Action & Adventure
epub |eng | 1726-01-01 | Author:Swift, Jonathan [Swift, Jonathan]

THE END OF THE SECOND PART. Part III A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN Chapter I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1819-01-18 | Author:Scott, Walter [Scott, Walter]

CHAPTER XXVI The hottest horse will oft be cool, The dullest will show fire; The friar will often play the fool, The fool will play the friar. Old Song1 When ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-21 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Panther stood rigid, but many Rangers, including Captain Garner, shouted ‘No! No!’—for there was no greater disgrace in the armed services than for a man to stand at his final ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Finney, Jack [Finney, Jack]

It was my fault, of course, for not thinking of the obvious: that a man like Jake Pickering, hating his job and status as a clerk, would walk back to ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Crais, Robert [Crais, Robert]

21 • • • His eyes opened, and Pike was as alert as if it were the middle of the afternoon, not two in the morning. Sleep would not come ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1956-01-06 | Author:Christopher, John [Christopher, John]

The sky had remained cloudless, and as they drove to the north the stars appeared overhead. But the moon would not be up until after midnight; they drove through a ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1914-01-01 | Author:Burroughs, Edgar Rice [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

XV The Forest God When Clayton heard the report of the firearm he fell into an agony of fear and apprehension. He knew that one of the sailors might be ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-02 | Author:Endore, Guy [Endore, Guy]

Chapter Eleven The issue of the seventeenth of November of Galignani’s Messager contained among the faits divers an inconspicuous item that by chance came to the attention of Aymar, as ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1819-01-01 | Author:Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]

CHAPTER XIII I NOW HASTEN TO the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:Martin, George R. R. [Martin, George R. R.]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN _____________________________________ Aboard the Steamer FEVRE DREAM, New Orleans, August 1857 IT seemed as though half the steamers in New Orleans had decided to leave that afternoon, Abner Marsh ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lindsay, David [Lindsay, David]

Chapter 14. POLECRAB THE MORNING SLOWLY PASSED. Maskull made some convulsive movements, and opened his eyes. He sat up, blinking. All was night-like and silent in the forest. The strange ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-07 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

‘Wherever’s Joe?’ worried Annie. ‘Nearly three o’clock an’ not back yet. I’ve a mind to clear away. Seen your father, boys?’ Charles and Albert shook their heads. ‘Can’t fathom out ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Tepper, Sheri S. [Tepper, Sheri S.]

CHAPTER 10 T he doctor who had drugged Abasio at Nelda’s behest had been returned to his practice and Nelda herself to her songhouse, both by the mercy of Old ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXX AFTER WELL CONSIDERING THE matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick’s being the ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-26 | Author:Wheatley, Dennis [Wheatley, Dennis]

11 The Stolen Honeymoon Now that the die was cast, Adam put the future out of his mind and Chela’s happiness was unalloyed. Time drifted by unnoticed as they talked, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )