Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Scott

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head. AS YOU LIKE IT. From a ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-23 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

CHAPTER XXVII MYTHS After the sculptor’s arrival, however, the young Count sometimes came down from his forlorn elevation, and rambled with him among the neighboring woods and hills. He led ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Gaston Leroux [Leroux, Gaston]

CHAPTER XIV "I Expect the Assassin This Evening" "I must take you," said Rouletabille, "so as to enable you to understand, to the various scenes. I myself believe that I ...
( Category: Mystery January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1917-01-23 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

Chapter 9 My feelings were as mixed as a crushed nut sundae. So the Professor hadn't gone to Brooklyn after all! What did he mean by prowling after me like ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1916-01-23 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

THE PRODIGAL FATHER I. But on this morning, before the rush of custom began, his appearance at the store, while it did not cause a riot, was sufficiently startling to ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 23,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1912-01-23 | Author:Maurice Leblanc [Leblanc, Maurice]

There was a pause, after he had read this, a long pause during which each of them drew a mental picture of the tragic escape. So, three or four centuries ...
( Category: Literary January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1905-01-23 | Author:Meredith Nicholson [Nicholson, Meredith]

Chapter 16 THE PASSING OF OLIVIA Bates brought a great log and rolled it upon exactly the right spot on the andirons, and a great constellation of sparks thronged up ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1768-01-01 | Author:Laurence Sterne [Sterne, Laurence]

40 THE PASSPORT. PARIS. When I got home to my hotel, La Fleur told me I had been enquired after by the Lieutenant de Police.—The deuce take it! said I,—I ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Vince Flynn [Flynn, Vince]

26 WASHINGTON, DC Stu Garret exited the Willard lobby onto Pennsylvania Avenue and turned immediately to his left. It was five to seven in the morning. He was tired and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-12-05 | Author:To the Lighthouse [Lighthouse, To the]

18 As usual, Lily thought. There was always something that had to be done at that precise moment, something that Mrs. Ramsay had decided for reasons of her own to ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-05 | Author:Jacob's Room [Room, Jacob's]

Let us consider letters--how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized by the postmark--for to see one's own envelope on another's ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Act of Treason

26 WASHINGTON, DC Stu Garret exited the Willard lobby onto Pennsylvania Avenue and turned immediately to his left. It was five to seven in the morning. He was tired and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-05 | Author:The Waves

O western wind . . . O western wind, you are at enmity with my mahogany table and spats, and also, alas, with the vulgarity of my mistress, the little ...
( Category: Classics January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Mihail Sebastian

The afternoon passed and the chalet didn’t appear. We should have got there a long time ago, Nora thought. Her boots felt heavy on her feet and she had the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950)

Chapter2 That was a good little ship--staunch and swift, as are all the ships of the Black Pirates of Barsoom--and it carried us past the farthest camp fires before it ...
( Category: Literary January 22,2019 )