item: #1 of 6 id: 20552 author: None title: Roumanian Fairy Tales date: None words: 63961 flesch: 88 summary: The walls were covered with all sorts of silk and beautiful things, and on the floor, where one sets one's foot, was something, I don't know exactly what, but something as glittering as a mirror and as soft as cushions, besides many other beautiful things, such as a Fairy Aurora must have. I don't know why young Petru devoured her so with his eyes, that he might have given her the Evil eye. keywords: boy; day; dragon; emperor; eyes; fairy; father; girl; good; holy; home; horse; ileane; jack; left; man; mother; palace; petru; prince; set; son; stan; thing; time; water; way; woman; world cache: 20552.txt plain text: 20552.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 32700 author: Giloane, William title: Area Handbook for Romania date: None words: 120321 flesch: 50 summary: A wide range of official noncommercial or tourist exchange rates is in effect for residents of other communist countries. In common with the folk art of other countries of Eastern Europe, Romanian folk art uses mostly abstract and geometric designs. keywords: activities; addition; affairs; agriculture; areas; assembly; bank; bucharest; ceausescu; central; century; church; collective; committee; communist; communist party; constitution; control; council; countries; country; development; eastern; economic; economy; education; enterprises; europe; farms; forces; foreign; general; german; government; groups; hungarian; individual; industrial; industry; information; investment; jprs; labor; land; law; leaders; level; life; members; military; ministry; national; new; number; official; organization; output; pact; party; pcr; people; percent; period; policy; political; population; power; production; programs; regime; relations; republic; romania; romanians; schools; series; socialist; society; soviet; soviet union; state; system; time; total; trade; training; transylvania; union; war; warsaw; western; work; workers; world; years; youth cache: 32700.txt plain text: 32700.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 38991 author: None title: Roumanian Stories, Translated from the Original Roumanian date: None words: 66537 flesch: 90 summary: Has it not been known for old men to lose their heads and marry girls of eighteen? OLD NICHIFOR, THE IMPOSTOR By I. CREANGA Old Nichifor is not a character out of a story-book but a real man like other men; he was once, when he was alive, an inhabitant of the Tzutzuen quarter of the town of Neamtzu, towards the village of Neamtzu Vinatori. keywords: ana; boyars; day; door; eyes; father; god; good; hand; head; heart; house; irinel; lady; left; leiba; life; look; man; master; men; mistress; mother; nichifor; night; people; place; priest; road; round; sandu; saw; thought; time; village; water; way; wife; woman; words; work; years cache: 38991.txt plain text: 38991.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 43059 author: None title: Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories Rendered into English date: None words: 110012 flesch: 83 summary: If tales and apologues are borrowed, then those nearest the centre will preserve the original form less changed; and the further a tale travels--always by word of mouth--the more it will lose of its original character and the more it will become mixed up and contaminated with other tales which have undergone a similar emaciating and attenuating process. This watering down may have taken place also in other tales which appear to us without any sense. keywords: animal; away; bee; bird; cat; church; cuckoo; day; devil; dog; earth; fairy; folk; food; form; fox; girl; god; good; head; home; house; human; king; left; legend; life; like; lion; lord; lore; man; men; mother; nations; origin; people; peter; place; rumanian; saw; sea; story; sun; tales; thee; thou; thy; time; tree; water; wolf; woman; world; young cache: 43059.txt plain text: 43059.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 43637 author: Winlow, Clara Vostrovsky title: Our Little Roumanian Cousin date: None words: 20951 flesch: 82 summary: Once upon a time there was a man who knew little children and the kind of stories they liked, so he wrote four books of Sandman's stories, all about the farm or the sea, and the brig _ Herald._ =TEDDY AND CARROTS=; OR, TWO MERCHANTS OF NEWSPAPER ROW. keywords: 12mo; air; big; book; boys; chapter; cloth; country; day; good; home; jonitza; life; man; maritza; mother; mrs; new; nicolaia; popescu; roumania; series; stories; story; time; volume; way cache: 43637.txt plain text: 43637.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 45976 author: Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania title: My Country date: None words: 16157 flesch: 76 summary: [Illustration: STRANGE OLD CROSSES THAT ON ALL ROADS I HAVE COME UPON (p. 33).] Taking me by the arm, the Father Superior would solemnly lead me towards the gaily decorated church, whilst many little children would throw flowers before me as I passed. keywords: away; church; country; crosses; earth; eyes; half; heads; illustration; look; mountain; place; rest; road; round; sun; time; white cache: 45976.txt plain text: 45976.txt