Classics
epub |eng | 1978-01-09 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

‘Have you any idea what “c” stands for?’ Percival asked – and again there was that note of hope which Castle found irritating. ‘It could mean, couldn’t it, “code”, to ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-03 | Author:Gregory, Stephen [Gregory, Stephen]

* There dawned one of those crisp December mornings in the mountains, when the air is full of the scent of the fir trees, so cold that it scalds the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-05-24 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

THEY SET OUT across the broad creosote flats of the valley in the darkness before dawn on Tuesday. Archer had a set of six dogboxes that fitted atop the bed ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-23 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

20 AND THUS IT MIGHT have gone forever until all the silver was spent had not that one, Wang Lung’s uncle, returned suddenly without explanation of where he had been ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1891-02-01 | Author:Hardy, Thomas [Hardy, Thomas]

XXXIII ANGEL FELT THAT HE would like to spend a day with her before the wedding, somewhere away from the dairy; as a last jaunt in her company while they ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert]

The weather was growing ever warmer and the earth more resplendent, it was covered with a thick, blossoming carpet of meadows, the fields and pastures were steaming, the forests offered ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-15 | Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

XVII Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip THIS FIFTH TRIP WAS quite different from any of the others. In the first place, the little gallipotad of a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1855-01-15 | Author:Whitman, Walt [Whitman, Walt]

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: Poetry November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1941-01-01 | Author:Cronin, A. J. [Cronin, A. J.]

IV Eighteen months later, in the month of May, when all Chek-kow province lay basking in that span of short perfection between the winter snows and the swelterings of summer, ...
( Category: Relationships November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-10 | Author:Chambers, Robert William [Chambers, Robert William]

Chapter 10 AT THE RITZ When Victor Cleves telegraphed from St. Augustine to Washington that he and his wife were on their way North, and that they desired to see ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-06 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

16 November and December passed very swiftly, or so it seemed to me. Usually, as the days shortened and the weather worsened, when there would be little to do outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1859-01-01 | Author:Darwin, Charles [Darwin, Charles]

Causes of the Sterility of first Crosses and of Hybrids.—We may now look a little closer at the probable causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids. These ...
( Category: Evolution November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1961-06-03 | Author:Heinlein, Robert A. [Heinlein, Robert A.]

Part Three HIS ECCENTRIC EDUCATION XXII. IN ONE LIMB OF A SPIRAL GALAXY, close to a star known as “Sol” to some, another star became nova. Its glory would be ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-05 | Author:Durrell, Lawrence [Durrell, Lawrence]

Berlin was also in the grip of snow, but here the sullen goaded helplessness of the Russias was replaced by a malignant euphoria hardly less dispiriting. The air was tonic ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-07 | Author:Golding, William [William Golding]

Chapter X Two changes later—the young man had been all against my driving a car for a bit—I was on a Greek island that in those days had remote places ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )