epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-07-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

Chapter XII Mr Bold's Visit to Plumstead Whether or no the ill-natured prediction made by certain ladies in the beginning of the last chapter was or was not carried out ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Whitehead Colson [Colson, Whitehead]

TARGET PRACTICE BEHIND THE PARK was on a Wednesday I can't remember what happened the next day. Something bad probably happened to someone. On Monday we were back at the ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Frame, Janet

11 The library performed a similar function to the English church – it gathered together the exiles who had left England partly because they did not wish to be gathered ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

39. The Caravaggio Within We go in – just as we always do, thought Dr. Macgregor as he led his daughter into the dining room of what John Gifford and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-30 | Author:Szerb, Antal [Szerb, Antal]

The Earl was present at breakfast the next morning. He had also invited the Rev Dafyd Jones. Everyone else bore signs of sleeplessness, especially Cynthia. The black rings around her ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Carlton Mellick III

CHAPTER SIX CABBAGE SKIN 59 60 ☺ Tea has her arm wrapped around me as we walk down the hallway to the armory. She nods at all of the elf ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1996-04-15 | Author:William Browning Spencer

Look at mice. What if a mouse was always thinking, 'Jesus God, I am on everyone's food chain. Owls, foxes, cats, snakes, you name it. What was that!'? The thing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Greg Bardsley

Seven This much I know . . . David Duncan is in his $3 million home on Jackson Street, near Broderick–Pacific Heights. He’s in the office, tapping on his laptop, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1929-10-09 | Author:Thorne Smith

Chapter 13 A LAPFUL OF SANDY "WHY must I be carried into the city?" Mr. Lamb complained, as his daughter spread disorder among the traffic in upper New York. "I ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Sorokin, Vladimir

CHAIRMAN OF THE DUMA: So, we take power. But what do we do with Russia, Sergei Ivanovich? MINISTER: Saw it up and sell it. CHAIRMAN: To whom? MINISTER: We sell ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mikhail Bulgakov [Bulgakov, Mikhail]

____________________ Sharik knew how to read. To read (3 exclamation marks). It was I who guessed this. From "Glavryba". He had read it backwards. And I even knew where to ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Harry Harrison [Harrison, Harry]

Chapter 12 “Mayerd!” I said as I tripped over the uneven footing on the bridge. I did not know what it meant, but it was the most common word the ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Harry Harrison [Harrison, Harry]

Chapter 11 It wasn’t really consciousness, but a sort of ruddy, pain-filled blur. A gut-gripping nausea fought with the pain, but the pain won easily. Part of the trouble was ...

epub |eng | 1998-06-30 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

MR. GISSING. A prompt reply from the Bishop's secretary granted him an appointment. Scrupulously attired in his tail-coat and silk hat, Gissing proceeded toward the rendezvous. To tell the truth, ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:Albert Cossery [Cossery, Albert]

7 THE SORDIDNESS of the decor made him all the more sensitive to his feeling of having fallen low. This pastry shop was truly ignoble, but it had the advantage ...