Classics
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:The Witch & the Priest (epub)

Chapter Fourteen “I wanted to comfort my poor girl, to wipe away the blood; but I dared not. This terrible mating was her punish­ment. The Master had judged; who was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Margaret Craven

PART THREE Che-kwa-la TWELVE The men of the village tore down the vicarage. The old boards were cut and shared with all for firewood. The foundation for the new house ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-08 | Author:The Second Penguin Book of English Short Stories (epub)

Katherine Mansfield FEUILLE D’ALBUM HE really was an impossible person. Too shy altogether. With absolutely nothing to say for himself. And such a weight. Once he was in your studio ...
( Category: English as a Second Language November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-17 | Author:C. F. Keary & James Machin [Keary, C. F. & Keary, Charles Francis & Machin, James]

‘O vos omnes spiritus terreni, invocamus et convocamus vos! Ye spirits of the earth, we call and conjure you! Be ye our aiders and confederates, and fulfil whatever we demand!’ ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-09 | Author:Gerald Kersh [Kersh, Gerald]

THE BEGGARS’ STONE The monotony of the plain becomes so heartbreaking that you would thank God for the sight of a withered tree. The land lies flat. The road forks ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:M. R. James

Recruited by lunch and a brief period of slumber, Mrs. Anstruther settled herself comfortably upon her sketching chair in the path leading through the shrubbery to the side-gate of the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-29 | Author:Phyllis A. Whitney

10 When they reached the house, Leonie hurried upstairs to Deirdre’s room. The door stood open and she beckoned them in. An upheaval had struck the room. Drawers had been ...
( Category: Mystery November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

‘She only wanted me to get the broken cork out of a bottle of syrup of figs,’ said Colin, coming back. ‘No one had the gumption to push it right ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Thirkell, Angela [Thirkell, Angela]

First published in Harper’s Bazaar, January 1937 The Private View It is true that old Sir Dighton Phelps of Phelps’s Galleries knew all about old paintings, and middle-aged Mr Dighton ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Lawrence M. Schoen [Schoen, Lawrence]

END About the Author Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a focus in psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor, and has done extensive ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

CHAPTER 6 THE whole of England now settled down to grumble, and indeed had everything to grumble about and would have felt very peculiar if they hadn’t. May melted into ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

‘Well, I am sorry, mum,’ said Cook, who had never seen Miss Brandon and only heard of her as a paragon of bad temper. ‘The poor old lady. That’s what ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-17 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

While Packer was mastering the details of L.-Cpl. Hackett, L., 43537201, coming back from Burma after three years to find his wife with twins of two and an idiot baby ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-22 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

9 Lady Emily Pays a Call At the end of July, Martin came home for the holidays. He had been growing in every direction during the summer term and was ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-13 | Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]

Chapter VIII Wilfred Finds His Feet The hockey match was like all other Boxing Day hockey matches. The butler’s daughter had been approached by Anna, and after saying that she ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )