Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
© Alan Fleming, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Railways not only brought fresh, healthy food to the urban poor, they improved the conditions of working animals.
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© Stanley Howe, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
A team of amateurs gave Europe’s finest a drubbing.
© GalliasM, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.
A monk of the Egyptian desert helped a desperate mother, and was richly rewarded.
© J147, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Her enemies made Jane stronger, but her lover struck a blow from which she might never recover.
© Sylvia Duckworth, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.
Macbeth becomes wound in spells, and finds that one murder leads to another.
© Andrey Mironov, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.
Why did a kindly old priest refuse to show his respects to St Nektarios?