Classics
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XIV. MR WHITTLESTAFF IS GOING OUT TO DINNER. "There's an invitation come, asking us to dine at Little Alresford to-day." This was said, soon after breakfast, by Mr Whittlestaff ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER II. 'EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS.' But there arose a trouble greater than that occasioned by the 'Broughton Gazette.' There came out an article in a London weekly newspaper, called 'Everybody's Business,' ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

Still the patter of rain upon the window, and no other sound save her own sharp breathing. "Perhaps you do not know who I am!" she continued, endeavouring to assume ...
( Category: Contemporary December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

XXVII Now eve, with western shadows long, 660 Floated on Katrine bright and strong, When Roderick, with a chosen few, Repassed the heights of Benvenue. Above the Goblin-cave they go, ...
( Category: Poetry December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CANTO FOURTH.—THE CAMP. I. Eustace, I said, did blithely mark The first notes of the merry lark. The lark sang shrill, the cock he crew, And loudly Marmion's bugles blew, ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-09 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

"DEAR PRECIOUS KOSTYA, "Here is news for you: I'm in love again! I say again, because six years ago I fell in love with a Moscow actress, though I didn't ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-03-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

"Indeed," replied she, "I have none. You seem to me both brave and honest." "Then," said Francis, "give me a keepsake." She paused for a moment, with her hand upon ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-08-01 | Author:George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith [Grossmith, George]

CHAPTER XIV Begin the year with an unexpected promotion at the office. I make two good jokes. I get an enormous rise in my salary. Lupin speculates successfully and starts ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-01 | Author:Saki [Saki]

THE FEAST OF NEMESIS “It’s a good thing that Saint Valentine’s Day has dropped out of vogue,” said Mrs. Thackenbury; “what with Christmas and New Year and Easter, not to ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Saki [Saki]

THE WAY TO THE DAIRY The Baroness and Clovis sat in a much-frequented corner of the Park exchanging biographical confidences about the long succession of passers-by. "Who are those depressed-looking ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Saki [Saki]

CHAPTER XII: THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS The train bearing Yeovil on his visit to Torywood slid and rattled westward through the hazy dreamland of an English summer landscape. Seen from the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-07-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

345.jpg (145K) My apparatus was simple: a little red paint and a bit of white paper. I painted the ball of the client's thumb, took a print of it on ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

"How?" "Oh, nothing! but if I wasn't afraid of prosing, I might tell another story about an old boot in a pieman's loft, contracting there between sun and oven an ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Thomas De Quincey [De Quincey, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII. Pand. Hark, they ate coming from the field: shall we stand up here, and see them as they pass towards Ilium? Good niece do, sweet niece Cressida. Cress. ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-12-08 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"They are indeed at an end. I am sorry I cannot sell you the property." "What?" cried Mr. Barker, starting to his feet. "Mr. Buck has spoken correctly," said the ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )