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The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-02-12 | Author:Washington Irving

Christmas Eve Saint Fran­cis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the gob­lin, That is hight good fel­low Robin; Keep it from all evil ...
( Category: Short Stories September 16,2019 )
Struggles and Triumphs by P. T. Barnum
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-11-13 | Author:P. T. Barnum

XXXI The Art of Money Getting Back Once More to Eng­land—Tour Through Scot­land and Wales—How I Came to Lec­ture—Ad­vice of My Friends—My Lec­ture—How to Make Money and How to Keep ...
( Category: Arts & Photography September 16,2019 )
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-07-24 | Author:Arnold Bennett

XVI The Woman with the Red Hat “There is one thing, Prince, that we have just got to settle straight off,” said Theodore Rack­sole. They were all three seated—Rack­sole, his ...
( Category: Satire September 16,2019 )
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Mark Twain

( Category: United States September 16,2019 )
The Little White Bird by J. M. Barrie
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-06-01 | Author:J. M. Barrie

XVI Lockout Time It is fright­fully dif­fi­cult to know much about the fair­ies, and al­most the only thing known for cer­tain is that there are fair­ies wherever there are chil­dren. ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales September 16,2019 )
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-12 | Author:Ben Jonson

Subtle And the widow? Face No, Not that I see. Away! Exit Subtle. Enter Dap­per. O sir, you are wel­come. The Doc­tor is within a mov­ing for you; I have ...
( Category: Drama September 16,2019 )
Songs of a Sourdough by Robert W. Service
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Robert W. Service

Till I came to the marge of Lake Le­barge, and a derel­ict there lay; It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the ...
( Category: Poetry September 16,2019 )
Short Fiction by Mack Reynolds
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Mack Reynolds

* * * Johnny said in agony, “Oh, Lord. What clan were they?” Derek punched a hole in his beer can with the opener that hung from the re­frig­er­a­tor by ...
( Category: Anthologies September 16,2019 )
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-24 | Author:Okakura Kakuzō

Oth­ers, like Ko­bori-En­shiu, sought for a dif­fer­ent ef­fect. En­shiu said the idea of the garden path was to be found in the fol­low­ing verses: “A cluster of sum­mer trees, A ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea September 16,2019 )
Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-12 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch

( Category: Arts & Photography September 16,2019 )
A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-01-05 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

IV The Walls of Quebec After spend­ing the night at a farm­house in Château-Richer, about a dozen miles north­east of Que­bec, we set out on our re­turn to the city. ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 16,2019 )
South! by Ernest Shackleton
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-01-16 | Author:Ernest Shackleton

Our cove lay a little in­side the south­ern head­land of King Haakon Bay. A nar­row break in the cliffs, which were about a hun­dred feet high at this point, formed ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers September 16,2019 )
Phantastes by George MacDonald
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2018-01-07 | Author:George MacDonald

and ever he looked again, and died not, though his heart seemed ready to break with in­ten­sity of life and long­ing. And the more he did for her, the more ...
( Category: Fantasy September 16,2019 )
Flatland by Unknown
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-04 | Author:Unknown

Part II Other Worlds “O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!” XIII How I Had a Vision of Lineland It was the last day but one of ...
( Category: History September 16,2019 )
Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:E. Pauline Johnson

Point Grey “Have you ever sailed around Point Grey?” asked a young Squam­ish tillicum of mine who of­ten comes to see me, to share a cup of tea and a ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology September 16,2019 )

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