Americas
mobi |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]

“My brother is a terrible man.” “Is your father like him?” She sighed. “I’m afraid so. But my mother is like me. She’s very much against the old ways. She ...
( Category: Literary October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]

By the end of 1834, the Analytical Engine was not the only thing on Ada’s mind. She had turned nineteen on December 10. Lady Byron was determined that the time ...
( Category: Scientists October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

"Get you on horseback, Dr. Melmoth, and proceed as speedily as may be down the valley to the town," said the dame, the influence of whose firmer mind was sometimes, ...
( Category: Short Stories October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-10-31 | Author:Molière [Molière]

SCENE IX.——HARPAGON, MARIANNE, FROSINE. Har. (to Marianne). Do not be offended, fair one, if I come to you with my glasses on. I know that your beauty is great enough ...
( Category: European October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:Molière [Molière]

SCENE IV.——MR. FLEURANT, ARGAN, BÉRALDE. Arg. Ah! brother, with your leave. Ber. Eh? What are you going to do? Arg. To take this little clyster; it will soon be done. ...
( Category: Playwriting October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

* * * CHAPTER XXVI. 'PROUD CAN I NEVER BE OF WHAT I HATE.' It was a Saturday afternoon, and even in that great world which has no occupation in ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-30 | Author:Molière [Molière]

SCENE IX.-SGANARELLE, VALÈRE, ERGASTE. SGAN. (Thinking himself alone). Oh, thrice and four times blessed be the law which forbids extravagance in dress! [Footnote: It is remarkable that Louis XIV., who ...
( Category: French October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

CHAPTER II. FADING. While the invalid in the pleasant lodgings overlooking Hyde Park grew day by day weaker, there was a change as marked in the bright young creature whose ...
( Category: Westerns October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-18 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

When we went back to the drawing-room after dinner, the Miss Collingwoods had a great deal to say to Milly about a grand croquet- match which was to take place ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:M. E. Braddon [Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)]

'Go and lose it in the wood, where Rosalind lost her heart-ache. Nothing like a long ramble when one is a little out of sorts. Go and get rid of ...
( Category: British & Irish October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

It may easily be conceived that Sir Roger was not a happy man. Lying there with that brandy bottle beneath his pillow, reflecting in his moments of rest that that ...
( Category: Victorian October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Shashi Tharoor

8 “Commanding Heights”: 1947–1957 One man did not join the celebrations that midnight. Mahatma Gandhi stayed in Calcutta, fasting, striving to keep the peace in a city that just a ...
( Category: India October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Twain, Mark, Griffin, Benjamin

a[It is missing—BG.] b[This entry and the two after it were written by Livy—BG.] MARK TWAIN At the Farm Summer of 1884—Jean nearly 4 yrs old. She goes out to ...
( Category: United States October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-15 | Author:Isadora Tattlin

III. 18 I am taken to meet Alfonse, aka El Ingles (the Englishman) because his father was an East Indian from Jamaica. Alfonse is a handsome negro de pelo who ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:Herbert Mitgang

Long afterward, the thievery of Sheriff Farley and the other members of the citywide tin-box brigade contributed to the creation of the 1959 Broadway musical comedy Fiorello! The brilliant lyrics ...
( Category: State & Local October 16,2014 )