Classic Literature & Fiction
azw3 |eng | 1993-08-15 | Author:Charles Perrault [Perrault, Charles]

Moral Diamonds and rubies may Work some wonders in their way; But a gentle word is worth More than all the gems on earth. Another Moral Though—when otherwise inclined— It’s ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Natsume Sōseki

VOLUME III I WHEN I WAS describing my fence trotting exercises, I must have mentioned that bamboo fence which encloses my master’s garden. Beyond that fence to the south of ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1851-10-18 | Author:Herman Melville

CHAPTER 72 The Monkey-rope In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew. Now hands are wanted here, ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Isaac Babel

AT THE WORKERS’ RETREAT Beyond the veranda is the night, full of slow sounds and majestic darkness. An inexhaustible rain patrols the violet clefts of the mountains, and the gray ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1834-01-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

EXTRACT FROM THE BLANK-VERSE TRAGEDY BORIS GODUNOV (SCENE V) Pimen’s Monologue 1603. A Cell in the Monastery of the Miracle. Night. FATHER PIMEN, a monk, writing under a lamp. PIMEN. ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-29 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

18 * * * THE BLOKES WHO run the railway don’t make it easy for you to get from Wimbledon to King’s Deverill, feeling no doubt – and I suppose ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1774-01-01 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What furthermore makes a complete misanthrope of the English poet and spreads an unpleasant aura of repugnance against all things over his writing is that, because of the numerous schisms ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-05-10 | Author:Novalis

* * * * Mutter or Metallmutter is the gang or matrix that contains the ore. [*See Note II.] CHAPTER VI MEN, WHO ARE born for business, for action, cannot ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-14 | Author:Giovanni Verga [Verga, Giovanni]

CHAPTER XI Once, on his amblings, ’Ntoni Malavoglia had seen two young men who had set sail a few years earlier from Riposto in search of their fortunes, and who ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1835-01-01 | Author:Honoré de Balzac

IV CAT-O’-NINE-LIVES Two days later, Poiret and Mademoiselle Michonneau found themselves sitting on a bench in the sun, on a secluded path in the Jardin des Plantes, talking to the ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Henry Scott Stokes [Stokes, Henry Scott]

Photo: Eikoh Hosoe He posed for an album of photographs by the fashionable photographer Eikoh Hosoe. In these magnificent pictures he appears in a number of extraordinary poses—lying on his ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski [Bukowski, Charles]

I figured 500-plus air might make this community college outside Detroit worth my soul so I got on American and worked the stewardesses for extra drinks. I was to land ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Tommaso Landolfi [Landolfi, Tommaso]

7 “What do you mean—and yet,” Nena had asked coldly. “What are you saying? Do you realize that you are blaspheming?” Lilla had timidly ventured. And Bellonia grumbled something to ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:James Joyce

"Has he paid you yet?" "Not yet," said Mr. O'Connor. "I hope to God he'll not leave us in the lurch tonight." Mr. Hynes laughed. "O, he'll pay you. Never ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 12,2021 )
epub |ita | 2012-02-07 | Author:Andrea Camilleri [Camilleri, Andrea]

( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 12,2021 )