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Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub |eng | 1999-10-01 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The French were afraid that, unless their colonies should be better defended than heretofore, another war might deprive them of the whole. Almost as soon as peace was declared, therefore, ...
( Category: World March 3,2018 )
The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
epub |eng | 2006-02-26 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

CHAPTER XXXIX THE WORLD'S CATHEDRAL Still gliding onward, Hilda now looked up into the dome, where the sunshine came through the western windows, and threw across long shafts of light. ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 3,2018 )
Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton
epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"Whoever made it, who is wiser, and we hope better than we, made it under strange limitations, and with painful conditions of pleasure. "In the first and darkest of its ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 3,2018 )
In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | 1996-03-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

CHAPTER V—A PAUMOTUAN FUNERAL No, I had no guess of these men’s terrors. Yet I had received ere that a hint, if I had understood; and the occasion was a ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 3,2018 )
High on the Hog by Jessica B. Harris
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Jessica B. Harris

( Category: Americas March 3,2018 )
Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-07-01 | Author:graf Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo, graf]

Chapter 17 Unconsciously going over in his memory the conversations that had taken place during and after dinner, Alexey Alexandrovitch returned to his solitary room. Darya Alexandrovna’s words about forgiveness ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 3,2018 )
The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas
epub |eng | 2004-12-01 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

CHAPTER XXIX. THE GENEVA DILIGENCE About the hour when Roland was entering Nantes, a diligence, heavily loaded, stopped at the inn of the Croix-d'Or, in the middle of the main ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 3,2018 )
The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe
epub |eng | 2010-01-23 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I would not treat the very Subject it self with any Indecency, nor do I think my Opinion of that Hell, which I say consists in the Absence of him, ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 3,2018 )
The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

CHAPTER 23. THE CLEARING OF THE SOUTH-EAST. Lord Roberts never showed his self-command and fixed purpose more clearly than during his six weeks' halt at Bloemfontein. De Wet, the most ...
( Category: Europe March 3,2018 )
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | 2005-12-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Chapter XXII. Of the News from Havant Having given my orders that Covenant should be saddled and bridled by daybreak, I had gone to my room and was preparing for ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 3,2018 )
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | 1995-07-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

JOHN HUXFORD'S HIATUS. Strange it is and wonderful to mark how upon this planet of ours the smallest and most insignificant of events set a train of consequences in motion ...
( Category: History March 3,2018 )
The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2001-08-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

Take the standard "Album" for instance—that unfortunate collection of deformed Zuleikas and Medoras (from the "Byron Beauties"), the Flowers, Gems, Souvenirs, Caskets of Loveliness, Beauty, as they way be called; ...
( Category: Arts & Photography March 3,2018 )
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2001-09-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF MR. DEUCEACE'S HISTORY. LIMBO. My tail is droring rabidly to a close; my suvvice with Mr. Deuceace didn't continyou very long after the last chapter, ...
( Category: Biographies & Memoirs March 3,2018 )
The Maid of Sker by R. D. Blackmore
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

* * * CHAPTER XXXVIII. A FINE OLD GENTLEMAN. When I came to look round upon this state of things, and consider it, I made up my mind to tempt ...
( Category: Children's Books March 3,2018 )
Alice Lorraine A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. Blackmore
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

“Captain Chapman!” cried the Rector, with something which in any other place would have been profane; “why, what in the world could he want here? He never came to hear ...
( Category: History March 3,2018 )

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