A Pleasant Encounter? | 一次愉快的邂逅？
This excerpt from Edna O'Brien's *The Girl with Green Eyes* captures the intense, awkward, and bi...
The Grass Game | 斗草游戏
During Baoyu's birthday festivities, the maids play a grass-naming game. Xiangling's claim of a "...
The Qin Antiquarian | 秦士好古
A Qin Dynasty scholar's obsessive passion for antiques leads him to trade his entire estate—land,...
The Chu Man and the Boat | 楚人操舟
A Chu man, after learning basic boat steering in calm waters, overconfidently dismisses his teach...
The Thief and His Master | 小偷和他的师父
A father, following what he believes is divine guidance, apprentices his son to a master thief un...
The Lion, The Bear And The Fox | 狮子、熊与狐狸
A lion and a bear fight fiercely over a young goat, only to exhaust themselves and allow a sly fo...
The Little Robber-Girl | 小强盗女孩
Gerda is captured by robbers but spared by their wild daughter, who takes a liking to her. The li...
Win One for Me, Daddy | 为我赢一场，爸爸
A champion NASCAR driver recounts the emotionally challenging 1987 season: struggling with a new ...
The Sea-Hare | 海兔
A haughty princess with all-seeing vision challenges suitors to hide from her. A clever young man...
The Camel | 骆驼
A fable about how familiarity overcomes fear. When man first encountered the camel's size, he fle...
Two Children Argue About the Sun | 小儿辩日
Two children present contradictory arguments about the sun's distance at sunrise versus noon, usi...
The Eagle, the Jackdaw and the Shepherd | 鹰、寒鸦与牧羊人
A jackdaw, seeing an eagle successfully carry off a lamb, attempts to do the same but ends up tra...
Christopher Marlowe: Life and Legacy | 克里斯托弗·马洛：生平与文学遗产
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was a pioneering Elizabethan playwright whose brief but brilliant...
How the First Head Was Taken | 首级是如何被取走的
A myth explaining the origin of headhunting. The Moon goddess beheads the Sun's son for watching ...
The Mouse Father's Quest | 老鼠嫁女
A mouse father searches for the greatest being to marry his daughter to, asking the sun, cloud, w...
A Great Friendship | 伟大的友谊
This article recounts the profound 50-year friendship between American Founding Fathers Thomas Je...
Let's Speak English | 让我们说英语
Tara, an ESL student from Iraq, initially lies about her origin to avoid speaking Arabic in class...
The Three Army-Surgeons | 三个军医
Three overconfident army-surgeons boast of their surgical skills by removing their own organs, re...
Two Fathers | 我的两位父亲
A story of two sisters navigating love and loyalty between their biological father and their devo...
Echo | 回声
This is the myth of Echo, a nymph punished to only repeat the last words of others. It illustrate...
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