Classics
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

***** The next morning brought a great many visitors. It was the way of the place always to call on Mrs. Edwards the morning after a ball, and this neighbourly ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory November 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2006-08-01 | Author:Freeman Wills Croft [Croft, Freeman Wills]

PART TWO. THE PROFESSIONALS CHAPTER 12. MURDER! ALMOST EXACTLY FIFTEEN HOURS before Merriman’s call at Scotland Yard, to wit, about eight o’clock on the previous evening, Inspector Willis of the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-04-01 | Author:Lord Dunsany

THE RETURN OF SONG "The swans are singing again," said to one another the gods. And looking downwards, for my dreams had taken me to some fair and far Valhalla, ...
( Category: Historical October 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:Lord Dunsany

THE IDLE CITY There was once a city which was an idle city, wherein men told vain tales. And it was that city's custom to tax all men that would ...
( Category: British & Irish October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Chapter Thirteen In the Beyt of Zeyd IBN JAD waited three days in his menzil but no Galla guides arrived to lead him into the valley as Batando had promised, ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-27 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Chapter 8 - On Board The Sofal HOVERING just above us, I saw what at first appeared to be five enormous birds; but which I soon recognized, despite my incredulity, ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1921-01-01 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

13 The Masquerader As Tarzan dropped to the ground beyond the temple wall there was in his mind no intention to escape from the City of A-lur until he had ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Edgar Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar]

* * * Chapter 13 THE PRINCESS MARIA'S FATHER WAS ONE OF THE RICHEST MONARCHS in Europe, in his own right. His kingdom was prosperous, too; but his people were ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-10 | Author:Robert William Chambers [Chambers, Robert William]

Chapter 10 AT THE RITZ When Victor Cleves telegraphed from St. Augustine to Washington that he and his wife were on their way North, and that they desired to see ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Gullivers Travels

PART III. 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 ...
( Category: Satire October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1905-12-31 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

A British-Roman Song (A.D. 406) My father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so-holy spot— The very Rome— Crowned by all Time, ...
( Category: British & Irish October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

‘What did it mean?’ said Dan. ‘Mean!’ Pharaoh cried. ‘Why it’s what you—what we—it’s the Sachems’ way of sprinkling the sacred corn-meal in front of—oh! it’s a piece of Indian ...
( Category: Linguistics October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:William Richard Bradshaw [Bradshaw, William Richard]

Could it be that the goddess might possibly, if an occasion worthy of such a step presented itself, fly from Egyplosis, renounce her throne, her crown, her sublime office of ...
( Category: Epic October 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Undine

A few footsteps more, and they were upon open ground. The imperial city lay bright before them, and the evening sun, which gilded its towers, kindly dried the garments of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

CHAPTER XIV. AN ARCTIC SPRING. The prisoners were free, and their joy found vent in the noisiest demonstrations. They employed the rest of the day in repairing the house, which ...
( Category: Mystery October 28,2015 )