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The Iliad of Homer by Homer
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-11-03 | 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 March 6,2018 )
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:H. G. Wells [Wells, H. G.]

Chapter 17 The “Thunder Child” HAD THE MARTIANS AIMED only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 6,2018 )
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

XXVII I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman’s response to the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the pavement of ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXIV. A Rival Magician. MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Charlotte Bronte [Bronte, Charlotte]

And had there been anything in the garret? What did they discover? I believe, on the closest examination, their discoveries amounted to very little. They talked, at first, of the ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Emily Dickinson [Dickinson, Emily]

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: Poetry March 6,2018 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Sojourner Truth [Truth, Sojourner]

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 6,2018 )
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]

The Epilogue “Ey! goddes mercy!” seyde our Hoste tho, “Now swich a wyf I pray god kepe me fro! Lo, whiche sleightes and subtilitees In wommen been! for ay as ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE Just to give you an idea of the immense variety of the Jungle Law, I have translated into verse (Baloo always recited them in a ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Anne Bronte [Bronte, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

14 A Young Rajah The moor was hidden in mist when the morning came, and the rain had not stopped pouring down. There could be no going out of doors. ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
Selected Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 6,2018 )
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
epub |eng | 2010-09-02 | Author:Edith Wharton [Wharton, Edith]

20 “OF COURSE WE MUST dine with Mrs. Carfry, dearest,” Archer said; and his wife looked at him with an anxious frown across the monumental Britannia ware of their lodging-house ...
( Category: Classics March 6,2018 )
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
epub |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois [Bois, W. E. B. Du]

VIII Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece1 But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 6,2018 )
Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Mark Twain [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 March 6,2018 )

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