Classics
mobi |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Carlo Emilio Gadda; Italo Calvino; William Weaver

VII "Ines Cionini ..." "Yes, Chief?" Paolillo asked. "To be kept at our disposal! . . ." Poor girl, she was to await the dawn on the flat board of ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Walker Percy

2 MY HALF BROTHERS and sisters are eating crabs at a sawbuck table on the screened porch. The carcasses mount toward a naked light bulb. They blink at me and ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:John Muir

View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir It is in these woods the great granite domes rise that are so striking and characteristic a feature of the Sierra. And ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-11-06 | Author:John Steinbeck

CHAPTER VI There was a little street not far from the town square where small peaked roofs and little shops were mixed up together. The snow was beaten down on ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2002-04-09 | Author:Matthew Gregory Lewis

Such was the state of Leonella’s mind when obliged to quit Madrid. Elvira was out of patience at all these follies, and endeavoured at persuading her to act like a ...
( Category: Horror March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-14 | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED IN A HANDSOME ROOM: though its furniture had rather the air of old-fashioned comfort, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1955-07-15 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

Holy Saturday in Matchet; Mr Crouchback broke his Lenten fast. He had given up, as he always did, wine and tobacco. During the preceding weeks two parcels had come from ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-25 | Author:William W. Stuart

SMILING, charming—and still not an order form in sight—Ben and Betty got back to their guests. Another half hour. Barboy was passing around with nightcaps. Lucy Wilson nervously put a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1922-10-14 | Author:E. R. Eddison

The fire of her father's wine shuddered down within her like a low-lit flame in a gust of wind as she sat there alone with King Gorice XII. in the ...
( Category: Occult March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1900-01-02 | Author:L. Frank Baum; Regina Barreca

“The Eyes looked at her thoughtfully.” The eyes winked three times, and then they turned up to the ceiling and down to the floor and rolled around so queerly that ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Kobo Abe

20 HIS face was as stiff as starch, his breathing like a storm. His saliva tasted of dry scorched sugar … and such a terrible loss of energy. At least ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:G. K. Chesterton

Seven - The Purple Wig * MR EDWARD NUTT, the industrious editor of the Daily Reformer, sat at his desk, opening letters and marking proofs to the merry tune of ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:John Cheever

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Northeaster (Leander wrote). Wind backed from SW. 3rd equinoctial disturbance of season. All in love is not larky and fractious.—In the attic the broken harp-string music of water ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1907-01-01 | Author:H. Rider Haggard; Benjamin Ivry

Chapter 11 We Give a Sign FOR A LONG WHILE-two hours, I should think—we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1901-01-01 | Author:Rudyard Kipling; Jeffrey Meyers

Kim will remember till he dies that long, lazy journey from Umballa, through Kalka215 and the Pinjore Gardens216 near by, up to Simla. A sudden spate in the Gugger River ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )