Classics
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [Vonnegut, Kurt]

* * * Fred was often asked, of course, whether he was related to the famous Senator Rosewater. Fred’s self-effacing, ignorant reply was along the lines of, “Somewhere, somehow, I ...
( Category: Humor August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

II. AFTER that the House possessed her. As if conscious of its victory, it imposed a conqueror’s claims. It had once been suggested that she should write a life of ...
( Category: Literary August 26,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-30 | Author:Peter S. Beagle

I am a king’s daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to ...
( Category: Graphic Novels August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

28 THE KNIGHT OF MAISON-ROUGE Maurice hurried back to the section to bring a complaint against Simon. It is true that before separating from Maurice Lorin had come up with ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Chandler, Robert [Chandler, Robert]

TEFFI (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya, 1872–1952) Teffi was born in St Petersburg into a distinguished family that treasured literature; she and her three sisters all became writers. Her elder sister was ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Robert Chandler (Editor)

LOVE It was during the wonderful days of my ninth spring – days that were long and saturated with life, full to the brim. Everything during these days was interesting, ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-02 | Author:Robert Heinlein [Heinlein, Robert]

“FRANK!” “Uh? Yes, what is it, Jim?” Frank’s voice was listless. “What do you see ahead?” “Ahead?” Frank tried manfully to make his eyes focus, to chase the fuzz from ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]

XV. Cedar Hill Inn Mickey Linehan used the telephone to wake me a little after noon."We're here," he told me. "Where's the reception committee?" "Probably stopped to get a rope. ...
( Category: Mystery August 26,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-30 | Author:du Maurier, Daphne [Daphne, Du Maurier]

Maxim's car was standing in front of the house. My heart lifted, I ran quickly into the hall. His hat and gloves were lying on the table. I went towards ...
( Category: Classics August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1940-02-15 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

( Category: Science Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-11-01 | Author:C. S. Forester [Forester, C. S.]

"Stand aside! Axemen!" The door was of solid wood and reinforced with iron, but it was only intended to keep out thieving civilians; a sentry was supposed to guard it, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-01 | Author:Marcel Proust & John Sturrock [Proust, Marcel]

From the height we had now reached, the sea suggested no longer, as at Balbec, the undulations of swelling mountains, but on the contrary the view, beheld from a mountain-top ...
( Category: Classics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:W Somerset Maugham [W Somerset Maugham]

X SUSIE stared without comprehension at the note that announced Margaret's marriage. It was a petit bleu sent off from the Gare du Nord, and ran as follows: "When you ...
( Category: Classics August 25,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham; Robert Calder

9 Margaret’s night was disturbed, and next day she was unable to go about her work with her usual tranquillity. She tried to reason herself into a natural explanation of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 25,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1911-12-31 | Author:Henri Alain-Fournier [Alain-Fournier, Henri]

VIII THE GENDARMES! We had to join up with the crowd of men and women making their way back towards the school through the dark streets. Now we understood everything. ...
( Category: World Literature August 25,2017 )