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The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
epub |eng | 2007-08-23 | Author:Ann Radcliffe

CHAPTER XII ‘Then, oh, you blessed ministers above, Keep me in patience; and, in ripen’d time, Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up In countenance.’ SHAKESPEARE[Measure for Measure]1 Annette ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
House of All Nations by Christina Stead
epub |eng | 2013-08-23 | Author:Christina Stead

Scene Fifty-three: The Wheat Scheme Léon sprang into the bank in the morning, fresh, succulent, and fat, brimming over with intention. He said, ‘Good morning’ from his vortex to Jacques ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
epub |eng | | Author:Christina Stead

—and after that— “For she’s a jolly good fellow, And so say all of us.” Stupefied, unable to be moved by the touching affection of her relatives, when they cried ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 23,2017 )
Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Georges Simenon

It was the American’s idea to order two old Armagnacs in snifters. He was also the first to light his pipe. ‘What are you thinking about?’ he asked, as Maigret ...
( Category: Murder August 23,2017 )
79.01 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
mobi |eng | 1998-03-01 | Author:Ray Bradbury

31 Nothing much else happened, all the rest of that night. 32 At dawn, a juggernaut of thunder wheeled over the stony heavens in a spark-throwing tumult. Rain fell softly ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
28.01 Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi |eng | 1963-10-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

66 THE STRONGEST THING THERE IS HE WASN’T DEAD. But he certainly looked dead; except that now and then, in the midst of all that seeming death, he would give ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
19.01 Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi |eng | 1969-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Billy traveled in time back to the veterans’ hospital again. The blanket was over his head. It was quiet outside the blanket. “Is my mother gone?” said Billy. “Yes.” Billy ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
45.01 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. le Guin
mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Ursula K. le Guin

Odeps Susmy. The transmitting device Genly Ai has now turned over to the Thirty-Three, in Obsle's care, is not going to change any minds. No doubt it does what he ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
17.01 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
mobi |eng | 1987-04-30 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein

PART THREE: His Eccentric Education XXII IN ONE LIMB OF A SPIRAL GALAXY, close to a star known as "Sol" to some of its dependents, another star of the same ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
08.03 Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
mobi |eng | 2009-04-24 | Author:Isaac Asimov

10 APPROACHING CRISIS A week had passed on the Second Foundation, and the First Speaker was smiling once again upon the Student. “You must have brought me interesting results, or ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
08.02 Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
mobi |eng | 2009-04-23 | Author:Isaac Asimov

15 THE PSYCHOLOGIST There was reason to the fact that the element known as “pure science” was the freest form of life on the Foundation. In a Galaxy where the ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
55.01 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
mobi |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Peter S. Beagle

"No, it never thinks that," the magician agreed. "That's why it goes on being a rhinoceros and will never be welcome even at Haggard's court. But a young girl, a ...
( Category: Graphic Novels August 23,2017 )
38.01 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
mobi |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Jules Verne

Chapter III A Pearl of Ten Millions THE NEXT MORNING AT four o’clock I was awakened by the steward, whom Captain Nemo had placed at my service. I rose hurriedly, ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
39.01 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
mobi |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:H. G. Wells

Chapter 17 The “Thunder Child” HAD THE MARTIANS AIMED only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
24.01 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
mobi |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

PART FOUR ABYSS Chapter 21 Birthday Party The familiar strains of “Happy Birthday,” hurled across seven hundred million miles of space at the velocity of light, died away among the ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )

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