British & Irish
epub |eng | 1726-01-01 | Author:Swift, Jonathan [Swift, Jonathan]

THE END OF THE SECOND PART. Part III A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN Chapter I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1814-02-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER XXV The intercourse of the two families was at this period more nearly restored to what it had been in the autumn, than any member of the old intimacy ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1819-01-18 | Author:Scott, Walter [Scott, Walter]

CHAPTER XXVI The hottest horse will oft be cool, The dullest will show fire; The friar will often play the fool, The fool will play the friar. Old Song1 When ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-04 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

They sounded the shawms outside the palace of the Pythias. I went, shrouded, to the vehicle which by tradition I never saw. I was helped into it and supported. It ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1859-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER 19 An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was startled by the shining of ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Howard, Jonathan L. [Howard, Jonathan L.]

Talbot Saint John Barnaby—“The Pub Poisoner.” Former landlord. All officers should avoid gratis refreshment at public houses until Barnaby is back in custody. Leslie Coleridge—“The Part-Time Children’s Entertainer of Death.” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-30 | Author:Moorcock, Michael [Moorcock, Michael]

THE EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER In Which Lord and Lady Rhoone Discuss the Appearance of Mysterious Disturbances in the Order of the Court THERE SHOULD,” said Lord Rhoone, taking the last of ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:White, T. H. [White, T. H.]

Chapter XV The year of their happiness ended with Arthur’s return – and almost immediately collapsed in ruin, but not on account of the King. The evening after his home—coming, ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXX AFTER WELL CONSIDERING THE matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick’s being the ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-09 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

‘Have you any idea what “c” stands for?’ Percival asked – and again there was that note of hope which Castle found irritating. ‘It could mean, couldn’t it, “code”, to ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-15 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

XVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip THIS FIFTH TRIP WAS quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipotad of a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-05 | Author:Durrell, Lawrence [Durrell, Lawrence]

Berlin was also in the grip of snow, but here the sullen goaded helplessness of the Russias was replaced by a malignant euphoria hardly less dispiriting. The air was tonic ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-27 | Author:Rushdie, Salman [Rushdie, Salman]

He awoke to screaming and light and open windows, women running everywhere while the midget Giulietta screeched into his ear, “What did you do to her?” Courtesans without their finery, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

3 I ‘I’VE BROUGHT YOU some stamps,’ Scobie said. ‘I’ve been collecting them for a week—from everybody. Even Mrs Carter has contributed a magnificent parakeet—look at it—from somewhere in South ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Moore, Brian [Moore, Brian]

CHAPTER X ‘Miss Hearne. MISS HEARNE. HELLO THERE? MISS HEARNE?’ She was on the floor. OmyGod, where? Where? My room. She raised herself on an elbow, staring in panic at ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )