Classics
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

In some such cool hope he descended the marble steps, disturbing faintly the sleep of two silky Russian wolfhounds at the bottom, and set off along a walk of white ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Rinehart [Rinehart, Mary]

CHAPTER XVI STOP, THIEF! I was pretty nervous when I took charge of the news stand that evening. Amanda King had an appointment with the dentist and had left everything ...
( Category: Cozy March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

The country had been a place of terror; but the town was in its way even more depressing. Down that long valley there was at least a certain gloomy grandeur ...
( Category: Murder March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-25 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

Chapter XVIII. Mademoiselle Oliva. Table of Contents During this time, the man who had pointed out the fictitious queen to the people touched on the shoulder another man who stood ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Sir Walter]

"It is the badness of his fare that has put him out of humour," said the Countess Isabelle. "Cheer up, Seignior Quentin, and should we ever visit my ancient Castle ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]

He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject this proposal; the thirst I had of seeing ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Unbekannt]

'And why, you will say, when I expect such steady and unalterable constancy from a lover, why should I be anxious about what Hazlewood does, or to whom he offers ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hjalmar Boyesen [Boyesen, Hjalmar]

THE OLD MAN OF HOY, ON THE ORKNEYS. "I'll kill thee; but unhappily I have no weapon that will avail me." "Well, since thou seest that thou canst not kill ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

of the relief that appeared upon the butler's face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when he set it down to follow. It was a ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper

CHAPTER XVII. Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, soothe a dying hour; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing As e'er won ...
( Category: Classics March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-19 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne

( Category: Classics March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:Baroness Orczy

Twenty The small diligence which had left Les Andelys in the early morning rattled into the courtyard of the Auberge du Cheval Blanc in Rouen soon after seven o’clock in ...
( Category: Classics March 14,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Baroness Orczy

17: Reunion It was a thoughtful Theresia who turned into the narrow hall of The Fisherman’s Rest a few moments later. The inn, when she left it earlier in the ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Daniel Defoe

I slept none that night; the farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the nature of such things, ...
( Category: Classics March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Daniel Defoe

I come now back to my own history, which grows near a conclusion, as to the travels I took in this part of the world. We were now at sea, ...
( Category: Classics March 13,2020 )