Classics
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

STORY OF THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK Mr. Silas Q. Scuddamore was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his credit as ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Plato [Plato]

By all means, he said, tell us about the child, and you shall remain in our debt for the account of the parent. I do indeed wish, I replied, that ...
( Category: Philosophy March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [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 March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Anne Bronte [Bronte, 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 March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Edith Nesbit [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: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

14 A Young Rajah The moor was hidden in mist when the morning came, and the rain had not stopped pouring down. There could be no going out of doors. ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Hans Christian Andersen [Andersen, Hans Christian]

1. Forested area in central Jutland (the peninsular continental portion of Denmark); between 1850 and 1880 nearly 200 barges were in service on the Guden River between Randers and Silkeborg. ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

He was pretty certain as he slipped out quietly into the street that he should find it shut and locked, for he knew the door well, and had so rarely ...
( Category: Holidays & Celebrations March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Herodotus [Herodotus]

BOOK V THE IONIANS REVOLT, THE ATHENIANS ASSIST 1. IN THE MEANTIME THE Persians who had been left behind in Europe by Dareios, of whom Megabazos171 was the commander, had ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Edith Wharton [Wharton, Edith]

20 “OF COURSE WE MUST dine with Mrs. Carfry, dearest,” Archer said; and his wife looked at him with an anxious frown across the monumental Britannia ware of their lodging-house ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Joshua Slocum [Slocum, Joshua]

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 6,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

CHAPTER 34 THE DINING-ROOM WAS VERY small. Edna’s round mahogany would have almost filled it. As it was there was but a step or two from the little table to ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

One day early in July Anthony, returned from an afternoon in New York, called up-stairs to Gloria. Receiving no answer he guessed she was asleep and so went into the ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )