Classics
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Georges Simenon

“As far as I can tell, they’re the ones,” said the man in the Hôtel George V, examining the bundles of banknotes that Maigret had handed him. “But there was ...
( Category: Mystery December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:Bánffy, Miklós [Bánffy, Miklós]

Laszlo was a great success as dance leader for he was exceptionally good at the job. He could bring any party to life, invented new figures for the quadrille and ...
( Category: Historical December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

Lu Su hastened back to Zhou Yu to tell him that all was going as he desired and Liu Bei would come out to welcome the army. Zhou Yu laughed ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. D. Beresford

III The Wonder ignored an invitation to lunch; he ignored, also, the tray that was sent in to him. He read on steadily till a quarter to six, by which ...
( Category: Linguistics December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Robert J. Horton

Chapter Twenty In his delirious sleep, Bannister was riding like mad—riding like mad from white specters that pursued him on great blue horses. The smell of smoke was in the ...
( Category: Westerns December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-02-28 | Author:Brontë, Anne

CHAPTER 31 SOCIAL VIRTUES March 20th, 1824. The dreaded time is come, and Arthur is gone, as I expected. This time he announced it his intention to make but a ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-29 | Author:Jean Webster

You never heard of our little Tammas Kehoe, did you? I simply haven’t featured Tammas because he requires so much ink and time and vocabulary. He’s a spirited lad, and ...
( Category: Coming of Age December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Maurice Leblanc [Leblanc, Maurice]

VI. THE LADY WITH THE HATCHET One of the most incomprehensible incidents that preceded the great war was certainly the one which was known as the episode of the lady ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-30 | Author:William Styron

IV Had the Colonel entertained any immediate notions of retribution, he held them off, for at a quarter past four that morning—halfway through the march, when the first green light ...
( Category: War December 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-05-19 | Author:Luo Guanzhong

On hearing of the approach of Cao Cao and his army, Zhang Xiu wrote to Liu Biao for help. Then he led his men out of the city under the ...
( Category: Chinese December 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Wilkie Collins & M. R. James & Charles Dickens & Others

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE BODY-SNATCHER EVERY NIGHT in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham—the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Kate Grenville

I left Duncan not on a night of moon while stockmen snored and dreamed of wild exploits, but among quinces in syrup and bottled peas like pearls. Duncan and I ...
( Category: Contemporary December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Negri, Paul [Negri, Paul]

On a pattern like this, by daylight, there is a lack of sequence, a defiance of law, that is a constant irritant to a normal mind. The color is hideous ...
( Category: Classics December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-12 | Author:Anton Chekhov

V ‘I haven’t died,’ Olga thought when she became aware of her surroundings again and the pains had gone. A bright summer’s day looked in through the two wide-open bedroom ...
( Category: Anthologies December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-01-21 | Author:Hesse, Hermann [Hesse, Hermann]

But, as it was, I distrusted her cheerfulness, and I credited the tenderness and fine understanding she showed me to that fatal sympathy. I could not rid myself of the ...
( Category: Classics December 27,2014 )