Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Teresa of Avila

( Category: Saints February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-15 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

Many of the things that M. de Charlus had told me had driven a vigorous spur into my imagination and, making it forget how much the reality had disappointed me ...
( Category: French February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER 71 The Jeroboam’s Story Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock. By and ...
( Category: Sea Stories February 16,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-12-21 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

IV He flattered himself on the following day that there was no smiling among the servants when he at least asked for Mrs. Miller at her hotel. This lady and ...
( Category: Literary February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:Richard Burton [Burton, Richard]

( Category: Folklore February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Sam Selvon & Caryl Phillips & Dohra Ahmad

* * * * * * Gallows was going up the Bayswater Road that same night. The kind of thing they use for the pavements there, in the night you ...
( Category: Emigration & Immigration February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-13 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

XI He had recently read an article praising a new method of curing clubfoot, and, as he was a devotee of progress, he entertained the patriotic idea that Yonville, so ...
( Category: Literary February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-17 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

17 Litvinov did not return home; he went off into the mountains and, making his way into a thicket, threw himself to the ground and lay there prone for about ...
( Category: Russian February 16,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-05-06 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“City of—, June 21, 18—. “P. S.—The box will reach you, by wagon, on the day after your receipt of this letter. Our respects to Mr. Shuttleworthy. “H., F., B., ...
( Category: United States February 15,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-03 | Author:H. G. Wells

XVI the exodus from london So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning—the stream of flight ...
( Category: Alien Invasion January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Sherwood Anderson

III "I DO not mean to say that after that evening I did think more clearly, but after that day and its adventures other days and weeks did come marching ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:O'Brien, Flann;

Chapter 8 After MacCruiskeen had tiptoed delicately from the room like a trained nurse and shut the door without a sound, I found myself standing by the bed and wondering ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Christine Pizan [Pizan, Christine]

30. Christine talks about all the good that women have brought into the world, both now and in the past. ‘My lady, though I can see that women have brought ...
( Category: French November 20,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Thomas Wolfe [Wolfe, Thomas]

He harried his deficient subscribers for payment, with a wild tenacity. He accepted their easy promises without question; he hunted them down in their own rooms, or in the rooms ...
( Category: Coming of Age November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miguel De Cervantes

The Generous Lover * "O lamentable ruins of the ill-fated Nicosia,[76] still moist with the blood of your valorous and unfortunate defenders! Were you capable of feeling, we might jointly ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 8,2018 )