LITERATURE

IF by RUDYARD KIPLING

Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936) Rudyard [ˈrʌdjərd] Kipling [ˈkɪplɪŋ] Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Редьярд Киплинг – английский журналист, писатель, поэт и новеллист.     IF If you can keep […]

HISTORY MYSTERIES

SAMUEL PEPYS AND HIS DIARY

Samuel Pepys (1633 – 1703) “Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain…” Source of the extract from the diary […]

LITERATURE

REREADING THE DECAMERON

The Decameron [dɪˈkæmərən] is a collection of short stories by a XIV century author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book tells us about a group of young men and women who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence to […]