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Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Charles Dickens
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

Mr. Claypole as he appeared when his Master was out “Here’s a delicious fat one, Noah, dear!” said Charlotte; “try him, do; only this one.” “What a delicious thing is ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome
epub |eng | 2005-11-01 | Author:Arthur Ransome [Ransome, Arthur]

The old man said nothing, but went on, climbing up and up, nearly dead with the weight of the old woman in the sack which he was holding in his ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 26,2014 )
Smith, Betty by A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
epub |eng | | Author:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in]

* * * XXXII FRANCIE had started a diary on her thirteenth birthday with the entry: Dec. 15. Today I enter my teens. What will the year bring forth? I ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
A passage to India by E. M. Forster
epub, mobi | | 2005-06-29 | Author:E. M. Forster [Forster, E. M.]

CHAPTER XX Although Miss Quested had not made herself popular with the English, she brought out all that was fine in their character. For a few hours an exalted emotion ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON AT CAPUA I WAS SITTING ON a stone bench behind the stables of my villa, thinking out some problem of Etruscan history and idly shooting dice, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-07 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

6—Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete All that evening smart sounds denoting an active packing up came from Yeobright's room to the ears of his mother downstairs. Next morning ...
( Category: Reference March 26,2014 )
The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
epub, mobi | | 1997-10-13 | Author:Mikhail Bulgakov [Bulgakov, Mikhail]

CHAPTER 10. News From Yalta At the same rime that disaster struck. Nikanor Ivanovich, not far away from no.502-bis, on the same Sadovaya Street, in the office of the financial ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

29. ETHELBERTA’S DRESSING-ROOM—MR. DONCASTLE’S HOUSE The dressing of Ethelberta for the dinner-party was an undertaking into which Picotee threw her whole skill as tirewoman. Her energies were brisker that day ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
Native Son by Richard Wright
epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 1940-03-25 | 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: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]

Chapter 7 Jean made that pair of shoes working upon the dressing-table of her bedroom; to be more exact, she made three pairs before she got a pair that she ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea by Buck Pearl S
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

Part III III “WHY DO YOU FOLLOW ME?” Yul-chun demanded. He bent over the small refractory hand press. It was too old, this press, worn out years ago in an ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Peony: A Novel of China by Buck Pearl S
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

VII THE RABBI DID NOT return to the house of Ezra. When he knew he was alone in the synagogue and that David had gone, he went into his own ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

Plainly the Professor was the traditional hero of this family, and I began to feel rather like an impostor! I suppose it was foolish of me, but I had already ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts & Henry Louis Gates
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:Hannah Crafts & Henry Louis Gates [Crafts, Hannah & Gates, Henry Louis]

“Will you have the goodness to favor an unfortunate woman with a private interview to[-]night in the bower at the bottom of the garden; the hour of meeting midnight.” Charlotte ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Psmith, Journalist by P. G. Wodehouse
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )

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