Chapter 5: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia Frenz
Julia meets all kinds of people on the shores of the Black Sea to practice speaking Russian with.
21 Feb 202524min
The Red Crown by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1891 and died inMoscow, Russia in 1940. He died from a kidney disease inherited from his father. He was only 48 years old. He was a physician but decided ...
14 Feb 202517min
Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri and died in Connecticut in 1910. In 1909 Mark Twain made this comment “I came in with Halley's Comet, It is coming ...
7 Feb 20256min
Change by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser was an American writer born in Indiana in 1871 and died in Hollywood, California in 1945. He was best known for his novels “An American Tragedy” based on the murder of Grace Brown in ...
31 Jan 202510min
Letter by Union Officer Sullivan Ballou
In 1861, a Union officer named Sullivan Ballou, assigned to the Grand Army of The Potomac, wrote home to his wife in Smithfield, Rhode Island. He has a wife and two sons waiting for him at home. In th...
24 Jan 20255min
Squeaker's Mate by Barbara Baynton
Squeaker’s Mate is about Squeaker, a lazy, conniving, good for nothing husband, and his mate, a strong woman who is capable, conscientious and does all the work whenever they go out on a job. She suff...
17 Jan 202540min
Chapter 4: In the Wrinkle of the Old Cliff by Julia Frenz
The Soviet Union ceased to exist on New Year’s Eve, 1991. The new country, called the Russian Federation, was set to embrace democracy and a market economy. The problem was that no one had any idea ho...
10 Jan 202532min
The Skylight Room by O. Henry
O. Henry was born William Sydney Porter in North Carolina in 1862 and died in New York City in 1910 at the age of 47. In 1895, he was charged with embezzlement and fled to the Honduras where he starte...
3 Jan 202517min
