Historical
epub |eng | | Author:Antonia Senior

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN HEN WALKS THROUGH THE TOWER’S GREAT ARCH, PAST THE guards and the idle gawpers, past the cluster of ravens which gathers at the entrance, past the beggar woman ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia [Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia]

CHAPTER TEN Jemmy held the door for Marie-Louise to pass into the vine-house, and followed her, closing it carefully behind them. They were enclosed at once in a warm, damp, ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Hugo, Victor [Hugo, Victor]

III THE BELLS SINCE the morning in the pillory, it had seemed to the people living near Notre-Dame that they could detect a considerable cooling-off in Quasimodo’s ardour for ringing ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Michael Jecks [Jecks, Michael]

Chapter Eighteen Exeter The castle was ever a bustling place, but today it was still more busy than usual, and Baldwin gazed about him with surprise as he entered the ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

THE SKY WAS DARK when Monk left the prison and made his way to the ferry, even though it was July. The ferryman was gray-haired and lean-faced. His powerful arms ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Michael Jecks [Jecks, Michael]

Chapter Twenty-One Robert Crokers felt good that morning. He had slept better, and as his bitch lay patiently waiting he knelt nearby, watching. ‘Poor old girl,’ he whispered. ‘You mooning ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Thomas, Sherry [Thomas, Sherry]

CHAPTER 10 Choices Chinese Turkestan 1883 Leighton woke up inexpressibly happy. Every single step that he had taken in his life, it seemed, had led to this place, this moment: ...
( Category: Asian American September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Ellis Peters [Peters, Ellis]

8 Joscelin arose before dawn, with scrupulous care not to awake his bedfellow, who lay now in his abandoned ease and warmth with limbs flung abroad as if discarded. The ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Michael Jecks [Jecks, Michael]

Chapter Seventeen Simon and Baldwin were woken the next morning by the sudden eruption of noise as the little fortress’s servants began to rouse themselves. It was something that Simon ...
( Category: Historical Mystery September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tom Holt

The war had certainly had an inflationary effect on the value of news in Tilling. The minor incidents of life—Benjy getting tipsy or Diva resurrecting the chintz roses—no longer provided ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Muriel Rukeyser [Rukeyser, Muriel]

CHAPTER NINE Official Welcome to Assembled Sportsmen Boxing Wrestling Gymnastics Addresses Theatrical Performances —Program, People’s Olympiad Helen stayed in the train after the others had gone. She did not believe ...
( Category: Biographical September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Sadler, Barry [Sadler, Barry]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN The games had lasted all day and much of the night, and included every test of strength, agility, skill, and courage that the mind of man could conceive ...
( Category: Espionage September 22,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:Sadler, Barry [Sadler, Barry]

Chapter Twelve - THE TARIM Tsin-ta'i and the map were on the money. The trail leading to the east on the edge of the endless wastes of the Tarim basin ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Donald Barthelme & Dave Eggers

At The Tolstoy Museum AT the Tolstoy Museum we sat and wept. Paper streamers came out of our eyes. Our gaze drifted toward the pictures. They were placed too high ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guy Fraser-Sampson

Chapter 7 The next day being Sunday, Lucy was able to waylay Diva on her way to church. This plan necessitated a change from her normal habits, since she and ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )