Classics
epub |eng | 2005-09-01 | Author:Elinor Glyn [Glyn, Elinor]

CHAPTER XV It was a beautiful apartment that Dmitry had found for them on the Grand Canal in Venice, in an old palace looking southwest. A convenient door in a ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-27 | Author:Daniel Defoe [Defoe, Daniel]

This, however, shows us with what faint excuses and with what trifles we pretend to satisfy ourselves, and suppress the attempts of conscience, in the pursuit of agreeable crime, and ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

AUGUST 4. I am not alone unfortunate. All men are disappointed in their hopes, and deceived in their expectations. I have paid a visit to my good old woman under ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-04 | Author:Gabriele D'Annunzio [D'Annunzio, Gabriele]

"And forget me, for I can never— Be thine!" 'October 9th.—Night. All day long he has sought an opportunity for speaking to me. His distress is evident. And all day ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-04 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

MEPHISTOPHELES What time takes she for dissipating? THE ANIMALS While we to warm our paws are waiting. MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST) How findest thou the tender creatures? FAUST Absurder than I ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-01 | Author:James Branch Cabell [Cabell, James Branch]

"I am ashamed of my fellows," says he: "for it appears their notion of felicity is to dwell eternally in a glorified brothel. I do not think that as a ...
( Category: Fantasy August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-18 | Author:Alec Waugh [Waugh, Alec]

* * * For the rest of the term life flowed easily with Gordon. There were no further rows with "the Bull"; in fact their row seemed, for a time ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:George Moore [Moore, George (George Augustus)]

'It's damned hard, but you can't expect the man to take her out of her linen-drapery for nothing.' The old stage-door keeper, whose attention had been concentrated on what he ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-03 | Author:Giovanni Boccaccio [Boccaccio, Giovanni]

The lady gave entire credence to the scholar's words, and deeming her lover as good as in her arms again, recovered half her wonted spirits: wherefore:—"Make no doubt," quoth she, ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Theodore Dreiser [Dreiser, Theodore]

( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Hans Fallada

§ VII So he went back into the house. But he wasn’t yet so dishonest as to persuade himself that he did so to bring his brother news of Sophie. ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mike Blakely

35 While Horseback learned from Raccoon-Eyes and Speaks Twice, the others—Shaggy Hump, Whip, and Echo—hunted in the mountains for deer, elk, bear, and lesser game. The hunting was hard near ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joan G. Robinson [Robinson, Joan G.]

Just then a big black dog came running down the beach and began barking loudly at Teddy Robinson. “Woof! Woof! What are you doing?” he barked. “I’m a pirate on ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Paul Gallico [Gallico, Paul]

The Small Miracle With drawings by Edgar Norfield The beautiful setting of Assisi is clearly essential for the purposes of this story. But the characters exist only in the imagination ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Georges Simenon

The note was indeed in her large, pointed handwriting, but it wasn’t her style. Maigret gave a wry grimace and put the letter and the cheque in his pocket, convinced ...
( Category: Mystery August 23,2017 )