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- Nov 23
- 15 min
The Suit
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Can Themba FIVE-THIRTY in the morning, and the candlewick bedspread frowned as the man under it stirred. He did not like to...
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- Nov 22
- 9 min
2BR02B
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Kurt Vonnegut Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no...
81
- Nov 14
- 45 min
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Written by Washington Irving (Found Among the Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker.) A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of...
220
- Nov 14
- 27 min
Rip Van Winkle
Written by Washington Irving By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is Wodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will...
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- Nov 13
- 19 min
The Shot
Rated 4 out of 5 stars.
(1)By Alexander Pushkin CHAPTER I WE were stationed in the little town of N——. The life of an officer in the army is well known. In the...
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- Oct 11
- 23 min
The Rooinek
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Herman Charles Bosman Rooineks, said Oom Schalk Lourens, are queer. For instance, there was that day when my nephew Hannes and...
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- Aug 14
- 17 min
The Turban
Written by A. C. Jordan It came about, according to some tale, that there was a man named Nyengebule. This man had two wives, and of...
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- Aug 14
- 7 min
The Sisters
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Pauline Smith MARTA was the eldest of my father's children, and she was sixteen years old when our mother died and our father...
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- Aug 2
- 7 min
Henry Nxumalo
Rated 4 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Can Themba One Saturday afternoon Henry Nxumalo, the news editor of The Golden City Post, set out to Sophiatown to look for...
161
- Aug 2
- 7 min
Passionate Stranger
Rated 3 out of 5 stars.
(1)Written by Can Themba Osbourne Ledwaba was bitter against his father for the way the old man had treated his friend, Reginald Tshayi,...
232
- Jul 27
- 9 min
In the Withaak’s Shade
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)Herman Charles Bosman LEOPARDS? – Oom Schalk Lourens said – Oh, yes, there are two varieties on this side of the Limpopo. The chief...
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