epub |eng | 2017-06-07 | Author:C. H. B. Kitchin [Kitchin, C. H. B.]

XII THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS By now, the trappings of Christmas had made their way from the shops into private houses. In the Pollitts, a hundred front doors had opened ...

epub |fra | 2022-01-10 | Author:André Gide [Gide, André]

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epub |eng | 2023-10-15 | Author:Phoenicia Rogerson [Rogerson, Phoenicia]

Theseus II How do you become a hero? That’s not rhetorical. And it’s not a moral thing. I wasn’t stuck on what traits to embody or what the most righteous ...

epub |eng | | Author:Claudia Burgoa [Burgoa, Claudia]

Chapter Thirty-Two Finnegan After I mentioned that Teddy might join us soon, Piper excuses herself. Derek helps her to her room. I stay on the patio, staring at the fire ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-23 | Author:Claudia Burgoa [Burgoa, Claudia]

Chapter Thirty-Two Finnegan After I mentioned that Teddy might join us soon, Piper excuses herself. Derek helps her to her room. I stay on the patio, staring at the fire ...

epub |eng | | Author:Claudia Burgoa [B, Claudia]

When I arrive at the farm, there are no fences or guards around. It’s just crops, silos, and a house. My gut clenches. Deep down, I know this isn’t right. ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Jiří Karásek [Karásek, Jiří]

XIII He wandered around and lay in bed for entire days. His senses seemed to have become incapable of seeing anything, hearing anything, judging, feeling interest in anything. That his ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-25 | Author:Charles Jackson [Jackson, Charles]

IX In pants and bra, Billie Hauman stood before the mirror, doing her face. Ethel Grandin, dressed, watched her from the wicker chair. She did not really hear the aimless ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-02 | Author:Oscar Wilde [Wilde, Oscar]

The DUCHESS and LADY AGATHA go out. LADY WINDERMERE. How horrible! I understand now what Lord Darlington meant by the imaginary instance of the couple not two years married. Oh, ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-27 | Author:Geoff Brown

23 I awoke in darkness. But I knew that it was morning. I switched on the lamp and looked at my watch. It was five past four. I could not ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-05 | Author:Francis King [King, Francis]

CHAPTER XIX The next day, Doctor Phipps called to see Aunt Frances, and was asked to examine Hugh as well. “Not much wrong with this young fellow,” he assured them. ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:John Hampson [Hampson, John]

III When the car pulled up outside the Greyhound Inn with a jerk, Roy Grovedon turned to his companion gravely, and asked, “Well, which shall it be? Inn or ancestral ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:C.H.B. Kitchin

V. THE SUMMER TERM (1) 4th May, 1910. Mapp’s Club, St James’s, S.W. My dear Francis, I’m sorry our leave-taking was so bustled yesterday, but perhaps it was as well. ...

epub |eng | 2021-11-02 | Author:Paul Buckland

CHAPTER 6 “Colin, this is wonderful! The last person on earth I expected to see up here . . .” Alan Kendrick spoke excitedly, hardly able to contain the intense ...