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The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | 1997-07-01 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

CHAPTER IX Mr Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2007-10-13 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XLII. JOHN KENNEBY GOES TO HAMWORTH. When John Kenneby dined with his sister and brother-in-law on Christmas-day he agreed, at the joint advice of the whole party there assembled, ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

‘I hope they will be kind words,’ she said. ‘As we are to part so soon, there should be none unkind spoken.’ ‘I do not know much about kindness,’ he ...
( Category: Anthologies March 3,2018 )
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

"Her heart it is another's, she—never—can—be—mine;" and to laugh at the end of the song. "Well, well," says he; "it is a very kind note, a very proper little note; ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 3,2018 )
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

* * * This was the story told by Madame de Liliengarten, and the reader will have no difficulty in drawing from it that part which affected myself and my ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2005-12-01 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

5 THE DANCE Maria had no real licence for San Gaudenzio, yet the peasants always called for wine. It is easy to arrange in Italy. The penny is paid another ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 3,2018 )
The Schoolmistress, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
epub |eng | 2006-02-22 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

THE FIRST-CLASS PASSENGER A FIRST-CLASS passenger who had just dined at the station and drunk a little too much lay down on the velvet-covered seat, stretched himself out luxuriously, and ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )
Grammar of motives, by Burke Kenneth 1897-1993
mobi |eng | 1945-03-03 | Author:Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993. [Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.]

less" would be all that was left to serve as the dialectical counterpart, or "ground," of a concept so comprehensive. No, that is not the only recourse here. Another was ...
( Category: Philosophy March 3,2018 )
Looking Forward by Looking Forward
azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Looking Forward

On the wall in the conference room, a large portrait appears. Below the frame Scott reads the words of the scientist that founded this laboratory in 2014: Our society is ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 3,2018 )
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Blackwood Algernon
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Blackwood, Algernon

VII A wall of silence wrapped them in, for the snow, though not thick, was sufficient to deaden any noise, and the frost held things pretty tight besides. No sound ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-04 | Author:Thomas Nashe

Her dainty limbs tinsel her silk soft sheets, Her rose-crown’d cheeks eclipse my dazzled sight; Oh glass, with too much joy my thoughts thou greets, And yet thou showest me ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
Crime and Punishment (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER SIX “I DON’T BELIEVE IT, I can’t believe it!” repeated Razumikhin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov’s arguments. They were by now approaching Bakaleyev’s lodgings, where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
Civil War (Penguin Ancient Classics) by Lucan
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Lucan,

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
Selected Speeches (Oxford World's Classics) by Demosthenes
mobi |eng | 2014-05-07 | Author:Demosthenes

1 It is unclear whether the term probolē refers to the whole process, including the trial, or merely the preliminary hearing before the Assembly. In the latter case the plaintiff ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature March 1,2018 )
The Complete Odes (Oxford World's Classics) by Pindar & Anthony Verity & Stephen Instone
mobi |eng | 2007-07-11 | Author:Pindar & Anthony Verity & Stephen Instone

acceptable to the lord of the many-clouded sky, and I shall pass it on to these voices and to the lyre. It will be a pleasing labour to adorn this ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 1,2018 )

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