Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 1890-01-01 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four]

Chapter 9 A Break in the Chain It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him save ...
( Category: Murder March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Guy De Maupassant [Maupassant, Guy De]

#xa0; THE MARQUIS DE FUMEROL Roger de Tourneville was whiffing a cigar and blowing out small clouds of smoke every now and then, as he sat astride a chair amid ...
( Category: Short Stories March 13,2020 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Joseph Devlin [Devlin, Joseph]

In writing, however, it is different. Without a knowledge of the fundamentals of grammar we may be able to speak correctly from association with good speakers, but without such a ...
( Category: Rhetoric March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

Mrs. Stowe was accompanied on this second trip to Europe by her husband, her two eldest daughters, her son Henry, and her sister Mary (Mrs. Perkins). It was a pleasant ...
( Category: Authors March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-25 | Author:Victor Hugo [Victor Hugo]

CHAPTER II. Showing that a Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Very Different Persons The priest whom the girls had noticed on the top of the north tower, leaning over ...
( Category: French March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:W. H. Hudson [HUDSON, W. H.]

Chapter 12 TO FOLLOW IMPETUOUS, BIRD-LIKE RIMA IN HER DESCENT OF the hill would have been impossible, nor had I any desire to be a witness of old Nuflo’s discomfiture ...
( Category: Classics March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 1927-01-01 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

After the admission that Mme. Verdurin had made of the Principessa di Caprarola's intelligence, the second indication that the Verdurins were conscious of their future destiny was that (without, of ...
( Category: French March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

Theodosius looked as if he cared for nothing earthly. ‘She’s the daughter of a member of parliament,’ said Maria.—Theodosius started. ‘And her name is—?’ he inquired. ‘Miss Brook Dingwall.’ ‘Great ...
( Category: Short Stories March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Honoré de Balzac

( Category: Satire March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:James Joyce [Joyce, James]

Her maiden name was Jemina Brown And she lived with her mother in Irishtown. Place made me think of that I suppose. All tarred with the same brush. Wiping pens ...
( Category: Literary March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent. ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

2. I think of young Caddies always as he was seen in the New Kent Road, the sunset warm upon his perplexed and staring face. The Road was thick with ...
( Category: Adventure March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

From this Victoria Hotel one looks straight across a flat of trifling width to a lofty mountain barrier, which has a gateway in it shaped like an inverted pyramid. Beyond ...
( Category: Renaissance March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. Chapter XV THE LAD ...
( Category: Classics March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Jules Verne [Unbekannt]

In spite of my irritation I was moved with these words, as well as with the violence my uncle was doing to his own wishes in making so hazardous a ...
( Category: Adventure March 10,2020 )