Historical
epub |eng | 2010-04-09 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

CHAPTER 91 Six weeks passed by. Rodolphe did not return. One evening, at last, he appeared. “Better not come around too soon,” he had said to himself the day after ...
( Category: French July 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Norman G. Gautreau

New York City sits beneath a bright and sunny afternoon when the doorman at the Waldorf-Astoria waves down a taxi for me. “Brooklyn Cruise Terminal,” I tell the driver. The ...
( Category: Biographical July 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-28 | Author:George Bellairs

Nine Takeover Littlejohn and Cromwell met late in the afternoon of their busy day of working apart and called at Scotland Yard on their way home to discuss the results ...
( Category: Murder July 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

A month passed without his venturing south or west of the city, for the Tallow troop was hard-pressed mounting smuggler-patrols around Youghal, and Hervey’s troop had been sent to assist ...
( Category: War July 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE PEN AND THE SWORD Brighton, next day ‘What the fornicating hell do you mean, Captain Hervey? A halftroop’s horses gone, Strickland’s troop’s uniforms in tatters, dragoons killed!’ ...
( Category: Native American July 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-26 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

* Author's Notes: The Goose Flies South More on mercenaries: For thousands of years warfare offered a young man his best chance of advancement. Because of the rigid caste system ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-10 | Author:Medieval Murderers, The

Alice de Tracy heard the hooves approaching and felt her heart begin to thud painfully. She lived in perpetual dread of the future now, and those hoofbeats sounded like the ...
( Category: Crime July 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-09 | Author:Amitav Ghosh [Ghosh, Amitav]

part two Venice The Ghetto That there is a strange kinship between Venice and Varanasi has often been noted: both cities are like portals in time; they seem to draw ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage July 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-16 | Author:Jose Saramago [José Saramago]

THAT SAME NIGHT Ricardo Reis told Lydia that he had rented an apartment. She wept a little, complained that she would no longer be able to look at him at ...
( Category: European July 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Nalo Hopkinson [Hopkinson, Nalo]

Herbal I was once talking online with a group of writers and writing students about tactics for suspending the reader’s disbelief in the fantastical elements of a story. I found ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage July 7,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-30 | Author:Sorokin, Vladimir [Sorokin, Vladimir]

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vladimir Sorokin is the author of eleven novels, including Day of the Oprichnik (FSG, 2011), Ice Trilogy, and The Queue; thirteen plays; and numerous short ...
( Category: Historical July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

BETA Wrong again, Talbot! Learn another lesson, my boy! You fell at that fence! Never again must you lose yourself in the complacent contemplation of a first success! Captain Anderson ...
( Category: Sea Stories July 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-12 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

Chapter Twelve. The mountains into which Rink Witter led his four men were rugged and heavily wooded. Skirting the lower shoulder of a mesa, he headed across an open stretch ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 5,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-04-30 | Author:DeLillo, Don [DeLillo, Don]

A man spoke to him from the other side of the screen door. Lee looked at his bloated face peering in above the set of credentials he held under his ...
( Category: Historical July 4,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:MacLean, Scott [MacLean, Scott]

Chapter Nineteen My Favourite Death: 1867 I died in the winter of eighteen sixty-seven and I can honestly say it was the first and last death that I truly welcomed. ...
( Category: Historical July 4,2019 )