Classic Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Adventure VII. The Crooked Man One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 30,2021 )
azw, epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Robert A. Bennet [Bennet, Robert A.]

CHAPTER XVIII—The Shadow of Death When we came out into the portico Satsuma girded on his own sword and, in the face of the hatamoto officials, ordered our swords and ...
( Category: British & Irish Literature & Fiction May 25,2021 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:Beach, Rex Ellingwood [Ellingwood, Beach, Rex]

Anderson lacked courage to ask the fellow to come along, but stumbled out into a snow-filled areaway lighted by a swinging incandescent which danced to the swirling eddies. Compartment! He ...
( Category: Action & Adventure Fiction May 23,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-17 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

[Family Continuations to VOLUME THE THIRD] [Continuation of Evelyn, by James Edward Austen]* On his return home, he rang the housebell, but no one appeared, a second time he rang, ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 17,2021 )
epub |eng | 1993-05-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER SIX “I DON’T BELIEVE IT, I can’t believe it!” repeated Razumikhin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov’s arguments. They were by now approaching Bakaleyev’s lodgings, where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 16,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Unknown

Afterwards they sat in the room by the chimney, where servants brought in the best wine without pause, and in the end they agreed that again the next morning they’d ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 16,2021 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyoder

“God was watching over me then,” Mitya used to say afterwards: just at that time, the sick Grigory Vasilievich woke up on his bed. Towards evening of that day he ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 14,2021 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-02 | Author:Henry De Vere Stacpoole

Chapter 22 - ALONE The idea of spiritual life must be innate in the heart of man, for all that terrible night, when the children lay huddled together in the ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 14,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-16 | Author:Henry Thomas Riley [Riley, Henry Thomas]

[Footnote 33: The profane Phorbas.--Ver. 414. The temple at Delphi was much nearer and more convenient for Ceyx to resort to; but at that period it was in the hands ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction May 8,2021 )
epub |eng | 1927-01-01 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

VI THE ROBINSON AFFAIR ___________ Just then someone tapped him on the shoulder. Thinking that it must of course be a guest, Karl quickly put the apple in his pocket ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction April 25,2021 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor [Fyodor Dostoevsky]

Part Four I “CAN THIS BE a continuation of my dream?” came once again to Raskolnikov’s mind. Cautiously and mistrustfully he stared at his unexpected visitor. “Svidrigailov? What nonsense! It ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction April 22,2021 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

III I FOUND TWO MORE of my schoolfellows with him. They were apparently discussing an important matter. None of them paid more than the slightest attention to my coming, which ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction April 22,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Volume II The Lives of the Noble Grecians;Romans [The Lives of the Noble Grecians;Romans, Volume II]

TIBERIUS GRACCHUS HAVlNG completed the first two narratives, we now may proceed to take a view of misfortunes, not less remarkable, in the Roman couple, and with the lives of ...
( Category: Specific Group Biographies April 22,2021 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Path to a Nest of Spiders

* * * here to warn them, and everything’s gone all right. But I twisted my ankle, the one that was so swollen when I fell that time, and now ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction April 17,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P.G.]

17 * * * I SAT UP rubbing the occiput, and a squeaky voice spoke in my earhole. Eyeing me solicitously, or else gloating over his handiwork, I couldn’t tell ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction April 12,2021 )