Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

… THE TELL When John Cullinane lived in Chicago he attended Catholic mass occasionally and funerals rather often, but whenever he worked overseas he tried to attend local Catholic churches ...
( Category: Jewish January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:White, T. H. [White, T. H.]

Chapter VIII The plain of Bedegraine was a forest of pavilions. They looked like old–fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. Some of them were even striped ...
( Category: Historical January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

CHAPTER XIX When I was with people who did not drink, I never thought of drinking. Louis did not drink. Neither he nor I could afford it; but, more significant ...
( Category: Authors January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

'Charles from Knapwater House brought it,' she said. 'Miss Aldclyffe's writing,' said Mr. Springrove, before Edward had recognized it himself. 'Now 'tis all right; she's going to make an offer; ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage January 9,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

Chapter XVII She slept all night, without stirring, without dreaming, and awoke naturally and, for the first time in weeks, refreshed. She felt her old self, as if some depressing ...
( Category: War & Military January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

VI. A quick arrested expression in her two sapphirine eyes, accompanied by a little, a very little, blush which loitered long, was all the outward disturbance that the sight of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-05-21 | Author:Michael Dibdin [Dibdin, Michael]

LUCCA The warm evening light washed down, its heat glowing back up off the worn flagstones where four boys were playing football. Couples and clusters of locals stood about gossiping ...
( Category: Police Procedurals January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scottoline, Lisa [Scottoline, Lisa]

28 Kovich studied the criminalistics report, resting it against the steering wheel of the car, which idled at the curb. Temple students going to class flowed in front of the ...
( Category: Murder January 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

* * * [107] Byway means, in this instance, "here we are". CHAPTER III. Father Wyszoniek feared that even at Jurand's next awakening, he might be stupefied and might not ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-03 | Author:Sienkiewicz, Henryk [Sienkiewicz, Henryk]

Chapter XXXIV Ok a certain calm night a band of horsemen, about twenty in number, moved along the right bank of the Valadinka in the direction of the Dniester. They ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Scott, Sir Walter [Scott, Sir Walter]

Chapter III A Conference and the Consequence Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his practical good ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]

Yesterday was Beautiful He bent down and rubbed his ankle where it had been sprained with the walking so that he couldn’t see the ankle bone. Then he straightened up ...
( Category: Anthologies January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

I have this day ordered the American irrigation engineer John Pritchard to be transported to the hospital in Kandahar, so that medical attention unavailable here may be given his badly ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Stephens, James [Stephens, James]

XIX The name of the woman from next door was Mrs. Cafferty. She was big and round, and when she walked her dress whirled about her like a tempest. She ...
( Category: Coming of Age January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:John Buchan

CHAPTER XVII The Brink of the Rubicon The next evening Wratislaw drove in a hired dogcart up Glenavelin from Gledsmuir just as a stormy autumn twilight was setting in over ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )