Classics
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-31 | Author:H. G. Wells

XX. THE STAR. It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of the planet Neptune, ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Rex Stout

Chapter XIV A Fishing Party. Water, when whirling rapidly, has a keen distaste for any foreign object; but when once the surface breaks, that very repulsion seems to multiply the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Out of the Silence

* * * CHAPTER XIX AS time went on Alan came more and more under the dominance of Earani’s bewildering personality. His constant association with her added fuel to the ...
( Category: Adventure October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:The Three Impostors [Impostors, The Three]

Pausing a little at the end of Professor Gregg’s statement, Miss Lally continued her tale in the following words: — Such was the almost incredible story that the professor had ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1932-08-30 | Author:Clifford D. Simak [Simak, Clifford D.]

THEN he knew. He was not alone. Here, in this one body were the bodies, the brains, the power, the spirit, of those other ninety-eight men. In the fourth dimension, ...
( Category: Classics October 28,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-31 | Author:Joseph Sheridan le Fanu

* * * [Transcriber's note: "Tate-à-Tate" is [sic] twice in the original book.] * * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Evil Guest, by J. Sheridan Le ...
( Category: Horror October 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

Its glass door was severely, immaculately polished, but the latch on its garden gate was broken. Weeds grew over what had been gravelled walks, and cigarette stubs rocked softly in ...
( Category: United States October 24,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

“I do not know,” he said aloud. “I never had a bone spur.” As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at ...
( Category: Classics October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Truman Capote [Capote, Truman]

THAT EVENING, PHOTOGRAPHS OF HOLLY were front-paged by the late edition of the Journal-American and by the early editions of both the Daily News and the Daily Mirror. The publicity ...
( Category: Short Stories October 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-02 | Author:Stendhal & Catherine Slater & Roger Pearson [Stendhal & Slater, Catherine & Pearson, Roger]

has some service to request. One of my uncle's vicars-general is wonderful when he describes M. Descoulis's life since the Restoration. I'll bring him along for you.' 'Bah! I wouldn't ...
( Category: French October 16,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Alasdair Gray

CHAPTER 26. Chaos He waited a long time next morning for an impulse to get out of bed, and at last crawled to the larder, and to the lavatory, and ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-31 | Author:Henri Bergson [Bergson, Henri]

CHAPTER III THE COMIC IN CHARACTER I We have followed the comic along many of its winding channels in an endeavour to discover how it percolates into a form, an ...
( Category: Social Philosophy October 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

Twenty I HAVE TAKEN to writing pieces for the Evening Post under the pseudonym Old Patroon, a very conservative, very angry, very censorious old New Yorker. Mr. Bryant is delighted, ...
( Category: Biographical October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

II. All demeanour of rural serenity had been wrenched violently from the little town by the guns and by the waves of men which had surged through it. The hand ...
( Category: Military October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-08-01 | Author:David Hume [Hume, David]

Few men would envy the character which Caesar gives of Cassius: He loves no play, As thou do'st, Anthony: he hears no music: Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such ...
( Category: Utilitarianism October 12,2015 )