Classics
epub |eng | 1994-05-10 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

* Holy Saturday in Matchet; Mr. Crouchback broke his Lenten fast. He had given up, as he always did, wine and tobacco. During the preceding weeks two parcels had come ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 17,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1961-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

Seven At the end of the first week of that December, History records, Mr. Winston Churchill introduced Mr. Roosevelt to the Sphinx. Fortified by the assurances of their military advisers ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 17,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Patrick Hamilton

3 The Lieutenant! A problem she had almost forgotten! ‘And where is the nice big American?’ Vicki had asked her, only a few days ago, and she had answered, quite ...
( Category: Classics August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-17 | Author:Mason, Richard

IV And so it was not that night but the next that we walked together along the water front to the Nam Kok to become lovers. We had been to ...
( Category: Historical August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jenni James [James, Jenni]

CHAPTER ELEVEN JACK HEAVED HIS WEIGHT up the next twisted vine and then leaned down to clutch Jill’s hand and bring her up. “How are you doing?” he asked as ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Zelazny

8 HE TORE OUT the first pages of the print-out and spread them on the table he had appropriated. The unit continued its clicking, drowning out the sounds of the ...
( Category: Classics August 17,2017 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-20 | Author:James Mattew Barrie

But there is also a way of finding out about the ball before it takes place. You know the boards which tell at what time the Gardens are to close ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:W Somerset Maugham [W Somerset Maugham]

15 Julia did not wake till after eleven. Among her letters was one that had not come by post. She recognized Tom's neat, commercial hand and tore it open. It ...
( Category: British & Irish August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-29 | Author:Baldesar Castiglione [Castiglione, Baldesar]

‘This kind of joke is played very often; but more amusing still are jokes that are frightening to begin with but have a happy ending, for then the victim too ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1890-01-01 | Author:Oscar Wilde [Wilde, Oscar]

CHAPTER 7 As he was sitting at breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward was shown into the room. “I am so glad I have found you Dorian,” he said gravely. “I ...
( Category: Classics August 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-03 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

2 No. 6 Transit Camp, London District, was a camp in name only. It had been a large, unfashionable, entirely respectable hotel. The air was one of easy well-being. No ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 17,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1908-01-02 | Author:Fred Gipson [Gipson, Fred]

Mama cooked the best dinner that day I ever ate. We had roast venison and fried catfish and stewed squirrel and blackeyed peas and cornbread and flour gravy and butter ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edna Ferber

12 The best thing for Dirk. The best thing for Dirk. It was the phrase that repeated itself over and over in Selina’s speech during the days that followed. Julie ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [Waugh, Evelyn]

Basil studied the address book with care. “Finding a new home for the Connollies,” he said. “Basil, we must do something to that poor child’s head before we pass her ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Evelyn Waugh [WAUGH, EVELYN]

Eight Constantine’s Great Treat No one had really expected the Empress Dowager to come to the Jubilee. The invitation had been sent as a matter of form. The acceptance caused ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 16,2017 )