Classics
epub |eng | 1886-02-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-07 | Author:Taylor, Elizabeth [Taylor, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER TEN FULL summer; and Mrs Arbuthnot left the Claremont. It was going downhill, she said. Trippery people coming at random. It was not the place she had once known. ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1968-01-04 | Author:Taylor, Elizabeth [Taylor, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER NINE David and Nell went on their Sunday afternoon walk in the damp countryside, down lanes between holly bushes choked with dead beech-leaves, under the singing, hissing electric pylons, ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXIV. A Rival Magician. MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The ...
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epub |eng | 1908-01-02 | Author:Kubin, Alfred [Kubin, Alfred]

Chapter 5: The Outer Settlement I Elaborate, jagged gables, thatched roofs! It was a little village I was entering. Low wooden cottages of fanciful shape, tiny domed buildings, cylindrical tents. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Manning, Olivia [Manning, Olivia]

17 Next morning the gaiety was gone and only a few peasants wandered about the square. Bella, as she had promised, rang Harriet and described how the previous night the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

II. WHEN, PUNCTUALLY AT TEN minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself anew to the difficult process of ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1929-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

8 A LITTLE AFTER midnight it began to rain, a dull steady dripping rain which never ceased. The sun rose, but not into sight. Grey banked clouds slowly appeared, and ...
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epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIII THE GENERAL STRIKE Of course Ernest was elected to Congress in the great socialist landslide that took place in the fall of 1912. One great factor that helped ...
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epub |eng | 0101-02-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
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epub |eng | 1943-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE GENERAL WAS UNEASY and the more because for many days he had not been able to ask the Chairman for advice. The small radio set he had brought ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-14 | Author:Huxley, Aldous [Huxley, Aldous]

“But the lineaments of gratified desire are also the lineaments of desirability, the lineaments of the promise of future satisfactions. God, how frantically I desired her! And how passionately, from ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-07 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

CHAPTER 2 HAVING sent out invitations by telephone from the airport Doctor Plarr waited for his two guests on the terrace of the Nacional. On a sheet of hotel notepaper ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1907-01-11 | Author:Shaw, George Bernard [Shaw, George Bernard]

LOUIS [ignoring their outcry] She was married to the steward of a liner. He cleared out and left her; and she thought, poor girl, that it was the law that ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1851-01-18 | Author:Melville, Herman [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER LXIV. Stubb’s Supper. Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business ...
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