Lazarus
Leonid Andreyev
When Lazarus left the grave, where, for three days and three nights he had been under the enigmatical sway of death, and returned alive to his dwelling, for a long time no one noticed in him those sinister oddities, which, as time went on, made his very name a terror.
(more…)On The Day Of The Crucifixion
Leonid Andreyev
On that terrible day, when the universal injustice was committed and Jesus Christ was crucified in Golgotha among robbers – on that day, from early morning, Ben-Tovit, a tradesman of Jerusalem, suffered from an unendurable toothache.
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