Classics
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Lauran Paine

IV Under a hot pink brightness Tom Barker stirred in his blankets, raised up, and propped his head on one hand, gazing along the pearl-gray floor of desert, misty and ...
( Category: Classics September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2007-09-21 | Author:E. T. A. Hoffmann & Alexandre Dumas

The Tale of the Nutcracker Godfather Drosselmayer Once, in the town of Nuremberg, there lived a highly esteemed presiding judge known as Presiding Judge Silberhaus, which means Silver House. This ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Guy Fraser-Sampson

Chapter 11 Lucia arrived alone for lunch, Brabazon Lodge having departed to Milan for an important business meeting. As she entered the lounge she felt her social antennae beginning to ...
( Category: Classics September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Bram Stoker

CHAPTER VI THE WHITE WORM Mr Salton introduced Adam to Mr Watford and his granddaughters, and they all moved on together. Of course people, neighbours, in the position of the ...
( Category: Classics September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Edited & with an Introduction by William Butler Yeats [Yeats, William Butler]

THE HORNED WOMEN* LADY WILDE A rich woman sat up late one night carding and preparing wool, while all the family and servants were asleep. Suddenly a knock was given ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Bely, Andrei [Bely, Andrei]

Griffins And the prospects stretched – over there, over there: the prospects stretched; the gloomy pedestrian did not hurry his step: the gloomy pedestrian looked painfully around him: these infinities ...
( Category: Contemporary September 22,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Catherine Lim [Lim, Catherine]

Lee Geok Chan Lee Geok Chan was one of my students in pre-university. One of the many for whom long hours of study ensured, at most, a scraping through the ...
( Category: Classics September 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

"It's too wet to start a real fire going," Oykib murmured. "I'm counting on that," said Nafai. "You think I want to burn down our village?" As far as the ...
( Category: Fantasy September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER 6 The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen ...
( Category: Classics September 15,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:Katherine Mansfield [Mansfield, Katherine]

The Doves’ Nest and other stories To Walter de la Mare The Doll’s House WHEN dear old Mrs. Hay went back to town after staying with the Burnells she sent ...
( Category: Contemporary September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-30 | Author:Sivadasa [Sivadasa]

There is a city named Ćūdāpura, ruled by a king named Ćūdāmani. The Royal Priest was one Harisvāmi, son of Devasvāmi. In looks the Royal Priest was as handsome as ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Hugh Walpole

Chapter VII Return Hans jumped out of the car, let himself in with his key, and stood in the hall looking about him as though he were seeing it for ...
( Category: Classics September 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:John Steinbeck

Tod Johnson was no more born to the purple than was the original Charles Martel. In 1932 the Johnson Grocery in Petaluma, California, nudged on by what was called “The ...
( Category: Contemporary September 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-08-25 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

CHAPTER NINE On Monday perfidious spring dodged back toward winter with cold rain and raw gusty wind that shredded the tender leaves of too trusting trees. The bold and concupiscent ...
( Category: Literary September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CHAPTER TWO UNDER the inspiration of this incident and the discussions attending it, they went along to the burial-ground next day and the architect put forward several happy suggestions for ...
( Category: Literary September 5,2014 )