Classics
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

She threw her arm over her face and rolled over on her side, away from him, suddenly ashamed. 'What is it?' he repeated. 'How could you be so THOUGHTLESS?' 'What ...
( Category: Classics August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 1929-01-01 | Author:J. B. Priestley [Priestley, J. B.]

IV Wednesday night was better than Monday or Tuesday: there were more people, especially in the cheaper seats, and, perhaps influenced by Miss Thong, who clapped everything, they were a ...
( Category: Classics August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Rebecca Preston & A Lady [Preston, Rebecca]

Chapter 14 Philip Morgan arrived first and was ushered in to the drawing room. He, too, admired all the women, but went straight to Kitty. “You look most beautiful tonight, ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-05 | Author:Alice Everley & A Lady [Everley, Alice]

3 Elizabeth, Overwhelmed “Lydia?” Elizabeth opened the letter, ignoring the broken seal and reading Jane’s graceful handwriting quickly. “She is gone from Brighton!” “Gone? I am confused… how did this ...
( Category: Regency August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:Campbell Davies [Davies, Campbell]

16 Lydia sniffled, appearing completely unlike the fiery girl who had given Wickham a slap that afternoon. She adjusted her pillow under her chin and wiped her eyes with a ...
( Category: Historical August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane

XVII UPON a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two interminable rows of cars, pulled by slipping horses, jangled along a prominent side street. A dozen cabs, with ...
( Category: Classics August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:Plato & Benjamin Jowett [Plato & Jowett, Benjamin]

* * * One more aspect of the Timaeus remains to be considered--the mythological or geographical. Is it not a wonderful thing that a few pages of one of Plato's ...
( Category: Philosophy August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Anne Bront [Bront, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics August 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-01 | Author:Satyajit Ray

11 The next morning, the news of a tragic railway accident in Satragachhi covered most of the front page in every newspaper. As a result, most people read only that ...
( Category: Classics August 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-07 | Author:Franz Kafka

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 18,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-03-25 | Author:Carlson, Sophia [Carlson, Sophia]

Chapter Eight He could marry Elizabeth. He could rebuild her childhood home from the ground up if he desired. Restore its overgrown gardens, buy back the lands around it. Restore ...
( Category: Literary August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Virginia Woolf]

IT IS a commonplace, but we cannot help repeating it, that St Paul’s dominates London. It swells like a great grey bubble from a distance; it looms over us, huge ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

CHAPTER FOUR THAT ONE would find any woman in that state of mind in the sixteenth century was obviously impossible. One has only to think of the Elizabethan tombstones with ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-12 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

Solid Objects The only thing that moved upon the vast semi-circle of the beach was one small black spot. As it came nearer to the ribs and spine of the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-02 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Virginia Woolf]

The Widow and the Parrot: A True Story SOME FIFTY YEARS ago Mrs Gage, an elderly widow, was sitting in her cottage in a village called Spilsby in Yorkshire. Although ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 14,2018 )