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Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

* * * THE BOTTLE IMP. Note. - Any student of that very unliterary product, the English drama of the early part of the century, will here recognise the name ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | | Author:Ambrose Bierce

* * * THE MOCKING-BIRD The time, a pleasant Sunday afternoon in the early autumn of 1861. The place, a forest's heart in the mountain region of southwestern Virginia. Private ...
( Category: Short Stories August 7,2019 )
A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce
epub |eng | | Author:Ambrose Bierce

* * * Here ends No. Four of the Western Classics containing A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce with an introduction by ...
( Category: Education & Teaching August 7,2019 )
The Fair Haven by Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

CHAPTER VI --MORE DISINGENUOUSNESS * * * [Here, perhaps, will be the fittest place for introducing a letter to my brother from a gentleman who is well known to the ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 7,2019 )
Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

CHAPTER VIII * * * Translation of the chapter on "The Unconscious in Instinct," from Von Hartmann's "Philosophy of the Unconscious." Von Hartmann's chapter on instinct is as follows:- Instinct ...
( Category: Health, Fitness & Dieting August 7,2019 )
Howards End by E M Forster
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:E M Forster [Forster, E M]

CHAPTER XX Margaret had often wondered at the disturbance that takes place in the world’s waters, when Love, who seems so tiny a pebble, slips in. Whom does Love concern ...
( Category: Arts & Photography August 7,2019 )
The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Shikibu Murasaki
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Shikibu, Murasaki

Two monks “What could possibly prick your conscience this way? His Grace has never betrayed any such feelings. It has surprised and pained him to learn how ill you are, ...
( Category: Japanese August 7,2019 )
Domnei by James Branch Cabell
epub |eng | | Author:James Branch Cabell

* * * 18. How They Cried Quits Demetrios went into Perion's cell and filed away the chains of Perion of the Forest. Demetrios thrust the gaoler's corpse under the ...
( Category: Literary August 7,2019 )
Gallantry by James Branch Cabell
epub |eng | | Author:James Branch Cabell

* * * VIII HEART OF GOLD As Played at Paris, in the May of 1750 "Cette amoureuse ardeur qui dans les coeurs s'excite N'est point, comme l'on sçait, un ...
( Category: Suspense August 7,2019 )
Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
epub |eng | | Author:James Branch Cabell

* * * XXI Touching Repayment So Count Manuel's youth went out of him as he became more and more intimate with Misery, and an attachment sprang up between them, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 7,2019 )
Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
epub |eng | | Author:Arundhati Roy

SCANDAL IN THE PALACE This essay first appeared in Outlook magazine (India) on 26 September 2007. SCANDALS CAN be fun. Especially those that knock preachers from their pulpits and flick ...
( Category: Canadian August 7,2019 )
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

* * * Chapter XVI. Here, my friend, thou must permit me to pause. The following incidents are of a kind to which the most ardent invention has never conceived ...
( Category: Classics August 7,2019 )
Wieland; or, The Transformation by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

* * * Chapter XIII Here was wrought a surprizing change in my friend. What was it that had shaken conviction so firm? Had any thing occurred during my fit, ...
( Category: Epistolary August 7,2019 )
Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

CHAPTER XXVI. This conversation was interrupted by a messenger from my wife, who desired my return immediately. I had some hopes of meeting with Mervyn, some days having now elapsed ...
( Category: Gothic August 7,2019 )
Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

* * * Letter XXXII To Jane Talbot Baltimore, November 14. Let me overlook your last letter [Footnote A: Letter XXX.] for the present, while I mention to you a ...
( Category: Children's Books August 7,2019 )

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