British & Irish
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Peter Higgins [Higgins, Peter]

10 After sundown in the balmy nights of summer the well dinnered families of the List, Rizhin’s plush elite, take to the paths of the Trezzini Pleasure Gardens in the ...
( Category: Historical January 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:White, T. H. [White, T. H.]

Chapter VIII The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old–fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. Some of them were even striped ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

'Charles from Knapwater House brought it,' she said. 'Miss Aldclyffe's writing,' said Mr. Springrove, before Edward had recognized it himself. 'Now 'tis all right; she's going to make an offer; ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:John Galsworthy

CHAPTER VII Afternoon at Timothy's If old Jolyon, as he got into his cab, had said: 'I won't believe a word of it!' he would more truthfully have expressed his ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

X. She Fails to Vanish Still Pierston had not turned far back towards the castle when he was overtaken by Somers and the man who carried his painting lumber. They ...
( Category: Short Stories January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Walpole, Hugh [Walpole, Hugh]

TUMBLE DOWNSTAIRS Old Stane stood, as he liked to do, the blue skirts of his coat spread, before the fireplace. Judith sat on the window–ledge, peeling potatoes from a large ...
( Category: Domestic Life January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter III A Conference and the Consequence Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter XXI 'On thy cold grey stones, O sea!' Stephen had said that he should come by way of Bristol, and thence by a steamer to Castle Boterel, in order ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-29 | Author:White, T. H. [White, T. H.]

CHAPTER IX On a Bright Winter Day, Six Months Later, Joyous Gard Was Invested. the Sun Shone at Right-angles to the North Wind, Leaving the East Side of the Furrows ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-20 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter Fourth "My native land, good night." Lord Byron. In the present day, a journey from Edinburgh to London is a matter at once safe, brief, and simple, however inexperienced ...
( Category: Scottish January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Chapter 13 I don’t know if you happen to be familiar with a poem called ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by the bird Tennyson whom Jeeves had mentioned when ...
( Category: Humorous January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:James Runcie [Runcie, James]

It was not clear how soon Keating’s ‘watch’ on G staircase would begin and Sidney asked Hildegard whether they should warn Orlando Richards that a surveillance operation was about to ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-16 | Author:Robert Chalmers [Chalmers, Robert]

He took a taxi back to Calle Vic, where he had a shower and changed into his work clothes. He caught the fifteen bus to the school, down Diagonal, the ...
( Category: Contemporary December 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Laurens, Stephanie [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER 10 An hour later, Declan returned to the bungalow, walked into the drawing room where Edwina was waiting, and slumped into an armchair. For several seconds, he stared unseeing ...
( Category: Historical December 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER 10 An hour later, Declan returned to the bungalow, walked into the drawing room where Edwina was waiting, and slumped into an armchair. For several seconds, he stared unseeing ...
( Category: Historical December 29,2015 )