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Sketches by Boz
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER V --HORATIO SPARKINS * * * 'Indeed, my love, he paid Teresa very great attention on the last assembly night,' said Mrs. Malderton, addressing her spouse, who, after the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * CHAPTER XIV --WHEN SHALL THESE THREE MEET AGAIN? * * * Christmas Eve in Cloisterham. A few strange faces in the streets; a few other faces, half ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * PART III. - ROMANCE. FROM THE PEN OF LIEUT.-COL. ROBIN REDFORTH (Aged nine.) * * * THE subject of our present narrative would appear to have devoted ...
( Category: Victorian March 25,2014 )
Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * THE DETECTIVE POLICE * * * WE are not by any means devout believers in the old Bow Street Police. To say the truth, we think there ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER IV * * * When Mr. Goodchild had looked out of the Lancaster Inn window for two hours on end, with great perseverance, he begun to entertain a misgiving ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 25,2014 )
The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1902-01-01 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

Hitherto for all these miles the Aar had been my companion, and the road, though rising always, had risen evenly and not steeply. Now the Aar was left behind in ...
( Category: Europe March 25,2014 )
The Old Road by Hilaire Belloc
epub, mobi |eng | 1904-12-15 | Author:Hilaire Belloc [Belloc, Hilaire]

After the Old Road enters Albury Park there is a doubtful section of about a mile and a half. The 25-inch Ordnance for Surrey (revised eight years ago) carries the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 25,2014 )
Trinity (Ned.) by Uris Leon
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Uris, Leon [Uris, Leon]

Lord Roger kwam precies om negen uur op het hoofdkantoor van Foyle Ondernemingen. Het herenhuis in Abercorn Road stond op enige honderden meters afstand van de fabriek en was door ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honour and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Harrington Joel F
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Harrington, Joel F. [Harrington, Joel F.]

A dastardly ambush of an innocent traveller by two robbers. Note the glee of the perpetrators and the fear of the victim (1543). As in broadsheet accounts of crime, Frantz’s ...
( Category: Germany March 25,2014 )
The British Execution: 1500–1964 (Shire Library) by Banks Stephen
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Banks, Stephen [Banks, Stephen]

Two offenders pilloried at Charing Cross in 1809. A large crowd has gathered to enjoy the spectacle. (Aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson and A. C. Pugin for Ackermann’s Microcosm of London, ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
Tyburn: London's Fatal Tree by Brooke Alan & Brandon David
epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Brooke, Alan & Brandon, David [Brooke, Alan]

NINE Newgate to Tyburn in the Eighteenth Century The three miles from Newgate to Tyburn was the last journey on earth for the condemned felons. Although most are unlikely to ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
Cat Among the Pigeons by Christie Agatha
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-23 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Agatha, Christie,]

Cat Among the Pigeons II Jennifer walked away from the tennis courts rather moodily, swishing her racquet. The amount of double faults she had served this morning depressed her. Not, ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Through the Magic Door by Arthur Conan Doyle
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * VIII. We have left our eighteenth-century novelists--Fielding, Richardson, and Smollett--safely behind us, with all their solidity and their audacity, their sincerity, and their coarseness of fibre. They ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Alan Hollinghurst [Hollinghurst, Alan]

He closed the door, locked the door, and reached out for Wani, who patted him and kissed him on the nose as he turned away. "Where's the stuff?" said Wani. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
mobi, epub | | 1998-12-17 | Author:Frank McCourt

The bed has cool white sheets. The nurses have clean white uniforms and the nun, Sister Rita, is all in white. Dr. Humphrey and Dr. Campbell have white coats and ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )

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