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Beowulf (B&N) by Anonymous
epub |eng | 1000-01-09 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

- XX - Hrothgar replied, the ruler of the Scyldings: “Ask not about gladness! Grief is renewed for the Danish people. Aeschere is dead, the elder brother of Yrmenlaf the ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2018 )
Streetcar Named Desire, A by Williams Tennessee
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

[In the ensuing pause, the “blue piano” is heard. It continues through the rest of this scene and the opening of the next. The young man clears his throat and ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
Complete Aeschylus, The (Volume I: The Oresteia) by Aeschylus
epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Aeschylus [Aeschylus]

410 withering life away. Yes, at our birth, we were given this holy task. Strophe 2 So the high gods steer clear of us, and we of them. None of ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
Farewell to Arms, A by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1929-01-15 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Chapter XXVI I went to the door and looked out. It had stopped raining but there was a mist. “Should we go upstairs?” I asked the priest. “I can only ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Dracula (B&N) by Stoker Bram
epub |eng | 1897-01-01 | Author:Stoker, Bram [Stoker, Bram]

DR SEWARD’S DIARY 26 September. Truly there is no such thing as finality. Not a week since I said ‘Finis,’ and yet here I am starting fresh again, or rather ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Lady Chatterley's Lover (B&N) by Lawrence D. H
epub |eng | 1928-01-01 | Author:Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, D. H.]

CHAPTER ELEVEN CONNIE WAS SORTING OUT one of the Wragby lumber rooms. There were several: the house was a warren, and the family never sold anything. Sir Geoffrey’s father had ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Iliad, The (B&N) by Homer
epub |eng | 0101-02-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2018 )
Uncle Tom's Cabin (B&N) by Stowe Harriet Beecher
epub |eng | 1852-07-15 | Author:Stowe, Harriet Beecher [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

CHAPTER 19 Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions (Continued) Tom, you needn’t get me the horses. I don’t want to go,” she said. “Why not, Miss Eva?” “These things sink into ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Cliff Janeway (04): Sign of the Book, The by Dunning John
epub |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Dunning, John [Dunning, John]

The courtroom was empty, except for the judge, the deputy, and a reporter. The hearing was announced and the judge peered down from on high. “Well, you’re just like Charlie ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
Crying of Lot 49, The by Pynchon Thomas
epub |eng | 1966-01-03 | Author:Pynchon, Thomas [Pynchon, Thomas]

5 Though her next move should have been to contact Randolph Driblette again, she decided instead to drive up to Berkeley. She wanted to find out where Richard Wharfinger had ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Prince and the Pauper, The (B&N) by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 1881-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

“I AM EDWARD, KING OF ENGLAND” “I thank you, my good people.” This unexpected result threw the company into convulsions of merriment. When something like quiet was presently come again, ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Old Man and Me, The by Dundy Elaine
epub |eng | 1964-01-19 | Author:Dundy, Elaine [Dundy, Elaine]

10 NO DOUBT because of my being an American (though possibly the strain of all the mixed emotions I'd been feeling that day might have had something to do with ...
( Category: Women's Fiction November 12,2018 )
Main Street (B&N) by Lewis Sinclair
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

II She disliked “The Girl from Kankakee” even more than she had expected. It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery. She ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Voyage Out, The (B&N) by Woolf Virginia
epub |eng | 1915-01-01 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER XV WHETHER TOO SLIGHT OR too vague the ties that bind people casually meeting in a hotel at midnight, they possess one advantage at least over the bonds which ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Sons and Lovers (B&N) by Lawrence D. H
epub |eng | 1913-02-01 | Author:Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, D. H.]

9 Defeat of Miriam PAUL was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or wounded ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )

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