink some whisky, which revived him; and then, speaking in whispers, we settled certain points.I alone was to land. Davies demurred to this...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/THE-QUARTETTE-07-04
The Magic Egg
Ukrainian folktale
There was once upon a time a lark who was the Tsar among the birds, and he took unto himself as his Tsaritsa a little shrew-mouse. They had a field all to themselves, which they sowed with wheat, and when the wheat grew up they divided it between them, when they found that there was one...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Magic-Egg-07-12
The Fox & the Monkey
Aesop's Fables
At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Fox--the-Monkey-05-12
The Monkey & the Camel
Aesop's Fables
At a great celebration in honor of King Lion, the Monkey was asked to dance for the company. His dancing was very clever indeed, and the animals were all highly pleased with his......
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Monkey--the-Camel-03-05
The Wolf, the Kid, & the Goat
Aesop's Fables
Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself.
"Take good care of the house, my son," she said to the Kid,...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Wolf-the-Kid--the-Goat-05-23
The Voices at the Window
Ukrainian folktales
A nobleman went hunting one autumn, and with him went a goodly train of huntsmen. All day long they hunted and hunted, and at the end of the day they had caught nothing. At last dark night overtook them. It had now grown bitterly cold, and the rain began ...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Voices-at-the-Window-06-24
The Wolf & the Shepherd
Aesop's Fables
A Wolf had been prowling around a flock of Sheep for a long time, and the Shepherd watched very anxiously to prevent him from carrying off a Lamb. But the Wolf did not try to do any harm. Instead he seemed...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Wolf--the-Shepherd-03-30
The Fox & the Monkey
Aesop's Fables
At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. This he did so well, with a thousand funny capers and grimaces, that the Animals were carried entirely...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Fox--the-Monkey-05-12
Doctor Goldsmith
By James Baldwin
There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Goldsmith. He wrote many delightful books, some of which you will read when you are older.He had a gentle heart. He was always ready to help others and to share with them anything that he had. He gave away...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/Doctor-Goldsmith-05-12
Two Travelers & a Bear
Aesop's Fables
Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the brush near them.
One of the Men, thinking of his own safety, climbed a...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/Two-Travelers--a-Bear-05-10
À LA CARTE
by jeffrey archer
Arthur Hapgood was demobilized on November 3, 1946. Within a month he was back at his old workplace on the shop floor of the Triumph factory on the outskirts of Coventry.
The five years spent in the Sherwood Foresters, four of them as a quartermaster seconded...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/%C3%80-LA-CARTE-04-20
A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
by jeffrey archer
Sir Hamish Graham had many of the qualities and most of the failings that result from being born to a middle-class Scottish family. He was well educated, hardworking, and honest, while at the same time being narrow-minded,...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/A-MATTER-OF-PRINCIPLE-04-15
The Wolf & the House Dog
Aesop's Fables
There was once a Wolf who got very little to eat because the Dogs of the village were so wide awake and watchful. He was really nothing but skin and bones, and it made him very downhearted to think of it.
One night this Wolf...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Wolf--the-House-Dog-04-25
The Fox Without a Tail
Aesop's Fables
A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away. But he had to leave his beautiful bushy...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Fox-Without-a-Tail-04-29
The Sick Stag
Aesop's Fables
A Stag had fallen sick. He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Sick-Stag-04-08
The Dog & the Oyster
Aesop's Fables
There was once a Dog who was very fond of eggs. He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Dog--the-Oyster-04-12
The Cat & the Fox
Aesop's Fables
Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together. As they went along, picking up provisions on the way—a stray mouse here, a fat chicken there—they began an argument to...
Level:#intermediate
https://telegra.ph/The-Cat--the-Fox-05-06
Antonio Canova
James Baldwin
A good many years ago there lived in Italy a little boy whose name was Antonio Canova. He lived with his grandfather, ...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/Antonio-Canova-05-10
An Actor’s End
by Anton Chekhov
SHTCHIPTSOV, the "heavy father" and "good-hearted simpleton," a tall and thick-set old man, not so much distinguished by his talents as an actor as by his exceptional physical strength, had a desperate quarrel with the manager during the performance, and just...
Level:#advanced
https://telegra.ph/An-Actors-End-05-20