Classics
epub |eng | 1955-06-11 | Author:Patrick White

Sister Thing—Flora Manhood—was stirring. He, too. Without her knowing, she was filling him with more than pleasure, poor girl: positive joy. He had to impress it on her whether he ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Patrick White

Now her blood began to flow. Her shoulders were the wings of birds. Her mind was a bower-bird, greedy for the shells and coloured glass that would transform the drab ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Patrick White

Chapter 17 AMY PARKER accepted the absence of her son; as time passed, it was not so very different really from his presence. If she thought about him, it was ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:A. J. Cronin [Cronin, A.J.]

TWELVE The Black Maria stopped with a jerk outside Benton Prison and there was the sounds of bolts being withdrawn. Arthur sat up in his dark little stall, still trying ...
( Category: Classics June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER XXIII Retaliation The public-house that had been chosen by the leaders of the press-gang in Monkshaven at this time, for their rendezvous (or ‘Randyvowse’, as it was generally pronounced), ...
( Category: Victorian June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-10 | Author:Gaito Gazdanov [Gaito Gazdanov]

It was precisely ten minutes to one when I left. I remember this because I glanced at my watch and momentarily thought, in the false light of the street lamp, ...
( Category: Mystery June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Fall, Laura Lee [Fall, Laura Lee]

Sitting on the bed brushing her daughters curls back, as she fell asleep, Ella felt torn when she got up walking over to the door going out into the hallway ...
( Category: Family Saga June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Hans Fallada

XII Of course they inevitably discussed this momentous event in the midday break. They were very proud of having ejected the great Herr Seidenzopf, who had, such a short time ...
( Category: German June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Valery Bruisov [Bruisov, Valery]

Chapter the Ninth How we spent the Month of December and the Festival of Christ’s Birth AS I learned later, there hastened to my assistance, while I lay prostrate and ...
( Category: Historical June 11,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hans Olav Lahlum [Lahlum, Hans Olav]

XIII Around nine o’clock I went back to the police station to finish my report. Once I had done this I wrote out Patricia’s suggested wording for a police bulletin. ...
( Category: Crime June 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Harris, John [Harris, John]

he said ‘In flippin’ mud what’s four foot deep, If I’m not ’ere when you awake, Just scrape me out wiv a garden rake.’ He finished with a fervent ‘Amen’ ...
( Category: War June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:James Hogg [Hogg, James]

‘See, madam, here are ten signatures of privy councillors of that year, and here are other ten of the present year, with His Grace the Duke of Queensberry at the ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1999-02-09 | Author:Graham Greene

2 Sarah came out to greet him as he was hanging his coat in the hall. She asked, 'Has something happened?' 'No.' 'You've never been as late as this without ...
( Category: Espionage June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: Poetry June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-09-20 | Author:Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 11,2015 )