mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-28 | Author:P. D. James

2 Tuesday morning promised to be a pleasant day with even the hope of autumn sunshine. Wilkinson, the coachman, had a well-deserved reputation for forecasting the weather and two days ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Anne Perry

allin attended the morning rehearsal the following day. Now he was quite open about his suggestions, and Alice was eager to adapt them. Douglas seemed less displeased, and Caroline noticed ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-10-31 | Author:Ken Follett

CHAPTER TWO APRIL 1 THE MUSIC HALL was as hot as a Turkish bath. The air smelled of beer, shellfish and unwashed people. Onstage a young woman dressed in elaborate ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-03-15 | Author:Ian McEwan

PART TWO THERE WERE HORRORS enough, but it was the unexpected detail that threw him and afterward would not let him go. When they reached the level crossing, after a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Kate Summerscale

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November-December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Kate Summerscale

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November-December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...

epub |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Les Standiford [Les Standiford]

11. You fear the world too much,” Ebenezer Scrooge’s fiancée tells him when she breaks off their engagement. “All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

She hated doing it. She was actually trembling as she stood at the front door and reached for the brass-headed bell pull, but she could not afford to wait any ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Begg, Paul & Bennett, John [Begg, Paul]

Though not named in print on this occasion, the ‘queen’s physician’ in 1888 was Sir William Gull. Apparently, on the evening of the day he lunched with Stowell Wilson met ...

epub |eng | | Author:POUND, EZRA

III EMOTION AND POESY Obviously, it is not easy to be a great poet. If it were, many more people would have done so. At no period in history has ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Fay Weldon [Weldon, Fay]

Grace at Brown’s Wednesday 8th November onwards, 1899 Grace, at her Ladyship’s pleasure, had been loaned – ‘as if I was some slave’ – to the O’Briens, with instructions to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

* * * THE BLACKMAILING OF THE EMPEROR * * * 'As soon as the man was dead the Emperor turned to me, and when he had wiped away the ...