Classics
mobi |eng | 2006-06-08 | Author:Voltaire & Pearson, Roger [Pearson, Roger]

CHAPTER 8 Fealousy ZADIG’S downfall stemmed from his very good fortune, and in particular from his own exceptional qualities. Each day he would call on the King and Astarte, his ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-02-06 | Author:Pliny the Younger

20 To his friend Tacitus ?106–7 I have read your book,* and, as carefully as I could, I have marked the 1 passages which I thought should be changed and ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John & Paul Davis [Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John]

That frights th’enjoyer with succeeding pains: 40 Women and men of wit are dangerous tools, And ever fatal to admiring fools. Pleasure allures, and when the fops escape, ’Tis not ...
( Category: Poetry February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1989-02-09 | Author:Dickens, Charles & Paul Schlicke [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER VI FADING AWAY IT was falling dark when Stephen came out of Mr. Bounderby’s house. The shadows of night had gathered so fast, that he did not look about ...
( Category: Literary February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-16 | Author:Wilkie Collins & 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 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-02-12 | Author:Godwin, William & Pamela Clemit [Godwin, William]

CHAPTER XI FOR my own part I had never seen a prison, and like the majority of my brethren had given myself little concern to enquire what was the condition ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 1988-09-22 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXII THE SEA STILL RISES HAGGARD Saint Antoine had had only one exultant week, in which to soften his modicum of hard and bitter bread to such extent as ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-03-10 | Author:Swift, Jonathan & Claude Rawson & Ian Higgins [Swift, Jonathan]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Author leaves Lagado, arrives at Maldonada. No Ship ready. He takes a Short Voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His Reception by the Governor. THE Continent of which this Kingdom ...
( Category: Literary February 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2008-04-17 | Author:Dumas, Alexandre & Coward, David [Dumas, Alexandre]

55 A TALK ABOUT STOCKS SOME days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs Elysées, which had already assumed ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Lewis, Wyndham & Scott W. Klein [Lewis, Wyndham]

CHAPTER 7 PEOPLE appear with a startling suddenness sometimes out of the fog of Time and Space: so Kreisler appeared—such an apparition! Bertha did not visualize her countryman very readily: ...
( Category: World Literature February 6,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-02-24 | Author:Hardy, Thomas & Simon Gatrell & Juliet Grindle & Penny Boumelha [Hardy, Thomas]

XXXII THIS penitential mood kept her from naming the wedding-day. The beginning of November found its date still in abeyance, though he asked her at the most tempting times. But ...
( Category: Classics February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von & David Constantine [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

21 August Vainly in the mornings out of heavy dreams coming dimly into consciousness I reach for her; and at nights, deluded by the innocent happy dream that I sat ...
( Category: Literary February 6,2018 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Gaston Leroux & David Coward

CHAPTER 14 A Masterstroke from the King of Traps RAOUL and Christine ran for their lives, fleeing the roof where there were burning eyes which could be seen only in ...
( Category: Fantasy February 6,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-04 | Author:Joyce, James & Johnson, Jeri [Joyce, James]

The transept of the Jesuit Church in Gardiner Street was almost full; and still at every moment gentlemen entered from the side-door and, directed by the lay-brother, walked on tiptoe ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Godwin, William [Godwin, William]

CHAPTER XI MORAL EFFECTS OF ARISTOCRACY Importance of practical justice.—Species of injustice which aristocracy creates.—Estimate of the injury produced.—Examples. THERE is one thing, more than all the rest, of importance ...
( Category: Politics & Government February 6,2018 )