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ilcollodi testo integrale brano completo citazione delle fonti commedie opere storiche opere letterarie storia di un burattino Translated by Carol Della Chiesa Centuries ago there lived -- "A king!" my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken.
Carlo Collodi - opera omnia - the adventures of pinocchio - letteratura italiana
Copyright 1998 by David Bruce Bozarth, Editor. Illustration Copyright 1998 by Lou Malcangi. Individual author contributions Copyright 1998.
Tarzan of the Apes, Summarized
Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. But it is very deep too. It goes down deeper than any anchor rope will go, and many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live. Now don't suppose that there are only bare white sands at the bottom of the sea. No indeed!
Hans Christian Andersen : The Little Mermaid :: www.andersen.sdu.dk :: The Hans Christian Andersen Center
[Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page. I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein
Megara
Megara, Hercules' First Wife Acropolis of Minyan Orchomenos from the south Photograph courtesy of the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, Saul S. Weinberg Collection After defeating the Minyans at Orchomenos, King Creon offered his eldest daughter, Megara, to Hercules as a bride in reward for his prowess in battle.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo: Preface.
A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:-- ANArKH . These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.