Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:George Eliot [Eliot, George]

The very practical views of the peasants with regard to the demands of the people were in amusing contrast with the abstract theorizing of the educated townsmen. The peasant continually ...
( Category: Victorian March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Samanta Schweblin

( Category: Short Stories March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Andrew Lang

VII. THE VOICES OF JEANNE D'ARC Some of our old English historians write of Jeanne d'Arc, the Pucelle, as 'the Puzel.' The author of the 'First Part of Henry VI.,' ...
( Category: Short Stories March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 1990-07-15 | Author:Richard Lederer

29. the fleshy pad just below the thumb uvula 30. the hollow area at the back of the knee vomer (Answers on page 212) FEAR OF PHOBIAS Do you have ...
( Category: Puns & Wordplay March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Siouxzi Connor

Venturing from the river under the nurturing coat of night, following the intensifying scent of smoke. After seemingly endless tracts of forest, finally ruins of two small wooden houses sprung ...
( Category: Letters March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nicholson Baker

7 Mean? Yes, he is mean. He seems at times to admire meanness — I’m thinking, for instance, of that puzzling sentence of his that always appears on Anne Tyler ...
( Category: Medieval March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Rachel Kramer Bussel

MAGIC WORDS Emily Bingham When I hear the front door being pulled shut and locked, then the noise of a car pulling away, I know it’s time. In preparation for ...
( Category: Anthologies March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Algernon Blackwood [Blackwood, Algernon]

2 And, having settled this, his one desire now was to travel over the map upon journeys of exploration and discovery. The map inside himself he knew already, but the ...
( Category: Occult March 12,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

FLUSH OF GOLD Lon McFane was a bit grumpy, what of losing his tobacco pouch, or else he might have told me, before we got to it, something about the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-27 | Author:Guy de Maupassant [Maupassant, Guy de]

ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES, Vol. 7. GUY DE MAUPASSANT ORIGINAL SHORT STORIES Translated by ALBERT M. C. McMASTER, B.A. A. E. HENDERSON, B.A. MME. QUESADA and Others VOLUME VII. THE FALSE ...
( Category: French March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

BEHIND THE TIMES My first interview with Dr. James Winter was under dramatic circumstances. It occurred at two in the morning in the bedroom of an old country house. I ...
( Category: Medical March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Andrew MacRae [MacRae, Andrew]

The Case of the Silver Suspect A voice both familiar and unwelcome greeted Detective First Grade Kelly Stone as he entered the coroner’s lab in the basement of police headquarters. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Stephen Romer [Romer, Stephen]

Deshoulières HIS name was Deshoulières and he didn’t like it. In this he was wrong, for it was doubtless in large part his name, and the banalities associated with it, ...
( Category: French March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kay Allenbaugh

( Category: Specific Groups March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rafael Sabatini

Chapter 5 THE SNARE Messer Baldassare Scipione stepped out into the lane, and closed the green gate by which he had issued from his lady’s garden. He stood a moment ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 11,2020 )