https://ttsreader.com/stories/Recent content in Stories Library 📚 onHugo -- gohugo.ioMon, 24 Jul 2023 08:49:55 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/moby-dick/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/moby-dick/CHAPTER 1. Loomings. Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.https://ttsreader.com/stories/oppenheimer/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/oppenheimer/A short essay giving you some less-known insights into the life of this American legend. As a tribute to the new Oppenheimer movie. Intro Julius Robert Oppenheimer lived not a long life, but a very exciting one - good and bad - having to deal with tremendous responsibilities and moral issues. He headed the United States’ nuclear development program - under the Manhattan Project - racing Hitler’s Nazi Germany to the bomb.https://ttsreader.com/stories/how-much-land/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/how-much-land/Chapter 1. An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters sat over their tea talking, the elder began to boast of the advantages of town life: saying how comfortably they lived there, how well they dressed, what fine clothes her children wore, what good things they ate and drank, and how she went to the theatre, promenades, and entertainments.https://ttsreader.com/stories/three-questions/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/three-questions/It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake. And this thought having occurred to him, he had it proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to any one who would teach him what was the right time for every action, and who were the most necessary people, and how he might know what was the most important thing to do.https://ttsreader.com/stories/esarhaddon/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://ttsreader.com/stories/esarhaddon/Background to the story: this short story was written by Leo Tolstoy in 1903 to aid by raising money to the persecuted jews following the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The Assyrian King, Esarhaddon, had conquered the kingdom of King Lailie, had destroyed and burnt the towns, taken all the inhabitants captive to his own country, slaughtered the warriors, beheaded some chieftains and impaled or flayed others, and had confined King Lailie himself in a cage.