Classics
mobi |eng | 1967-01-02 | Author:Iris Murdoch

Pat reflected coolly on the folly of it all, the shortage of arms, the absence of sensible plans, the lack of elementary medical supplies and medical skill. He thought that ...
( Category: Classics January 19,2015 )
azw |eng | 2008-11-20 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

VIII The Harling children and I were never happier, never felt more contented and secure, than in the weeks of spring which broke that long winter. We were out all ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Flaubert, Gustave & Superior Formatting Publishing & Marx-Aveling, Eleanor [Flaubert, Gustave]

"Bring her to me," said her mother, rushing to embrace her. "How I love you, my poor child! How I love you!" Then noticing that the tips of her ears ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 17,2015 )
azw, epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

"Lord! No! (cried I) I think them terribly plain!" "Plain! (replied He) My dear Susan, you cannot really think so! Why what single Feature in the face of either of ...
( Category: Victorian January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Abbott, Edwin Abbott [Abbott, Edwin Abbott]

PART II: OTHER WORLDS "O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!" Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland It was the last day but one ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 17,2015 )
azw, pdf |eng | 2004-04-30 | Author:Kant, Immanuel [Kant, Immanuel]

( Category: Rationalism January 17,2015 )
azw, mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Aristotle

Euripides has thus embodied this sentiment; "How," says one of his Characters, "How foolish am I, who whereas I might have shared equally, idly numbered among the multitude of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 17,2015 )
mobi | | 2010-11-22 | Author:Edith Wharton

IV "Mr Waythorn, I don't like that French governess of Lily's." Haskett, subdued and apologetic, stood before Waythorn in the library, revolving his shabby hat in his hand. Waythorn, surprised ...
( Category: Short Stories January 17,2015 )
azw |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Wilde, Oscar [Wilde, Oscar]

One of the greatest difficulties with which the modern historian has to contend is the enormous complexity of the facts which come under his notice: D'Alembert's suggestion that at the ...
( Category: British & Irish January 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 1841-01-01 | Author:Frederick Marryat [Marryat, Frederick]

Chapter XXXVI "Well, Ready," said Mr. Seagrave, after breakfast, "which is to be our next job?" "Why, sir, I think we had better all set to, to collect the branches ...
( Category: Classics January 16,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-02-28 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Chapter 11 * FOR A MOMENT Astrid could not bring herself to speak. Her lips parted from Julia's and appeared to remain frozen. 'P... P... Patricia?'. The same, my dear. ...
( Category: Classics January 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER IX Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles. The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed ...
( Category: British & Irish January 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

LETTER the SEVENTH From Miss C. LUTTERELL to Miss M. LESLEY Bristol the 27th of March I have received Letters from you and your Mother-in-law within this week which have ...
( Category: Authors January 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 1831-01-01 | Author:Victor Hugo [Hugo, Victor]

CHAPTER III. THE BELLS. * * * After the morning in the pillory, the neighbors of Notre- Dame thought they noticed that Quasimodo's ardor for ringing had grown cool. Formerly, ...
( Category: French January 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 1872-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII: DICK MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL The effect of Geoffrey’s incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...
( Category: British & Irish January 13,2015 )