Classics
epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Tacitus [Tacitus]

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:E.F. Benson [Benson, E.F.]

* * * Miss Mapp by this fifth day of Lucia's illness was completely baffled. She did not yet allow herself to despair of becoming unbaffled, for she was certain ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-19 | Author:E. F Benson [Benson, E. F]

Miss Mapp had been tempted when she went home that morning, after enjoying the autumn tints, to ask Diva to lunch with her, but remembered in time that she had ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:E. F Benson [Benson, E. F]

CHAPTER VI Lucia's guests went off by the early train next morning and she was left, like Marius among the ruins of Carthage. But, unlike that weak-hearted senator, she had ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:E. F Benson [Benson, E. F]

Chapter NINE The fish for which Mrs Weston sent to Brinton every week since she did not like the look of the successor to Tommy Luton's mother lay disregarded on ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:E. F Benson [Benson, E. F]

CHAPTER VII For the next few days Lucia was never once seen in the streets of Tilling, for all day she supervised the excavations in her garden. To the great ...
( Category: Humor & Satire April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Guy de Maupassant

Then, during the summer of 1883, Captain Hector de Fontenne took part in the grand maneuvers of the thirty-second regiment of the army. One evening, as they camped on the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 1934-01-02 | Author:Denis Diderot & David Coward [Diderot, Denis & Coward, David]

Marquis. We shall see. Mme de La Pommeraye. Marquis, I know you. I also know them. It's all quite obvious. The Marquis went two months without calling on Madame de ...
( Category: Contemporary April 28,2018 )
epub |por | 2017-11-21 | Author:Liev Tolstói [Tolstói, Liev]

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( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Turgenev, Ivan

1 See note on p. 12. 1 In French in the original. XVIII ON the following day when Odintsova came down to breakfast Bazarov sat for a long time bent ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Virginia Woolf

The sun had risen to its full height. It was no longer half seen and guessed at, from hints and gleams, as if a girl couched on her green-sea mattress ...
( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Woolf, Virginia

( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-12 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

62. The Dart. A word concerning an incident in the last chapter. According to the invariable usage of the fishery, the whale-boat pushes off from the ship, with the headsman ...
( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-12 | Author:Woolf, Virginia

‘There’s not much to be said for this sort of thing, is there?’ said Timothy Durrant to Jacob. ‘Women like it.’ ‘Like what?’ said Charlotte Wilding, coming up to them. ...
( Category: Classics April 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Bryan Karetnyk

( Category: World Literature April 27,2018 )