Literary
epub |eng | 2010-02-14 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XXVI. THE KESWICK POET. Infinite difficulties were now complicating themselves on the head of poor Daniel Thwaite. The packet which the Countess addressed to him did not reach him ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

My own dearest Rachel, It seems so nice having to write to you, though it would be much nicer if I could see you and be sitting with you at ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-02-01 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

'And what has it all come to?' said Alaric, whom the question of M'Buffer's temporary prosperity made rather thoughtful. 'Well, not so bad either; he has had his fling for ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER XIV. MR WHITTLESTAFF IS GOING OUT TO DINNER. "There's an invitation come, asking us to dine at Little Alresford to-day." This was said, soon after breakfast, by Mr Whittlestaff ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER II. 'EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS.' But there arose a trouble greater than that occasioned by the 'Broughton Gazette.' There came out an article in a London weekly newspaper, called 'Everybody's Business,' ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

XXVII Now eve, with western shadows long, 660 Floated on Katrine bright and strong, When Roderick, with a chosen few, Repassed the heights of Benvenue. Above the Goblin-cave they go, ...
( Category: Poetry December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CANTO FOURTH.—THE CAMP. I. Eustace, I said, did blithely mark The first notes of the merry lark. The lark sang shrill, the cock he crew, And loudly Marmion's bugles blew, ...
( Category: World December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-09 | Author:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

The commander sighed, thought a moment, and said in a loud voice: "I am thinking of going to see Alexandra Yevgrafovna. I must call on her. Well, good-bye. I shall ...
( Category: Historical Mystery December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-12 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

"How?" "Oh, nothing! but if I wasn't afraid of prosing, I might tell another story about an old boot in a pieman's loft, contracting there between sun and oven an ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"`I thank the goodness and the grace That on my birth have smiled. And perched me on this curious place, A happy English child.' "Dr. Emerson Eames having briefly complied, ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1965-03-18 | Author:Tyler, Anne [Tyler, Anne]

8 On Tuesday morning, Mr Pike was the second person awake. He arrived in the kitchen wearing his work clothes and carrying a nylon mesh cap, and when he sat ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-04 | Author:Tyler, Anne [Tyler, Anne]

So he slept on the porch, on the heavy, flattened cushions in the wooden swing. Not just one night, but all week. Evie would lie awake until midnight or so, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Shange, Ntozake & Bayeza, Ifa

16 At first when faced with the funerals, the two diminutive caskets set in the middle of the room, Elma found comfort in the collection of old women mourners from ...
( Category: United States December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-10 | Author:Irwin Shaw [Shaw, Irwin]

CHAPTER 2 1964 Even pregnant as she was, Jean insisted upon coming down and having breakfast with him every day. “At the end of the day,” she said, “I want ...
( Category: Literary December 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-09 | Author:Vivek Shanbhag & Srinath Perur

I didn’t put up a fight when the family began efforts to get me married. None of my attempts at romance had gone anywhere. It was only Chitra with whom ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )