Classics
epub, mobi | | | Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

CHAPTER XIII THE WHITE LIGHT With the approach of night our vigilance was doubled. There was no thought of sleep among the crew, and, with the twilight, there was a ...
( Category: Legal July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Alice B. Emerson

Chapter XIV A Change of Base Ruth's daily tasks did not often bring her into contact with the chief of her unit. This was a very large hospital—one of the ...
( Category: Classics July 31,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf | | | Author:John Reed

Chapter IX Victory Order Number I To the Troops of the Pulkovo Detachment. November 13, 1917. 38 minutes past 9 a. m. After a cruel fight the troops of the ...
( Category: Classics July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

I reopened my eyes some time later, and the moonlight, perhaps because of a cloud, had grown much fainter. I stretched out my hand at my side and no longer ...
( Category: Historical July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:C. D. Baker [Baker, C. D.]

As swiftly as the unexpected had arrived, it passed. No sounds were heard other than the wash of calmer waves streaming timidly around displaced trees and rocks. The rain had ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction July 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Robert Musil [Musil, Robert]

He was in this mood when Beineberg came upon him. “Well, Törless, how was it yesterday with the maths crammer?” They were sitting alone in a window-bay and had pushed ...
( Category: Literary July 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Alfred Döblin

American Quick Pressing, an open window, two steaming ironing-boards, in the background several men, not much American about them, sitting smoking, in the front a swarthy young tailor in his ...
( Category: Murder July 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-18 | Author:Sax Rohmer

Chapter V Conclusion of Statement I come now to the conclusion of this statement and to the strange occurrence which led to my proclaiming myself. The fear of imminent assassination ...
( Category: Contemporary July 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-06-30 | Author:Ambrose Bierce [Bierce, Ambrose]

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-30 | Author:Szerb, Antal [Szerb, Antal]

The Earl was present at breakfast the next morning. He had also invited the Rev Dafyd Jones. Everyone else bore signs of sleeplessness, especially Cynthia. The black rings around her ...
( Category: Satire July 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-24 | Author:Antal Szerb [Antal Szerb]

PART THREE ROME Go thou to Rome—at once the Paradise The Grave, the City, and the Wilderness. SHELLEY: Adonais XIII MIHÁLY had now been in Rome for several days, and ...
( Category: Historical July 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 1977-08-14 | Author:Bruno Schulz

The Street of Crocodiles My father kept in the lower drawer of his large desk an old and beautiful map of our city. It was a whole folio sheaf of ...
( Category: Classics July 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1921-12-31 | Author:von Arnim, Elizabeth

13 THE UNEVENTFUL days—only outwardly uneventful— slipped by in floods of sunshine, and the servants, watching the four ladies, came to the conclusion there was very little life in them. ...
( Category: Contemporary July 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-21 | Author:Leonard, Elmore [Elmore, Leonard,]

Chapter 13 PEGGY WAS THE ONLY ONE IN THE LOBBY when Mitchell walked in. She had her coat on, ready to leave. "You quitting already? It's only five-thirty." "I've taken ...
( Category: Classics July 24,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1943-07-15 | Author:Hermann Hesse

Knecht, who had listened with good humor to this outburst, asked casually: "Doesn't the history of thought, of culture and the arts, have some kind of connection with the rest ...
( Category: World Literature July 23,2014 )