Classics
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 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

Besides these four divisions — the regular Sioux — there were five tribes of seceders called Assiniboins; the Menatopæ Assiniboins, two hundred, on Mouse river, between the Assiniboin and the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

The light becomes stronger as the sun rises higher, the daylight streams through the fictitious crater, and I shall soon be able to estimate the cavern’s dimensions. This is how ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:John Buchan

CHAPTER 9 Many times that day I wished that my education had included modern Greek. Through the hot afternoon and evening I remained in the little room, bored and anxious ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Baroness Orczy

4 An hour later two men were speeding down the Chemin de la Digue which leads to the seashore. When they had reached the edge of the cliffs they turned ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 1840-02-15 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

Chapter 5 April 10, 1792. The weather was now again most delicious, and revived our spirits exceedingly. The sun began to have power, and the river was quite free of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 1916-01-01 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

Chapter 5. I Take A Partner That meeting with Lumley scared me badly, but it also clinched my resolution. The most pacific fellow on earth can be gingered into pugnacity. ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 11,2020 )