Classics
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter III A Conference and the Consequence Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-12-21 | Author:Orczy, Emmuska [Orczy, Emmuska]

V Martin–Roget rose from his seat and began pacing up and down the narrow room. His nerves were obviously on edge. It was difficult for any man—let alone one of ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

Summer Weather IN a certain year the prices of sheep at Gledsmuir sank so low that the hearts of the farmers were troubled; and one—he of Clachlands—sought at once to ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Stephens, James [Stephens, James]

XIX The name of the woman from next door was Mrs. Cafferty. She was big and round, and when she walked her dress whirled about her like a tempest. She ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:John Buchan

CHAPTER XVII The Brink of the Rubicon The next evening Wratislaw drove in a hired dogcart up Glenavelin from Gledsmuir just as a stormy autumn twilight was setting in over ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-25 | Author:James Stephens

Chapter V Friday This morning there are no newspapers, no bread, no milk, no news. The sun is shining, and the streets are lively but discreet. All people continue to ...
( Category: Great Britain January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

Chapter XXI 'On thy cold grey stones, O sea!' Stephen had said that he should come by way of Bristol, and thence by a steamer to Castle Boterel, in order ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Herbert,Frank

Dama inhaled deeply of the fresh air. It was going to be a good day precisely because that was what she desired. She gathered in her secret memories then and ...
( Category: Adventure January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

V Father Hector Saint–Cyr was not long in following his messenger. On the day of his arrival in Kebec he stopped at the apothecary shop, but, Auclair being out, he ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:John Buchan

CHAPTER V I Claim a Promise, and We Seek the Hills And now I set myself resolutely to think out something that might be the saving of my life and ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-30 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

Chapter X After we had had out our laugh, Lop–Ear and I curved back in our flight and got breakfast in the blueberry swamp. It was the same swamp to ...
( Category: Adventure January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Percy Fitzpatrick

* * * Chapter Sixteen. The Tiger and Baboons. No one had doubted Jess’s courage, even when we saw her come back alone: we knew there was something wrong, but ...
( Category: General January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

Bunches of Knuckles ARRANGEMENTS quite extensive had been made for the celebration of Christmas on the yacht Samoset. Not having been in any civilized port for months, the stock of ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Herbert,Frank

which to snare not only the Bene Tleilax but the Sisterhood as well. Odrade smelled the biting odors of chemicals that had been used to kill wild growth in the ...
( Category: Adventure January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-02-01 | Author:Jonathan Swift

CHAPTER II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their learning. Of the king and his court. The author’s reception there. The inhabitants subject to fear ...
( Category: Satire January 8,2016 )