Victorian
epub |eng | 2014-12-30 | Author:Michael Newton (ed) [Newton, Michael]

‘He began to play, and then all smiles ceased.’ ‘Indeed!’ cried the King. ‘Then I too would fain hear her. But stay with me, and I will send messengers all ...
( Category: Ghosts January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Mercedes Lackey

11 ELLIE had gotten all of the beds cleaned and restuffed with clean straw; she’d washed what passed for blankets, and everyone’s clothing, at least once. Odd, she had never ...
( Category: Victorian January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

'Certainly not, dearest,' I said soothingly. 'I wish I could solve the mystery,' he pursued, more excitedly; 'I would make somebody suffer for it! One's peace destroyed, and people terrified, ...
( Category: European January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:A S Byatt [Byatt, A S]

In the early days of that Autumn, as the activity in the nest died down, the book was brought to its end, and the pages, William’s science, William’s brooding, Miss ...
( Category: Victorian December 25,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-06 | Author:Johny Pitts

It seemed to me that the big challenge for Germany, being at the centre of the Eurozone, is to stop using the idea of multiculturalism as and when it sees ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies November 25,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nicholas Meyer

* * * When we looked out our window again, it was morning. The blizzard had stopped, and our two watchers had vanished. “They left hours ago,” Holmes declared, vigorously ...
( Category: Victorian October 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Bill Pronzini [Pronzini, Bill]

“Nineteen seventy-seven,” Kerry said. “Come on. The exact year?” “Want to make a little bet?” “You only looked at the photos for about two minutes.” “I don’t need any more ...
( Category: Victorian October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

The Nun Next day the Superior came to my cell accompanied by a nun carrying over her arm a hair-shirt and the coarse garment I had been dressed in when ...
( Category: French September 5,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-14 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

Monsieur B...’s diagnosis proved accurate. The fever abated, quelled finally by heavy sweating, and my recovery was no longer in doubt. I did indeed recover, but I had to convalesce ...
( Category: French September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-02 | Author:Maria Tumarkin

PART TWO I’ve heard Lorrie Moore say in a lecture she delivered at New York Public Library that parenting’s mostly useless: in the making of personhood the culprits are biochemistry ...
( Category: Victorian September 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

CHAPTER XLVII * * * Ernest returned to Cambridge for the May term of 1858, on the plea of reading for ordination, with which he was now face to face, ...
( Category: Victorian August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

A Wagner Matinée I RECEIVED one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and ...
( Category: Victorian August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-29 | Author:Paul Keegan [Keegan, Paul]

( Category: Renaissance August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-15 | Author:Catherine J Golden [Golden, Catherine J]

Surveying Forms of Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Fiction Amidst changing aesthetic tastes and advances in technology, the Victorian illustrated book did not die out at the end of the century; it evolved. ...
( Category: Victorian August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Nancy Atherton

Thirteen The fog was back on Monday morning, but my indefatigable children rose with the invisible sun. Having hit the sack early, Bill bounced out of bed, singing Christmas carols. ...
( Category: Victorian July 19,2019 )