Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 2004-10-01 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

C. E. STOWE. After her husband's departure for the United States, Mrs. Stowe, with her son Henry, her two eldest daughters, and her sister Mary (Mrs. Perkins), accepted the Duke ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

Chapter XII. As soon as the Trio was off, I got well. Little did I then think of the great risk I ran in going ashore; for it was almost ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * CHAPTER V. THE THREE AMERICAN NOVELS. The prospect of official station and emolument which Hawthorne mentions in one of those paragraphs from his Journals which I have ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-26 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

* * * Just as the q-b was working up to the rage I had at last calmed down from, appeared the shawl-swathed girl announcing "Pronto!" "Pronto! Pronto!" said everybody. ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-03 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

* * * Chapter X. CICERO'S DEATH. b.c. 43, ætat. 64. What other letters from Cicero we possess were written almost exclusively with the view of keeping the army together, ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

"Alas!" she added, when she had repeated with a smile these lines of an old ballad, "violence has already robbed me of the ordinary decorations of my rank; and the ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-20 | Author:Wilkie Collins [Collins, Wilkie]

* * * While we were sitting in the counting-house, we had some talk with our good-humoured and intelligent guide, on the subject of miners and mining at Botallack. Some ...
( Category: Europe December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-07-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

345.jpg (145K) My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. I painted the ball of the client's thumb, took a print of it on ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

Miss Thackeray, who was of the party, delighted Browning beyond measure by calling the sleepy old fishing district "White Cotton Night-Cap Country." It was exactly the kind of elfish phrase ...
( Category: British & Irish December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-01 | Author:Robert Lynd [Lynd, Robert]

Je ne veux seulement que notre chambrière Vienne faire mon lit, ton compagnon ni toi; Je veux trois jours entiers demeurer à recoi, Pour folâtrer après une semaine entière. Mais, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER VIII The exposure of the plot was most prejudicial to the prosperity of the Ursuline community: spurious possession, far from bringing to their convent an increase of subscriptions and ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER IX Everything from without was favouring Alexander's encroaching policy, when he was compelled to turn his eyes from France towards the centre of Italy: in Florence dwelt a man, ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas père [Dumas père, Alexandre]

( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-28 | Author:Alexandre Dumas père [Dumas père, Alexandre]

( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER XI The mode of torture employed at Loudun was a variety of the boot, and one of the most painful of all. Each of the victim's legs below the ...
( Category: True Crime December 17,2017 )