epub |eng | | Author:Herman Melville

* * * BOOK XII. ISABEL: MRS. GLENDINNING: THE PORTRAIT: AND LUCY. I. When on the previous night Pierre had left the farm-house where Isabel harbored, it will be remembered ...

epub | | | Author:Herman Melville

CHAPTER 63 The Crotch Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. The crotch alluded to on a previous ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Herman Melville

Chapter 18 After the mysterious interview in the fore-chains--the one so abruptly ended there by Billy--nothing especially german to the story occurred until the events now about to be narrated. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Herman Melville

* * * THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN. What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearth-stone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead, and crashed down among ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

O western wind, you are at enmity with my mahogany table and spats, and also, alas, with the vulgarity of my mistress, the little actress, who has never been able ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER XV Whether too slight or too vague the ties that bind people casually meeting in a hotel at midnight, they possess one advantage at least over the bonds which ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1986-03-07 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

It was at that moment (Rezia had gone shopping) that the great revelation took place. A voice spoke from behind the screen. Evans was speaking. The dead were with him. ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

— we know as if we heard him how Mr Pope’s tongue flickered like a lizard’s, how his eyes flashed, how his hand trembled, how he loved, how he lied, ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1943-01-02 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

“What is your name?” “Dominique Francon.” “And your occupation, Miss Francon?” “Newspaper woman.” “You are the author of the brilliant column ‘Your House’ appearing in the New York Banner?” “I ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Isaac Asimov

15 THE PSYCHOLOGIST There was reason to the fact that the element known as “pure science” was the freest form of life on the Foundation. In a Galaxy where the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 | | | Author:Oscar Wilde

CHAPTER 10 When his servant entered, he looked at him steadfastly and wondered if he had thought of peering behind the screen. The man was quite impassive and waited for ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

Chapter 33 THE PHONE rang. Mr. Halloway picked it up. “Dad, this is Willy, we can’t go to the police station, we may not be home today, tell Mom, tell ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-19 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers—but outside Gatsby’s window it began to rain again so we ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Honore de Balzac

That day went on echoing in our lives; Marcas confirmed us in our determination to leave France, where talented young people bursting with energy are being crushed beneath the weight ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:Gustave Flaubert

[12] Their love had been reawakened. Often, Emma would even write to him suddenly in the middle of the day; then, through the windowpane, she would signal to Justin, who, ...