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Catherine: a Story by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

* * * (Here, as in a theatre, the orchestra is supposed to play something melodious. The people get up, shake themselves, yawn, and settle down in their seats again. ...
( Category: Humor March 3,2018 )
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

"Her heart it is another's, she—never—can—be—mine;" and to laugh at the end of the song. "Well, well," says he; "it is a very kind note, a very proper little note; ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 3,2018 )
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

* * * This was the story told by Madame de Liliengarten, and the reader will have no difficulty in drawing from it that part which affected myself and my ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
Fraternity by John Galsworthy
epub |eng | 2006-06-14 | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

CHAPTER XXIII THE "BOOK OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD" It is fitting that a few words should be said about the writer of the "Book of Universal Brotherhood." Sylvanus Stone, having graduated ...
( Category: British & Irish March 3,2018 )
Grammar of motives, by Burke Kenneth 1897-1993
mobi |eng | 1945-03-03 | Author:Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993. [Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.]

less" would be all that was left to serve as the dialectical counterpart, or "ground," of a concept so comprehensive. No, that is not the only recourse here. Another was ...
( Category: Philosophy March 3,2018 )
Lucia In Wartime by Tom Holt
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-12-29 | Author:Tom Holt [Holt, Tom]

8 Lucia departed to London to keep an eye on Georgie. Unable to get a taxi at Waterloo, she was compelled to travel by omnibus to Brompton Square and, carrying ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 3,2018 )
May Contain Traces Of Magic by Tom Holt
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Tom Holt [Holt, Tom]

CHAPTER EIGHT “Hello,” Chris replied. “Thanks for driving me home,” she said. “Would you like to come in for a coffee?” Said the spider to the fly. He was still ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 3,2018 )
Irresistible by Mary Balogh
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary Balogh

Nathaniel kept talking. Lady Gullis, with charming condescension, complimented Lavinia on her appearance and asked her if she had yet received vouchers for Almack’s. Nathaniel hoped Sophie would not realize ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )
Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins
epub |eng | 2010-11-19 | Author:Rebecca Ann Collins [Collins, Rebecca Ann]

Emily and Caroline arrived early on Sunday, looking forward to being back at Pemberley. Emily promptly retired to the gallery. When she grew tired of reading, she liked nothing more ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2018 )
The Satyricon AND The Apocolocyntosis by Petronius & Seneca
epub |eng | 2005-01-27 | Author:Petronius, & Seneca,

Won’t you come back to life? Won’t you give up your womanly error and enjoy the comforts of life as long as you can? That very corpse lying there should ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 1,2018 )
On the Yard (New York Review Books Classics) by Braly Malcolm
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Braly, Malcolm [Braly, Malcolm]

At breakfast Manning asked, “Are you sure you’re all right?” “I may hit the sick line. In case they check me into the hospital, there’s something I’d like you to ...
( Category: Contemporary March 1,2018 )
A Legacy (New York Review Books Classics) by Sybille Bedford
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Sybille Bedford [Bedford, Sybille]

The Merz’s had a family vault in Berlin. Again Julius travelled in a private railway carriage. One wagon-lits compartment, lined with flowers, held the coffin; in another Julius had his ...
( Category: British & Irish March 1,2018 )
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by Barber Cesar Lombardi; Greenblatt Stephen;
epub |eng | 2012-02-25 | Author:Barber, Cesar Lombardi; Greenblatt, Stephen;

To you your father should be as a god; One that compos’d your beauties; yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax, By him imprinted, ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 25,2018 )
Shakespeare, Our Contemporary by Jan Kott
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Jan Kott [Kott, Jan]

The world is real, and the shoe really pinches. Suffering is also real. But the gesture with which the ruin of a man demands that his pinching shoe be taken ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 25,2018 )
In Hotel Bertram by Agatha Christie
epub | | 2010-08-25 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Hoofdstuk 14 'Weetje, ' zei hoofdinspecteur Davy, 'ik mag die Humfries niet. ' 'Denkt u dat hij iets op zijn kerfstok heeft?' vroeg Campbell. 'Nou... ' Vader zei dit een ...
( Category: Mystery February 24,2018 )

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