Classics
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Nicholas Frankel

However, there are good reasons for questioning the veracity of Wilde’s account. Relations with Ross had been tense at best where Douglas was concerned. More to the point, having separated ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Siciliano

Chapter Eight The following morning, I rose from the sofa to meet Monsieur l’Abbé Docre. He was three or four inches shorter than me, very slight and slender, and I ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:Natsume Soseki [Soseki, Natsume]

When I read it over, I realize it is in fact a string of images that could easily become a picture. I might as well have made it a picture ...
( Category: Contemporary August 9,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Natsume Soseki [Soseki, Natsume]

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...
( Category: Literary August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H.P.]

He (Published September 1926 in Weird Tales) I saw him on a sleepless night when I was walking desperately to save my soul and my vision. My coming to New ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Frederick Baron Corvo [Corvo, Frederick Baron]

"a lightning-flash of his sweet beauty! "flames from his eyes he darteth! "Hath Love revealed a Child who fighteth with thunderbolts? "the splendour of twin fires did scorch me through ...
( Category: Literary August 9,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-25 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

Section 2.—Pride. The folly of our nature which we are discussing puts forth three shoots, ambition, vanity and pride. The difference between the last two is this: pride is an ...
( Category: Philosophy August 9,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien

Ents the earthborn, old as mountains, the wide-walkers, water drinking; and hungry as hunters, the Hobbit children, the laughing-folk, the little people, they shall remain friends as long as leaves ...
( Category: Fantasy August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:Carson Mccullers [McCullers, Carson]

Carson McCullers - Reflections In A Golden Eye CHAPTER 4 It is not easy on an army post for an officer to bring himself into personal contact with an enlisted ...
( Category: Classics August 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

1 It is remarkable how the same disease is modified in different climates. At the little island of St. Helena, the introduction of scarlet-fever is dreaded as a plague. In ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1859-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin

Summary of Chapter. If during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organisation, and I ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 1968-08-07 | Author:Charles Darwin

CHAPTER VIII HYBRIDISM Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids – Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication – Laws governing ...
( Category: Evolution August 8,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

53. Let us now look at the main point: for which one of them was the actual spot where they came to blows more convenient? Jurors, is that something that ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

So I went on. ‘In gaiety and wit,’ I continued, ‘Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus, son of Lucius, outdid all his contemporaries and his predecessors as well.3 His oratory was ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 8,2018 )