Historical
epub |eng | 2012-06-23 | Author:Colin Falconer [Falconer, Colin]

*** One day I gave her a one pound note to go to the shops and fetch groceries. She came home empty-handed, the money gone; well, not exactly empty-handed, because ...
( Category: Europe March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:CHARLES JOHNSON

7 Calvary AME Church, a pitched-roof, redbrick building with two lancet-arched doorways and a blue and white sign swinging from its southwest edge on the corners of Emerson and Darrow ...
( Category: Biographical March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Lorraine Lachs

I am ashamed to say that I soon left my sorrow behind in the busy days of my life. Although I was lonely at home and required to cook the ...
( Category: Historical March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Pumphrey

Samoset AT LAST SPRING CAME bringing health and hope to the Pilgrims. Again the axes rang out in the forest, and the half-built cottages were soon finished. The snow melted ...
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

CHAPTER 11: THE BATTLE OF ANTIUM. .................. “WE ARE RUNNING VERY FAR north,” the captain said on the 29th of May. “We are near Antium now, and are getting into ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-07 | Author:Henryk Sienkiewicz [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

“No. I shall ride on the same horse with you. Kali and Mea will ride on the others, and the donkey will carry the tent and the luggage.” “Good! Good!” ...
( Category: Christian Historical Fiction March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Henryk Sienkiewicz [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

“We tried, but he did not answer, and I believe that he will not speak before dawn.” “We will wait till the dawn,” said the princess. The priest insisted that ...
( Category: Historical March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:E. A. Wallis Budge [Unbekannt]

(Act v., scene 2) Mr. Elworthy in his very interesting book "The Evil Eye" relates some striking examples of the burning of hearts stuck full of pins for magical purposes ...
( Category: Magic Studies March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Thomas Nelson Page [Page, Thomas Nelson]

CHAPTER XXV THE TRICK-DOCTOR Ruth Welch on awaking, still, perhaps, had some little feeling about what she understood to be her hosts’ attitude on the question of Northerners, but when ...
( Category: Biographical March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:G.A. Henty

CHAPTER 13: THE MASSACRE OF CHOLULA. ~ THE TLASCALANS HAD, FROM THE moment when they admitted themselves beaten by the Spaniards, laid aside all hostility; and had, indeed, accepted the ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Sir Walter]

"It is the badness of his fare that has put him out of humour," said the Countess Isabelle. "Cheer up, Seignior Quentin, and should we ever visit my ancient Castle ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Lydia Gastrell [Gastrell, Lydia]

Chapter Eleven Shock John awoke to the sound of water being poured. By the time he opened one crusty eye, a servant was already pulling the door closed behind him. ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ursula Hegi

1904–1907 Chapter 18 IT WAS RAINING like that the afternoon Frau Abramowitz hoisted Thekla onto her desk in the living room and told her the most beautiful word in all ...
( Category: Historical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-03 | Author:Stephanie Laurens

At twelve o’clock Abby returned to the room. She’d got into her bed but hadn’t been able to settle, much less sleep. How could she sleep when Adrian might… Be ...
( Category: Historical March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Candace Camp

* * * “NO!” THISBE’S EYES flew open. She was still for a moment, letting the world around her settle into reality once again. There had been no pain this ...
( Category: Victorian Historical Romance March 16,2020 )