Classics
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

The young man hastily unlocked his closet and took out his shoes and hat. As he sat on the side of the cot lacing his shoes, he glanced about and ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-31 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

CHAPTER XI. And here I will digress a moment to make a single remark on a subject of which popular feeling, in America, under the influence of popular habits, is ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

"I have no thirst at all," answered Rose, sweetly, "and have already taken more water than was good for me, with so little food on my stomach." "Eat another morsel ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-21 | Author:Mayne Reid [Reid, Mayne]

* * * Chapter Forty Two. Bearding a Brigand. In addition to the consequences that would arise from his resolve—already foreseen by Don Rafael Tres-Villas—there was one other of which ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:George MacDonald [MacDonald, George]

Mrs. Blatherwick understood, and said no more. She showed her what she might set about; and Isy, happy as a child, came and went at her commands, rejoicing. Probably, had ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI * * * On the way home, in the first drop of his exaltation, Durham had said to himself: "But why on earth should Bessy invite ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-30 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

CHAPTER XVI. " GOOD God!" said Coleman. "You don't Mean-" Nora smiled rosily at him. " Oh, I'm all right," she answered. " Don't worry about your Aunt Nora, my ...
( Category: War January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

CHAPTER XIX. A DREAD PROPHECY “I’ve got to go and begin stumping out the elderberry pasture this afternoon,” said Peter dolefully. “I tell you it’s a tough job. Mr. Roger ...
( Category: British & Irish January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-09-30 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE DREAM OF DEBS I awoke fully an hour before my customary time. This in itself was remarkable, and I lay very wide awake, pondering over it. Something was the ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-26 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

IV But Emily sat long at her window looking into the black night that turned slowly to pale silver as the moon rose. So the girls had “chased” Teddy. She ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

ALL GOLD CANYON It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XIV. So Tracy went home to supper. The odors in that supper room seemed more strenuous and more horrible than ever before, and he was happy in the thought ...
( Category: Satire January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery [Montgomery, Lucy Maud]

CHAPTER XVII. AUNT OLIVIA’S WEDDING What a delightful, old-fashioned, wholesome excitement there was about Aunt Olivia’s wedding! The Monday and Tuesday preceding it we did not go to school at ...
( Category: Family Saga January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

The asseveration of the marine was interrupted by Griffith, whose blood had sensibly cooled, and whose generous feelings were awakened in behalf of his comrades, now that his own fate ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * II The Carstyles belonged to the all-the-year-round Millbrook of paper-mills, cable-cars, brick pavements and church sociables, while Mrs. Vance, the aunt with whom Vibart lived, was an ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2016 )