Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:James Cabell

IN TIME’S HOUR-GLASS ~ “WELL, WELL!” SAID JURGEN, WHEN he had taken off all that foolish ironmongery, and had made himself comfortable in his shirt; “well, beyond doubt, the situation ...
( Category: Historical March 28,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

L X I V The Transaction I wandered through the streets and retired at nine o’clock. Unable to sleep, I set about reading and writing. At eleven o’clock I was ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

CHAPTER XXVIII. "Strange thing! Again, when I had left my study, and was passing through the familiar rooms, again the hope came to me that nothing had happened. But the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1898-03-15 | Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins]

IX THE main justification for the subjection of women, which is commonly advanced, is the alleged advantage to motherhood resultant from her extreme specialization to the uses of maternity under ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

( Category: French March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no. "You are the fellow we want," said ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I slept none that night; the farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my apprehensions were, which is something contrary to the nature of such things, ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

“What’s the idea of all this ‘distracted’ stuff, Amory?” asked Alec one day, and then as Amory pretended to be cramped over his book in a daze: “Oh, don’t try ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-21 | Author:Lewis Carroll [Carroll, Lewis]

'What is it you want to buy?' the Sheep said at last, looking up for a moment from her knitting. 'I don't QUITE know yet,' Alice said, very gently. 'I ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]

I observed among them a Dutchman, who seemed to be of some authority, though he was not commander of either ship. He knew us by our countenances to be Englishmen, ...
( Category: Classics March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-06 | Author:Herman Melville [Hoffmann, A.]

CHAPTER 60. The Line. With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Chapter XXVIII It was clear that I must repair to our town next day, and in the first flow of my repentance, it was equally clear that I must stay ...
( Category: Literary March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Chapter V. Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello Table of Contents 1844. Arrival at Marseilles—A Character—Villa at Genoa—Sirocco—Sunsets and Scenery—Address to Maclise—French and Italian Skies—The Mediterranean—The Cicala—French Consul of Genoa—Learning Italian—Trades-people—Genoa ...
( Category: Historical March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.M. Forster

CHAPTER X: CECIL AS A HUMOURIST ~ THE SOCIETY OUT OF WHICH Cecil proposed to rescue Lucy was perhaps no very splendid affair, yet it was more splendid than her ...
( Category: Victorian March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 1951-07-15 | Author:Edith Wharton

The two cousins remained silent, Charlotte as usual bolt upright, her thin hands clutched on the arms of her old-fashioned rush-bottomed seat, Delia somewhat heavily sunk into the depths of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 22,2020 )