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The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
epub |eng | | Author:Honore de Balzac

“The prophecy is interrupted by a chorus of victorious Arabs (twelve-eight time, allegretto). Trumpets and brasses accompany the various tribes which now enter. A general festivity in which all the ...
( Category: Surrealism August 7,2019 )
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes I and II) by Songling Pu
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Songling Pu [Pu, Songling]

LXIX. THE PRINCESS OF THE TUNG-T‘ING LAKE. Ch‘ên Pi-chiao was a Pekingese; and being a poor man he attached himself as secretary to the suite of a high military official ...
( Category: Ghosts August 7,2019 )
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Ann Radcliffe

CHAPTER VII LOUISA, Baroness Malcolm, was the descendant of an ancient and honourable house in Switzerland. Her father, the Marquis de St. Claire, inherited all those brave qualities, and that ...
( Category: Occult August 7,2019 )
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
epub |eng | | Author:Ann Radcliffe

Chapter 18 And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then, When your eyes roll so. Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip? Some bloody passion shakes your ...
( Category: Occult August 7,2019 )
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
epub |eng | | Author:Clara Reeve

"Very well," said Sir Philip; "I am ready to hear you; but first, go and get some refreshment after your journey, and then come to me again. John Wyatt will ...
( Category: Gothic August 7,2019 )
The Antiquary by Walter Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * VOLUME TWO. * * * CONTENTS * * * CHAPTER FIRST. * * * CHAPTER SECOND. * * * CHAPTER THIRD. * * * CHAPTER FOURTH. * ...
( Category: Gothic August 7,2019 )
The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

CHAPTER IX. So spak the knicht; the geaunt sed, Lend forth with the, the sely maid, And mak me quile of the and sche; For glaunsing ee, or brow so ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2019 )
The Betrothed by Walter Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. Ring out the merry bell, the bride approaches, The blush upon her cheek has shamed the morning, For that is dawning palely. Grant, good ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2019 )
The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * CHAPTER XX Credit me, friend, it hath been ever thus, Since the ark rested on Mount Ararat. False man hath sworn, and woman hath believed-- Repented and ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs August 7,2019 )
Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott
epub | | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * CHAPTER II . Oh, I'm come to the Low Country, Och, och, ohonochie, Without a penny in my pouch To buy a meal for me. I was ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 7,2019 )
The Fair Maid of Perth by Walter Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

* * * CHAPTER XVIII . A purple land, where law secures not life. BYRON. The morning of Ash Wednesday arose pale and bleak, as usual at this season in ...
( Category: Historical August 7,2019 )
Gene Wolfe by Peace
epub, mobi | | 2010-05-02 | Author:Peace [Peace]

“Let me see if I can remember what you told us you ordered,” Stewart Blaine said. “Pancakes and ham, wasn’t it?” Eleanor Bold added, “And a glass of milk.” My ...
( Category: Fantasy August 7,2019 )
The People of the Mist by Haggard H. Rider
mobi |eng | | Author:Haggard, H. Rider [Haggard, H. Rider]

CHAPTER XXIII HOW JUANNA CONQUERED NAM Still the silence endured, and still the moonlight grew, creeping lower and lower till it shone upon the face of the seething waters, and, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 7,2019 )
The Romance of the Forest by Radcliffe Ann
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Radcliffe, Ann [Radcliffe, Ann]

CHAPTER 13 "Nor sea, nor shade, nor shield, nor rock, nor cave, Nor silent desarts, nor the sullen grave, Where flame-ey'd Fury means to frown Ñ can save." The surgeon ...
( Category: Occult August 7,2019 )
Firefight (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson
mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Brandon Sanderson

28 PROF held my gaze, making me sweat. Sparks, that man could be intense. He wanted to pretend that his was a quiet, careful group—and in truth, it mostly was. ...
( Category: Teen & Young Adult August 7,2019 )

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