British & Irish
epub |eng | | Author:Max Adams

‘Which way?’ Watson asked. Dawson looked at the German map which he’d placed on the ground right beside him. ‘I think we need to move further north. In fact, I ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-20 | Author:They Do It;Mirrors

“Suit yourself.” Her voice was a little bit smother as she was already wiggling her dress over her hea She wore pants, whether Estelle ever did or notplain, white knit ...
( Category: Mystery March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

It was the language of nature, and arose from the heart of the deprived mother, as it did from that gifted imaginative poet while furnishing with appropriate expressions the ideal ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER XV. The feather'd songster, chanticleer, Had wound his bugle-horn, And told the early villager The coming of the morn. King Edward saw the ruddy streaks Of light eclipse the ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-16 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER XVIII. Sir, stay at home and take an old man's counsel; Seek not to bask you by a stranger's hearth; Our own blue smoke is warmer than their fire. ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Louis de Bernières [Louis de Bernières]

( Category: British & Irish March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-28 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)]

* * * Miss Mapp had been tempted when she went home that morning, after enjoying the autumn tints, to ask Diva to lunch with her, but remembered in time ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

Chapter 5. The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd Basil Grant had comparatively few friends besides myself; yet he was the reverse of an unsociable man. He would talk to any ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

LIMERICKS AND COUNSELS OF PERFECTION It is customary to remark that modern problems cannot easily be attacked because they are so complex. In many cases I believe it is really ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

The Wings of Stone The preceding essay is about a half-built house upon my private horizon; I wrote it sitting in a garden-chair; and as, though it was a week ...
( Category: Humor March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"Whoever made it, who is wiser, and we hope better than we, made it under strange limitations, and with painful conditions of pleasure. "In the first and darkest of its ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-03-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

And now there came upon the scene a new character, and one that played his part, too, in the story; I mean the present lord, Alexander, whose birth (17th July, ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-01 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

CHAPTER IV Through the great arched window of the hall I saw the hotel brougham waiting at the door. On passing the door of the front room (it was originally ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XVII Mr Slow's Chambers She came down late to breakfast on the following morning, not being present at prayers, and when she came down she wore a bonnet. "I ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

‘I hope they will be kind words,’ she said. ‘As we are to part so soon, there should be none unkind spoken.’ ‘I do not know much about kindness,’ he ...
( Category: Anthologies March 3,2018 )