History & Criticism
epub | | 1986-05-31 | Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Hawkins, Paula [Hawkins, Paula]

EVENING I stayed in bed most of the day. I tried to get things straight in my head. I tried to piece together, from the memories and the flashbacks and ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:Ken Follett [Follett, Ken]

44 Gilbert Hereford was tried before the ecclesiastical court, found guilty and sentenced, by Prior Godwyn, to an appropriate punishment for those who robbed churches: he would be flayed alive. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Lee, Child [Lee, Child]

Chapter 36 The neighbor was a noble old bird, thin and faded, but animated. She seemed to be on the ball. Like many of her generation she tended toward courtesy, ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-01 | Author:O'Connor, Flannery [O'Connor, Flannery]

V KEEPING close to his side of the hedge, he crept through the dark damp grass toward the street. The night was close and very still. A light went on ...
( Category: Literary November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Colbert, Stephen [Colbert, Stephen]

( Category: Humor November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Weir, Andy [Weir, Andy]

Chapter 16 Martinez: Dr. Shields says I need to write personal messages to each of the crew. She says it’ll keep me tethered to humanity. I think it’s bullshit. But ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-08 | Author:Brown, Pierce [Brown, Pierce]

The priest ushers us through the temple’s mouth, where we wait, kneeling on a black stone antechamber inside the mountain. The stone mouth grinds closed behind us. Flames dance in ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Carol Shields [Shields, Carol]

Nobody Needs to Know Mary J. Breen I started out as a nine-month secret. It was 1944, and my mother at forty-one discovered she was pregnant with me, her first ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:S. B. Sheeran [Sheeran, S. B.]

Chapter 5 The next interaction between the two came over a week later. Jane and Ashley had kept in constant contact through text message and had even gone jogging one ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER VIII. TALKING WITH THE GHOST IT warn't very cheerful at breakfast. Aunt Sally she looked old and tired and let the children snarl and fuss at one another and ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARING LAKE WE had an early breakfast in the morning, and set looking down on the desert, and the weather was ever so bammy and lovely, although ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

* * * CONCERNING THE JEWS Some months ago I published a magazine article[1] descriptive of a remarkable scene in the Imperial Parliament in Vienna. Since then I have received ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

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( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

Chapter XIX. The Prince with the peasants. When the King awoke in the early morning, he found that a wet but thoughtful rat had crept into the place during the ...
( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )