Classics
epub |eng | 2009-04-03 | Author:H. A. Guerber [Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)]

Skrymsli and the Peasant’s Child A giant and a peasant were playing a game together one day (probably a game of chess, which was a favourite winter pastime with the ...
( Category: Classics April 27,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1881-04-26 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Chapter 14 Sir Tristram's Battle with Sir Launcelot Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 27,2015 )
epub, pdf |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cat Grant [Grant, Cat]

Chapter Eight Chase greeted him at the door, clad in nothing but a pair of low-slung jeans and a smile. He tugged Brian inside, then pushed him against the wall ...
( Category: Humor April 25,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Leopold, Aldo; Charles W. Schwartz [Leopold, Aldo; Charles W. Schwartz]

The sign says, ‘You are entering the Green River Soil Conservation District.’ In smaller type is a list of who is cooperating; the letters are too small to be read ...
( Category: Conservation April 23,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Eve Rabi [Rabi, Eve]

CHAPTER ELEVEN BRIDIE Khatija didn’t drink because of her Muslim faith, so she drove Buster, myself, and Lola to Cody’s. Behind us, Washington drove his friend’s Chevy. In his car ...
( Category: Women Authors April 7,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch

Chapter Twelve PAT was giddy with impatience. It was still only Thursday morning. Sunday rose up in front of him like a black cliff. The mountain must open to admit ...
( Category: Business April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway

7. THE NARDOO STONES IN THE 1950S, ONE’S first vision of the University of Sydney from its main gates was of a graceful sweep of lawn curving up a gentle ...
( Category: Women April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison

A STAR OVER BEDLAM The Police Chief is talking via fido to a man in a public booth. The man has turned off the video and is disguising his voice. ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olive Ann Burns

Above: This photograph, taken in front of Olive Ann’s great-grandfather’s store, circa 1900, provides a glimpse of the real people behind the characters in Cold Sassy Tree. Grandpa Power (Grandpa ...
( Category: Family Life April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Ford Madox Ford

Going back to his friends in the window Cromwell meditated that it was possible to imagine a woman that thought so simply; yet it was impossible to imagine one that ...
( Category: Biographical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison

How can she possibly know that? No candy in there, indeed! My God, look at all the things there are in there. How can she possibly tell there’s no candy: ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Olivia Manning

8 Although the spring was bright and dry, the night cold held a long time that year. At supper Miss Bohun would say: ‘I usually put the fire away in ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ogai Mori

Chapter Fourteen SUEZO had been at home reading his newspaper and smoking when Otsune went out shopping after clearing away the breakfast things, but when she returned, he was no ...
( Category: Japanese April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Harlan Ellison

<<Contents>> * * * * LORD RANDY, MY SON Introduction to LORD RANDY, MY SON: We were plunging up a dangerously twisting valley road in Madison, Indiana. The tires squealed ...
( Category: Anthologies April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-10 | Author:Hanan al-Shaykh

The Mistress of the House’s Tale y case is so strange, and my tale so bizarre, that if I engraved it with needles at the corner of my eye, it ...
( Category: African April 5,2015 )