Classics
epub |eng | 1966-01-02 | Author:Andre Gide [Gide, Andre]

Without doubt he felt himself blushing, for he put his hand in front of his forehead as if he were blocking the glare of a lamp. But he quickly recomposed ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-31 | Author:Homer & Pope, Alexander & Alexander Pope [Homer]

"Meantime the goddess our return survey'd From the pale ghosts and hell's tremendous shade. Swift she descends: a train of nymphs divine Bear the rich viands and the generous wine: ...
( Category: Poetry September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Daphne du Maurier & Julie Myerson

For Celia it would be any spring, or any summer. Whatever the season, the routine would be the same. Early tea, at half-past eight. She made it herself, on a ...
( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1925-09-04 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, ...
( Category: Classics September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-14 | Author:Tillie Olsen [Olsen, Tillie]

She wanted, moreover, to pay tribute to, to memorialize, the women she knew on the Left: women like her YCL comrades and especially immigrant women like her own motherstrong women, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

Chapter 36 The Bath. At Vulaines, beneath the impenetrable shade of flowering osiers and willows, which, as they bent down their green heads, dipped the extremities of their branches in ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

The Silmarillion Chapter 20 Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad It is said that Beren and L?thien returned to the northern lands of Middle-earth, and dwelt together for a time ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

They turned their backs on the doors of Orthanc, and went down. The riders hailed the king with joy, and saluted Gandalf. The spell of Saruman was broken: they had ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-11-30 | Author:J. P. Donleavy [Donleavy, J. P.]

17 My eyes are glued together. Feet blistered. What have I done? At least I'm not in jail. Lay a bit to get the latitude and longitude. I'll never do ...
( Category: Literary September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-12 | Author:J. K. Rowling [Rowling, J. K.]

Chapter 22 The Unexpected Task “Potter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?” Professor McGonagall’s irritated voice cracked like a whip through the Transfiguration class on Thursday, and Harry and Ron both ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 1961-10-14 | Author:J D. Salinger [Salinger, J D.]

THE Glasses' living room was about as unready to have its walls repainted as a room can be. Franny Glass lay asleep on the couch, with an afghan over her; ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

Frodo dozed, though the pain of his wound was slowly growing, and a deadly chill was spreading from his shoulder to his arm and side. His friends watched over him, ...
( Category: Epic September 4,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:J. D. Salinger

The door banged open, without having been rapped on. X raised his head, turned it, and saw Corporal Z standing in the door. Corporal Z had been X's jeep partner ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

So the glad days passed; and on the eighth day of May the Riders of Rohan made ready, and rode off by the North-way, and with them went the sons ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-15 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

That was one of his most miserable moments. But he soon made up his mind that it was no good trying to do anything till day came with some little ...
( Category: Fantasy September 4,2017 )