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Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER vii. A CALM. Cecilia took leave over night of the family, as she would not stay their rising in the morning: Mr Monckton, though certain not to sleep when ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER vi. A MYSTERY. For two days, in consequence of violent colds caught during the storm, Lady Honoria Pemberton and Cecilia were confined to their rooms. Cecilia, glad by solitude ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Fanny Burney [Burney, Fanny]

CHAPTER viii A TETE A TETE. The two following days had neither event nor disturbance, except some little vexation occasioned by the behaviour of Sir Robert Floyer, who still appeared ...
( Category: British & Irish March 26,2014 )
Donna Tartt by The Secret History
epub |rus | | Author:The Secret History [History, The Secret]

In a certain way, though, I know how my colleague feels. Not that everything 'went black,' nothing of the sort; only that the event itself is cloudy because of some ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 26,2014 )
Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-17 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

BOOK THE THIRD THE GREAT DAYS OF TONO-BUNGAY CHAPTER THE FIRST THE HARDINGHAM HOTEL, AND HOW WE BECAME BIG PEOPLE I But now that I resume the main line of ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 26,2014 )
Fitz-James O'Brien by The Diamond Lens
epub | | 2013-07-13 | Author:The Diamond Lens

VI I arose the next morning almost at daybreak, and rushed to my microscope, I trembled as I sought the luminous world in miniature that contained my all. Animula was ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy March 26,2014 )
Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rabindranath Tagore

Produced by Chetan K. Jain and Eric Eldred Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that ...
( Category: Love Poems March 26,2014 )
Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

ACT 5 SCENE 4 The royal party enters, with Worcester and Vernon as prisoners. The king lays responsibility for the day’s bloodshed on Worcester for not accepting his offer of ...
( Category: Drama March 26,2014 )
The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham
epub |eng | 2012-06-11 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

CHAPTER XI The journey had seemed endless: it was already nightfall when they arrived at the town of Prentice, where they were to get off and drive some twelve miles ...
( Category: World March 26,2014 )
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-17 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

* * * We remained silent a long time. Posdnicheff sobbed and trembled before me. His face had become delicate and long, and his mouth had grown larger. "Yes," said ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
Men Against the Sea by James Norman Nordhoff
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-05-15 | Author:James Norman Nordhoff [Nordhoff, James Norman]

CHAPTER VIII During the following night the severity of the weather relaxed; at dawn the sea was so calm that for the first time in fifteen days we found it ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
A Stone for Danny Fisher (1952) by Robbins Harold
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Robbins, Harold [Robbins, Harold]

I stood in the hallway outside my door, searching my pockets for my key. It wasn’t there. Nothing was there except the five hundred-dollar bills and a stub of a ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Sharpe's Fury by Bernard Cornwell
epub |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell [Cornwell, Bernard]

THE NOTE came well after dark. Sharpe was waiting with his men in an empty stall of the embassy stables. His five men were all in cheap civilian clothes and ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
epub |eng | 2008-07-31 | Author:Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows [Shaffer, Mary Ann & Barrows, Annie]

An Animal Lover From Sally Ann Frobisher to Juliet 15th May 1946 Dear Miss Ashton, Miss Pribby told me you would be coming to Guernsey to hear about the war. ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins
epub |eng | 2007-08-06 | Author:Harold Robbins [Robbins, Harold]

I stood in the hallway outside my door, searching my pockets for my key. It wasn’t there. Nothing was there except the five hundred-dollar bills and a stub of a ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )

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