Classics
epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

“That’s done, Timothy, and I’m real thankful,” she said. “I guess there’ll be no need of saying anything more. Mr. Marshall is a fine young man, only a little thoughtless. ...
( Category: British & Irish January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XL. Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The next picture in my mind is Government House, on Malabar Point, with the ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * THE MOVING FINGER The news of Mrs. Grancy's death came to me with the shock of an immense blunder--one of fate's most irretrievable acts of vandalism. It ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * BOOK III. THE CHOICE. The Vision touched him on the lips and said: Hereafter thou shalt eat me in thy bread, Drink me in all thy kisses, ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

Come back to the life you gave With all its pleasures to the grave. Oh, Aunt Laura, when I composed those lines the flash came to me. And ginger cookies ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * II * * * WHEN, punctually at ten minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

"Sure thing," he nodded. "And Ahuna fell for it. First he tried to locate the hiding-place of the bait of his hair. Failing that, he hired a pahiuhiu sorcerer to ...
( Category: Crime January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

GRIT OF WOMEN A wolfish head, wistful-eyed and frost-rimed, thrust aside the tent-flaps. “Hi! Chook! Siwash! Chook, you limb of Satan!” chorused the protesting inmates. Bettles rapped the dog sharply ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

VII. Aunt Olivia’s Beau Aunt Olivia told Peggy and me about him on the afternoon we went over to help her gather her late roses for pot-pourri. We found her ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

The Oxonian offered at once to have his fortune told, and the girl began with the usual volubility of her race; but he drew her on one side near the ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE MARRIAGE OF LIT-LIT When John Fox came into a country where whisky freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year, he ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2000-11-30 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XXXI The more I see of Miss West the more she pleases me. Explain it in terms of propinquity, or isolation, or whatever you will; I, at least, do ...
( Category: Crime January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

THE POETIC PRINCIPLE IN speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we ...
( Category: Horror January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

“There are a dozen different stories on the go,” was the reply. “As far as George could make out, Peter Baxter has been speculating with other folks’ money, and this ...
( Category: Horses January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI THE SAADIAN TOMBS On one of the last days of our stay in Marrakech we were told, almost mysteriously, that permission was to be given us ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )