Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

Chapter 17 MY study of Julius Caesar’s commentaries on his two British campaigns made it clear to me that unless conditions had changed considerably since his day it was possible ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Christopher Priest

“By purchase,” I replied. “I wish you to build me an electrical apparatus, and if we can agree a price I shall gladly pay for it.” We had been strolling ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver

So I pass the time by telling him stories from home: the kids I knew back at Bethlehem High and things we used to do. It makes me homesick. But, ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Alan Furst

Minden kis Lambeth leany Az ö kis, Lambeth parjäval Ugy találnád hogy ök Sétalják a Lambeth Walk. Oi! Afterward, they went to the tearoom of the Hotel Gellert and had ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-27 | Author:Jamie Ford

Camp Harmony (1942) Henry pretended he was sick the next day, even refusing to eat. But he knew he could fool his mother only so long, if he was fooling ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-23 | Author:Christopher Moore

“I heard you try,” said Kent. The two had been friends in a former life, but now, Kent, lean and dark-​haired, looked younger and more than a measure dangerous, while ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Hansen, Ron [Hansen, Ron]

On Christmas Eve 1926, the three met at the Waldorf-Astoria to exchange presents, and Judd widened Lorraine’s eyes with a girl’s very adult-seeming pink silk lingerie that she was thrilled ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Glenway Wescott; David Leavitt

11. THOUGH ALEX HAD NOT DARED TO TURN AND ACKNOWLEDGE his father’s last instruction, he had heard it. To be quick about it, to run all the way to the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tanizaki, Junichiro [Tanizaki, Junichiro]

"I WOULD join the song-thrush And sing my way up the river To meet spring in Miyako." Her semisen tuned to the proper low mode, O-hisa was singing an old ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-03-15 | Author:John Steinbeck

Chapter 25 1 It was a deluge of a winter in the Salinas Valley, wet and wonderful. The rains fell gently and soaked in and did not freshet. The feed ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Richard Harvell

XII. One night every week I was alive. I prayed that Karoline’s ailing aunt would not pass away, and for one blissful year, at least, my prayers were answered. Every ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Booth Tarkington

CHAPTER XIX George went driving the next afternoon alone, and, encountering Lucy and her father on the road, in one of Morgan’s cars, lifted his hat, but nowise relaxed his ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-16 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz

THE TWO QUEENS SOFKHATEP WAS not the only one whose head was bowed by woe. The queen had confined herself to her chambers, brooding over the sadness buried deep inside ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1989-03-14 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

PART III I. THE Epanchin family, or at least the more serious members of it, were sometimes grieved because they seemed so unlike the rest of the world. They were ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-02 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

Chapter 18 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 ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )