Classics
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Isaac Asimov

48. Venabili woke up and could tell by her timeband that the night period was only half over. Not hearing Hari’s snore, she could tell that his cot was empty. ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Dante Alighieri [Alighieri, Dante]

CANTO XXXIII His mouth uplifted from his grim repast, That sinner, wiping it upon the hair Of the same head that he behind had wasted. Then he began: “Thou wilt ...
( Category: Poetry February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

"Diaries," said Bander, "the history of their lives. Scenes of themselves in their favorite parts of the estate. It means they do not die in every sense. Part of them ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

“Who was he?” asked Trevize. “A historical character. I looked him up. He was an honest-to-Galaxy archaeologist back in the early days of the Empire and he maintained that Earth ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 7,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

"Why, you are then co-operative citizens of Kalgan, are you not? I know nothing to the contrary, do I?" Nothing was said. Toran turned to the controls. There was an ...
( Category: Science Fiction February 7,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-09-20 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nancy Stade [Stade, Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nancy]

X The Leech and His Patient Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ...
( Category: Literary February 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 1990-02-06 | Author:Guy De Maupassant

The Patron NEVER in his wildest dreams had he thought that he would ever have done so well for himself! The son of a provincial bailiff, Jean Marin, like so ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-11 | Author:Smollett, Tobias [Smollett, Tobias]

CHAPTER XLI Narcissa being in danger from the brutality of Sir Timothy, is rescued by me, who revenge myself on my rival——declare my passion, and retreat to the sea-side——I am ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-06-12 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

“Again the light cloud passed across the picture, and again the subject changed. The father and mother were old and helpless now, and the number of those about them was ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1993-04-22 | Author:Browning, Elizabeth Barrett [Browning, Elizabeth Barrett]

(I dare say mentally he crunched the bones 660 Of all those writers, wishing them alive To feel his tooth in earnest), turned short round With low carnivorous laugh—‘A flower, ...
( Category: Poetry February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Baudelaire, Charles [Baudelaire, Charles]

91. Les Petites Vieilles A Victor Hugo 1 Dans les plis sinueux des vieilles capitales, Où tout, même l’horreur, tourne aux enchantements, Je guette, obéissant à mes humeurs fatales, Des ...
( Category: Poetry February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-07-10 | Author:Ahl, Frederick & Elaine Fantham [Ahl, Frederick]

BOOK TEN MEANWHILE Olympus, seat of all power in the universe, opens Wide for a meeting* the Father of Gods and Ruler of Mortals Calls to his residence high in ...
( Category: Poetry February 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Tolstoy, Leo & Maude, Louise and Aylmer & Mandelker, Amy [Tolstoy, Leo]

10 THIS letter had not yet been presented to the Emperor when Barclay one day at dinner informed Bolkonsky that the sovereign wished to see him personally, to question him ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-11-21 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

II HE RECEIVED three days after this a communication from America, in the form of a scrap of blue paper folded and gummed, not reaching him through his bankers, but ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Collins, Wilkie & John Sutherland [Collins, Wilkie]

The Story continued by FREDERICK FAIRLIE, ESQ., of Limmeridge House1 IT is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone. Why—I ask everybody—why worry me? Nobody ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 6,2018 )