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Henry IV: Part Two by William Shakespeare; Sylvan Barnet; Norman N. Holland
mobi |eng | 2002-09-03 | Author:William Shakespeare; Sylvan Barnet; Norman N. Holland

Lines 363–480: Falstaff meets with a rebel knight, Coleville, and persuades him to surrender, relying on his false reputation for having killed Hotspur (seeHenry IV Part I). Prince John and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 9,2018 )
Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe by Eliot George
epub |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Eliot, George

Chapter XII While Godfrey Cass was taking draughts of forgetfulness from the sweet presence of Nancy, willingly losing all sense of that hidden bond which at other moments galled and ...
( Category: Classics March 9,2018 )
We the Living by AYN RAND
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:AYN RAND [RAND, AYN]

He could forgive her the words, for he had forgotten them, when he saw her exhausted, breathing jerkily, her eyes closed, her head limp in the curve of his arm. ...
( Category: Classics March 9,2018 )
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman With the Red Army by Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor; Luba Vinogradova
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor; Luba Vinogradova

‘When Germans had pushed us right back to the Volga, their sub-machine-gunners were shouting: “Rus, glug-glug!” And we shouted back: “Hey, come here, you’re thirsty, aren’t you?”’13 Soldiers burned to ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 9,2018 )
The Vorkosigan Companion by Lillian Stewart Carl
mobi |eng | 2008-12-02 | Author:Lillian Stewart Carl

The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance Kerrie Hughes, John Helfers, and Ed Burkhead The following abbreviations are used to denote where the defined term appeared in the Vorkosigan Saga novels: B:Barrayar BA:Brothers ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 9,2018 )
Dark Star: A Novel by Alan Furst
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-07-09 | Author:Alan Furst

The car was empty, the passenger door ajar as it had been left. It would make, Szara thought, at least a hiding place, and he directed Baumann to lie flat ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 9,2018 )
Armadale by Wilkie Collins & John Sutherland
epub |eng | 1866-01-02 | Author:Wilkie Collins & John Sutherland [Collins, Wilkie & Sutherland, John]

IV. ALLAN AT BAY. Two o'clock came; and Pedgift Junior, punctual to his time, came with it. His vivacity of the morning had all sparkled out; he greeted Allan with ...
( Category: Mystery March 9,2018 )
Fantasy: The 101 Best Books by Moorcock Michael & Cawthorn James
epub |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Moorcock, Michael & Cawthorn, James

[1937] 52 WILLIAM SLOANE To Walk the Night There are authors who may not have written much but what they have written refuses to be forgotten. William Milligan Sloane, while ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 8,2018 )
Fantasy: The 101 Best Books by Michael Moorcock & James Cawthorn
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-30 | Author:Michael Moorcock & James Cawthorn [Moorcock, Michael]

[1937] 52 WILLIAM SLOANE To Walk the Night There are authors who may not have written much but what they have written refuses to be forgotten. William Milligan Sloane, while ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 8,2018 )
The End of Tether by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 1902-03-08 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

Chapter 11 Sterne crossed the deck upon the track of the chief engineer. Jack, the second, retreating backwards down the engine-room ladder, and still wiping his hands, treated him to ...
( Category: British & Irish March 8,2018 )
Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
epub |eng | 2009-11-19 | Author:Chrétien de Troyes [Troyes, Chrétien de]

THE KNIGHT WITH THE LION (YVAIN) ARTHUR, the good king of Britain whose valour teaches us to be brave and courteous, held a court of truly royal splendour at that ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 8,2018 )
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen by Ramya Sreenivasan
epub |eng | 2007-03-07 | Author:Ramya Sreenivasan

Tod and His Sources: Padmini for Colonial Rajasthan Tod’s cited sources for compiling the history of Rajasthan in the Annals encourage us to explore what he may have borrowed from ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 7,2018 )
Several Strangers by Claire Tomalin
epub |eng | 2008-10-20 | Author:Claire Tomalin

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow: What are brief? today and tomorrow: What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth: What are deep? the ocean and truth. And if she repeatedly ...
( Category: British & Irish March 7,2018 )
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
epub |rus | | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

A selection of slips—some handwritten, some cut from books, some printed—for the word mechnical, which would have been housed in the Scriptorium pigeonholes, waiting to be examined, considered and finally ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 7,2018 )
Making the Monster by Kathryn Harkup
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Harkup

Working conditions for Victor must have been nearly unbearable and it is no surprise that Mary glossed over the gory details. Victor’s own description of the work as ‘filthy’ must ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 7,2018 )

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