Classics
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-01-31 | Author:George Orwell

Chapter V Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1998-08-15 | Author:Richard Wright

He left the room and went down to a window on the first floor and looked out. The street was quiet and no cars were running. The tracks were buried ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1880-01-01 | Author:Émile Zola

CHAPTER VIII It was in the Rue Véron, at Montmartre, in a little apartment on the fourth floor. Nana and Fontan had invited a few friends to partake of their ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

CHAPTER XI Nevertheless events did not turn out as Chichikov had intended they should. In the first place, he overslept himself. That was check number one. In the second place, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1841-12-31 | Author:Nikolai Gogol; Constance Garnett; Jeffrey Meyers

CHAPTER 10 When they met at the house of the police-master, already known to the reader as the father and benefactor of the town, the officials had the opportunity of ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1993-08-15 | Author:Charles Darwin

Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection as Applied to Instincts: Neuter and Sterile Insects It has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that “the ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-27 | Author:Choderlos de Laclos

PART III —88— CÉCILE VOLANGES TO THE VICOMTE DE VALMONT IN SPITE OF ALL the pleasure that I take, Monsieur, in the letters of M. le Chevalier Danceny, and although ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

Mrs. Elmira Brown’s foot hurt her in the middle of the night, so she got up and went down to the kitchen and ate some cold chicken and made a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Carson McCullers

After a moment the Captain said: 'Well, Private, you can see that I am seated. Let go!' Private Williams stepped back a few paces. The Captain held tight to the ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-07-03 | Author:Daniel Defoe

| Go to Contents | Chapter XII ALL this labour I was at the expense of, purely from my apprehensions on the account of the print of a man's foot ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-03-01 | Author:Victor Hugo

5 SUNDRY THUNDERBOLTS FALL UPON MA‘AM BOUGON NEXT DAY, Ma‘am Bougon,—thus Courfeyrac designated the old portress-landlady of the Gorbeau tenement,—Ma’am Bougon—her name was in reality Madame Bougon, as we have ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1926-01-02 | Author:Peirre Choderlos de Laclos; Ernest Dowson; Alfred Mac Adam

PART III —88— CÉCILE VOLANGES TO THE VICOMTE DE VALMONT IN SPITE OF ALL the pleasure that I take, Monsieur, in the letters of M. le Chevalier Danceny, and although ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Walker Percy

5. “A pretty links, isn’t it? You know, I was one of the first people to be brought up in a suburb. Aren’t you Will Barrett?” He had been watching ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Walker Percy

6 IT WAS LUNCHTIME when my daughter Lucy came down for breakfast in quilted housecoat, face voluptuous, sleepy-eyed, slightly puffy. “Aren’t you supposed to be in school?” I asked her, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-05-31 | Author:Walker Percy

6 IT WAS LUNCHTIME when my daughter Lucy came down for breakfast in quilted housecoat, face voluptuous, sleepy-eyed, slightly puffy. “Aren’t you supposed to be in school?” I asked her, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )