Historical
mobi |eng | 2015-01-02 | Author:Walpole, Hugh [Walpole, Hugh]

WAX FLOWERS AND THE REVOLUTION Adam tried, with all the self–control that belonged to his training, to forget what the day after tomorrow meant to him, but, try as he ...
( Category: Family Saga January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:John Buchan [Buchan, John]

Chapter XII The Man With the Squint The sermon which was to indict by name the sinners was not preached in the kirk of Woodilee the next Sabbath. For the ...
( Category: Occult January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

'Charles from Knapwater House brought it,' she said. 'Miss Aldclyffe's writing,' said Mr. Springrove, before Edward had recognized it himself. 'Now 'tis all right; she's going to make an offer; ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 9,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Orczy, Emmuska [Orczy, Emmuska]

CHAPTER XX Bibi's orders to Louise had been to go back to the inn and there to wait until he came in his calèche to take them home to Lou ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

21 A Poultice for Bruising IN ORDER TO KEEP FROM GOING OUTSIDE EVERY FEW MINUTES, Grey had accepted the invitation of two local men to join them at darts. One ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-29 | Author:Orczy, Emmuska [Orczy, Emmuska]

Chapter XXV An Arrant Knave In the street below, not far from the house which he had just quitted, Stoutenburg came on Nicolaes and Jan ensconced in the dark against ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:William Morris

CHAPTER XXIX They Bring the Runaways to Burgstead So now being out of the wood, they went peaceably and safely along the Portway, the Runaways mingling with the Dalesmen. Strange ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:John Galsworthy

CHAPTER VII Afternoon at Timothy's If old Jolyon, as he got into his cab, had said: 'I won't believe a word of it!' he would more truthfully have expressed his ...
( Category: British & Irish January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:John Buchan

Chapter XIV. A Wild Wager. That July morning in the forest gave me, if not popularity, at any rate peace. I had made good my position. Henceforth the word went ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

CHAPTER IX Latimer's Journal, in Continuation There is at length a halt—at length I have gained so much privacy as to enable me to continue my journal. It has become ...
( Category: Linguistics January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Smith, Wilbur [Smith, Wilbur]

The salt-pan was close ahead, hundreds of bare acres shimmering silver in the path of the sun. Craig narrowed picked up the tracks where his eyes against the glare, and ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Ford Madox Ford [Ford, Ford Madox]

II It has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self–suppression in matters of the emotion puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses. In ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Smith, Wilbur [Smith, Wilbur]

They cocked their ears back to catch his voice, deep and soft, as he talked to them. Isn't that right, Sean? Duff repeated. Of course, agreed Sean vaguely. You know, ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Dear Mr. President, Immediately upon receipt of your request that I send you a report on the Choptank tribe I assembled an impromptu commission consisting of the best informed citizens ...
( Category: Family Saga January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

XXIII. Military Preparations on an Extended Scale Christmas had passed. Dreary winter with dark evenings had given place to more dreary winter with light evenings. Rapid thaws had ended in ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory January 8,2016 )