Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 1874-11-15 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

Part 2 Chapter 1 A Tartar camp AT a day's march from Kolyvan, several versts beyond the town of Diachinks, stretches a wide plain, planted here and there with great ...
( Category: War & Military March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-27 | Author:Franklin, Benjamin";Benjamin Franklin ["Franklin, Benjamin";Benjamin Franklin]

[67] A famous Greek philosopher, who lived about 582-500 B. C. The Golden Verses here ascribed to him are probably of later origin. "The time which he recommends for this ...
( Category: American Revolution March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Jonathan Swift [Swift, Jonathan]

He said so many other obliging things, and I knew him to be so honest a man, that I could not reject this proposal; the thirst I had of seeing ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

It was a good campaign that we made in that Valley of Holiness, and I was very well satisfied, and ready to move on now, but I struck a disappointment. ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

of the relief that appeared upon the butler's face, and perhaps with no less, that the wine was still untasted when he set it down to follow. It was a ...
( Category: Classics March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1900-03-16 | Author:Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885

CLAUDE FROLLO'S CELL 219 The scholar boldly entered. The archdeacon, to whom such a visitor in such a place was anything but welcome, started at the sight of him. "What! ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

Cities of the Plain [Volume 4] Sodome et Gomorrhe (1927) Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930) Introduction La femme aura Gomorrhe et l’homme aura Sodome. Alfred de Vigny. The ...
( Category: French March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

Chapter 11 On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the pavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers to enter and annihilate sorrow ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

"Speaking of the grave reminds me of old age and other disagreeable matters, and I would remark that one grows old in Italy twice or three times as fast as ...
( Category: Short Stories March 15,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Edwin A. Abbott [Abbott, Edwin A.]

PART II OTHER WORLDS “O brave new worlds, That have such people in them!” PART II OTHER LANDS § 13.—How I had a Vision of Lineland IT WAS THE LAST ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

As a final effort, the singer rendered some verses which described a vision of Britain being annihilated by America, and Ireland bursting her bonds. A carefully prepared crisis was reached ...
( Category: Short Stories March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-04 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER 31. THE WEDDING Dawn with its passionless blank face, steals shivering to the church beneath which lies the dust of little Paul and his mother, and looks in at ...
( Category: Satire March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Daniel Defoe

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 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:John Stuart Mill

VII Of True And False Democracy; Representation Of All, And Representation Of The Majority Only IT has been seen, that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two ...
( Category: Political March 14,2020 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:D.H. Lawrence

CHAPTER XX. .................. GLADIATORIAL AFTER THE FIASCO OF THE proposal, Birkin had hurried blindly away from Beldover, in a whirl of fury. He felt he had been a complete fool, ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction March 14,2020 )