epub, mobi |eng | 2006-04-06 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XXXIX Lady Laura Is Told By the time that Mr. Mildmay's great bill was going into committee Phineas was able to move about London in comfort,—with his arm, however, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-02-25 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

CHAPTER XIV CLEOPATRA "My new statue!" said Kenyon, who had positively forgotten it in the thought of Hilda; "here it is, under this veil." "Not a nude figure, I hope," ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

There have been claims that Henry VIII fathered other bastard children, although only one is based on compelling evidence.71 It has often been said that Henry would have had good ...

epub |eng | | Author:William Shakespeare

* * * Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild; Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill: Anon Adonis comes with ...

epub |eng | | Author:Julius Caesar [Caesar, Julius]

XLIX.—Caesar, when he perceived that his soldiers were fighting on unfavourable ground, and that the enemy's forces were increasing, being alarmed for the safety of his troops, sent orders to ...

mobi |eng | | Author:K Matthew

To further support this author, please post a review after you finish reading this book. To find out when K. Matthew has new books available and to be informed of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Connie Willis

TRANSCRIPT FROM THE DOMESDAY BOOK (046381–054957) 22 December 1320 (Old Style). Agnes’s knee is worse. It’s red and painful (an understatement—she screams when I try to touch it) and she ...

azw |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Baring-Gould, Sabine [Baring-Gould, Sabine]

In this chapter I purpose briefly examining the conditions under which men have been regarded as werewolves. Startling though the assertion may be, it is a matter of fact, that ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Baring-Gould, Sabine [Baring-Gould, Sabine]

CHAPTER X. MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH. Transformation into beasts forms an integral portion of all mythological systems. The gods of Greece were wont to change themselves into animals ...

mobi |eng | 2005-04-30 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Burial

19 He lay his forehead on the desk. He was smiling. He too went to pieces when leaving personal messages on answer machines. Then he strutted through to Justin's office. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-28 | Author:Aristophanes

can anyone viler be found? Why, yes, she’s a model of virtue and grace, if Cleophon’s knocking around! Stratonice, my dear, come, stand over her! Her name means ‘Unbeaten in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-31 | Author:Paul Roche

SECOND HERALD: Hear ye this: ye triumphal achievers who have gone beyond all mortal success; ye thrice-blessed tribe of wingèd beings, welcome your lord to his glorious palace. Behold, he ...

mobi, epub | | 2009-08-13 | Author:Torquato Tasso

| Go to Contents | Eleventh Book THE ARGUMENT With grave procession, songs and psalms devout Heaven's sacred aid the Christian lords invoke; That done, they scale the wall which ...