Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

He drew a deep breath—yet, strangely, it was as if the dream were still going on: his door was wide open, and a man completely unknown to him was standing ...
( Category: Russian June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Pumphrey, Margaret B. [Pumphrey, Margaret B.]

Samoset AT last spring came bringing health and hope to the Pilgrims. Again the axes rang out in the forest, and the half-built cottages were soon finished. The snow melted ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction June 8,2017 )
epub |nld | 2009-12-27 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

Chapter 11 The Palantír The sun was sinking behind the long western arm of the mountains when Gandalf and his companions, and the king with his Riders, set out again ...
( Category: Epic June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Keyes [Keyes, Daniel]

PROGRESS REPORT 14 June 15—Our escape hit the papers yesterday, and the tabloids had a field day. On the second page of the Daily Press there was an old picture ...
( Category: Short Stories June 7,2017 )
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 June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:John Stuart Mill [Mill, John Stuart]

In the preceding argument for universal but graduated suffrage, I have taken no account of difference of sex. I consider it to be as entirely irrelevant to political rights as ...
( Category: Democracy June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Jane Austen

Cavendish Square, very close to the Rushworths’ house on Wimpole Street. [From The Repository of arts, literature, fashions, manufactures, &c, Vol. IX (1813), p. 178] Her influence, or at least ...
( Category: Victorian May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

2 Eight days later, Eric was in New York, with Yves’ last words still ringing in his ears, and his touch and his smell all over his body. And Yves’ ...
( Category: African American March 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Douglass; Frederick

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

* The byname of the Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656). 7 Noise and commotion filled the Zaporozhian camp. At first nobody could explain how it had come to pass ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

I have given an Account already of what I found to ha’ been the Case down the River among the Sea-faring Men, how the Ships lay in the Offing, as ...
( Category: Biographical July 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-30 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Fifteen TUPPENCE RECEIVES A PROPOSAL Julius sprang up. “What?” “I thought you were aware of that.” “When did she leave?” “Let me see. Today is Monday, is it not? It ...
( Category: Murder June 13,2016 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-14 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

He said it was without doubt an apoplexy, explained the man. But when the doctor arrived, the patient was past help. Mr John Wilson, to whom I was presented by ...
( Category: Murder May 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:Miles Burton [Burton, Miles]

XIII Before attempting to arrange these further facts in their proper places, Arnold decided to pay one more call. He took the tube to Hampstead and went to Mrs. Wardour’s ...
( Category: Murder May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

Chapter Nine Elinor, for some time after he left her, for some time even after the sound of his carriage had died away, remained too much oppressed by a croud ...
( Category: Regency April 17,2016 )