Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 1988-08-14 | Author:V. S. Pritchett

Chapter Eleven The summers at Melikhovo were delectable, but the winters were severe. By 1893, when he was thirty-three, Chekhov was still slaving half the week at the book on ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction August 7,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-07-09 | Author:Thomas Malory

( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction August 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Graham, Greene,]

2 From eight-thirty in the morning until eleven he dealt with a case of petty larceny; there were six witnesses to examine, and he didn’t believe a word that any ...
( Category: Home Repair August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-14 | Author:L. P. Hartley [Hartley, L. P.]

Chapter 17 Call at the studio in Chelsea first, and then pick up the girl-friend on Campden Hill - that used to be the form. But this time, the third ...
( Category: Job Hunting August 3,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:Ford Madox Ford [Ford, Ford Madox]

Served by Ras’us!’ a throaty voice proclaimed, ‘I’d be tickled to death to know that I could go And stay right there . . . ’ The ex-sergeant-major was adding ...
( Category: Victorian July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 0160-07-14 | Author:Lucius Apuleius [Apuleius, Lucius]

Part 6 Chapter 1 How Apuleius carried away the Gentlewoman, and how they were taken againe by the theeves, and what a kind of death was invented for them. By ...
( Category: Multicultural July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Jose Rizal

20 THE ARBITRATOR What Father Irene had said was correct: Though the question of the Academy of Castilian Language had been presented a good time back, it was coming to ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese July 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

“I sincerely hope that we won’t!” cried Mme Verdurin. “Heaven preserve us from him; he’s too deadly for words, a stupid, ill-bred boor.” On hearing these words Cottard exhibited an ...
( Category: French July 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-04 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

* * * 1. Francis Planté (1839–1934) was a famous French pianist who played at many Parisian salons. Anton Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829–1894) was a great Russian composer and pianist. Pierre-Charles-Edouard ...
( Category: French July 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:J. M. Barrie [Barrie, J. M.]

CHAPTER 9 The Never Bird The last sounds Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea. He was ...
( Category: Fantasy July 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

Chapter VII Table of Contents Next day they fell in with more sails, all circling slowly from the east northerly towards the west. But just when they expected to make ...
( Category: Classics July 20,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Kevin Starr

8 MAKING IT HAPPEN Labor Through the Great Depression and Beyond Preparing citrus for shipment, the early 1930s CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY The Great Depression came late to California, and it ...
( Category: Reference July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something. He could not get up at the brutes and he had nothing to shoot with; but looking about ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

Frodo dozed, though the pain of his wound was slowly growing, and a deadly chill was spreading from his shoulder to his arm and side. His friends watched over him, ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

So the glad days passed; and on the eighth day of May the Riders of Rohan made ready, and rode off by the North-way, and with them went the sons ...
( Category: Epic July 16,2020 )