Classics Retold

One hundred and seventh night. Shahrazad was present along with her sister Dinarzad and the king Shahriar  Hunchback was choked to death while on a feast, and carouse with the tailor and his wife. The couple put the body on the staircase of a Jewish physician. The physician and his wife put the dead man by the windshaft in the compound of a kitchen steward. He in turn, propped up the hunchback in the corner of an alley at entrance of the market. A Christian trader in his intoxication squatted by the side of hunchback to piss. Thinking that the hunchback was trying to snatch his turban, the trader fell upon him. The guard on watch who witnessed the attack and pummelling by the Christian on a Muslim, caught the offender and took him to the police and, the police in turn took him to the King. The king ordered him to hang. Attracted by the crowd at the gallow the steward came to the scene. He saw that the Christian stand under the gallow with rope around his neck and the hangman ready ...

Mrs Bennet was a changed person after the marriage of her elder daughters. She visited Mrs Bingley with delighted pride and talked of Mrs Darcy in generous terms. The accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her sensible and amiable and well informed woman for the rest of her life. Mr Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly. His affection for her drew him often to Pemberly. Mr Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only for twelve months. So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to his  easy temper or her affectionate heart. The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring country to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, to their additional happiness, was within thirty miles of each other. Kitty to her advantage spent most of her time with her two elder sisters. In a society more superior to her own, her improvement w...

One hundred and sixth night. The hunchback tambourine player and singer was choked to death when the tailor pushed a piece of fish to the former's mouth and shut it with his hands. Tailor's wife worked up to cover up the crime, and brought the dead body to a Jewish physician's house; where she asked the physician's maid to attend a sick boy and gave her a quarter dinar. When the physician's maid went to call the physician, the tailor propped up the dead body on the staircase. The physician was pleased with the quarter dinar handed over by the maid to him went downstairs to see the patient, and stumbled upon the propped up body, and it rolled down. Thinking that the sick boy was dead because of his stumbling on him the physician took him upstairs. His wife advised him to throw it to the compound of bachelor steward. The physician and his wife propped up the dead body at the foot of the wind shaft of the steward's compound. When the steward saw a man reclining on ...

Elizabeth was in high spirits, and she asked Darcy playfully, "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place? "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." "My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners - my behaviour to you  was at least always boardering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did." "You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always talking, and looking, and thinking of your approbation alone. I roused and interested you, because...

One hundred and fifth night. Shahriar the king of India Indochina, the queen, and her sister were present. The queen Shahrazad had been telling the stories at the request of her sister Dinarzad, and the king had been getting involved in following the story. The tailor and his wife found a jolly  hunchback with his tambourine. They invited him to their house for merry making and entertainment. While carousing and feasting the hunchack was choked and dead. The tailor and his wife propped up the dead man on the staircase of a Jewish physician. While coming downstairs the physician stumbled upon the dead hunchback propped up on the staircase, and it rolled down. The physician thought that he had stumbled on a sick man, who fell down and dead. He carried the body upstairs. Continue to read: The physician's wife said to him, "Why do you sit still? Rise at once and let us carry the body to the roof and throw it into the house of our neighbour, the Muslim bachelor." The Jew's...

"Dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?" asked Jane as soon as she entered the room. As they sat down to the table, others repeated it. She had only to reply that they had wandered about. She coloured as she spoke, but nobody noticed it. The evening passed quietly, without anything to mark. The acknowledged lovers talked and laughed, the  unacknowledged lovers were silent. Darcy was not in a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarassment, there were other evils before. She anticipated what would be felt in the family when her situation became known; she was aware that no one liked but Jane; and even feared that with the others it was dislike which not all his fortune and consequence might do away. At night she opened her heart to Jane. Though suspicion was very far from Miss Bennet's general habits, she was absolutely incredu...

One hundred and fourth night of story telling. Shahrazad, the queen of India Indochina, a vast geographical region, where king Shahriar ruled over an empire that stretched from India to Persia and beyond and including parts of Indochina. These places do not have any relation to Modern day places carrying the same name. Queen Shahrazad leave stories incomplete retaining its suspense to crack the brain of the king and thus divert his attention. The tailor carried the hunchback in his arms, covered with a silk shawl, and followed his wife, who led the way, wailing and saying, "O my boy, may you recover from your illness. Where has this smallpox been lying in wait for us?" so that whoever saw them said, "These two have a child stricken with the small pox," until someone directed them to the house of a Jewish physician. When the wife knocked at the door, a maid came down, and when she opened the door, she saw a man carrying a sick child. The wife handed her quarter dinar...