Classics
epub |eng | 1848-01-01 | Author:Thackeray, William Makepeace [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

Suppose some twelve months after the above conversation took place to have passed in the life of our poor Amelia. She has spent the first portion of that time in ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-01 | Author:Asimov, Isaac / Silverberg, Robert [Asimov, Isaac / Silverberg, Robert]

[25] The tiny bit of encroaching blackness was perhaps the width of a fingernail, but to the staring watchers it magnified itself into the crack of doom. For Theremon the ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1953-12-13 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

11. ESCAPE ALONG THE STRIPS Baley’s grip tightened convulsively on his fork. “Are you sure?” he asked automatically, and as he said it, he realized the uselessness of the question. ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1894-01-01 | Author:Kipling, Rudyard [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1883-02-01 | Author:Pyle, Howard [Pyle, Howard]

Quoth Robin, “I understand not why those of thy kind live in such a manner that all their wealth passeth from them like snow beneath the springtide sun.” “Thou wrongest ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1902-01-01 | Author:Nesbit, Edith [Nesbit, Edith]

The three stood breathless, awaiting the result “But—” said Jimmy. “Why,” she said, opening her eyes very wide, you must have known about my being here, or you’d never have ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-07-15 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

IV Babbitt promised to become a recognized orator. He entertained a Smoker of the Men’s Club of the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dialect stories. But ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1952-01-17 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

13 Richard began it. “Why do you like her so much?” It was an evening on which she had broken a date with Richard on the slim chance Carol would ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1840-01-01 | Author:Dana, Richard Henry [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-15 | Author:Wells, H. G. [Wells, H. G.]

BOOK III THE WORLD RENASCENCE: THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN STATE §1 THE PLAN OF THE MODERN STATE IS WORKED OUT In the preceding chapters the culmination, the dislocation and ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Blatty, William Peter [Blatty, William Peter]

III: The Abyss They said, "What sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" —John 6: 30-31 ... A [Vietnam] brigade commander once ran a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

3 I ‘I’VE BROUGHT YOU some stamps,’ Scobie said. ‘I’ve been collecting them for a week—from everybody. Even Mrs Carter has contributed a magnificent parakeet—look at it—from somewhere in South ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Dreiser, Theodore [Dreiser, Theodore]

CHAPTER XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH FOR A STAR IT WAS WHEN HE returned from his disturbed stroll about the streets, after receiving the decisive note from McGregor, ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

PART III 8 (1) I DECIDED TO follow the Captain’s advice to Liza and I bought my ticket to Panama via Amsterdam. It would have been much easier and quicker ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:De Quincey, Thomas [De Quincey, Thomas]

( Category: Arts & Literature November 11,2018 )