Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

It was the language of nature, and arose from the heart of the deprived mother, as it did from that gifted imaginative poet while furnishing with appropriate expressions the ideal ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-16 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Walter, Sir]

CHAPTER XVIII. Sir, stay at home and take an old man's counsel; Seek not to bask you by a stranger's hearth; Our own blue smoke is warmer than their fire. ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Louis de Bernières [Louis de Bernières]

( Category: British & Irish March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-28 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)]

* * * Miss Mapp had been tempted when she went home that morning, after enjoying the autumn tints, to ask Diva to lunch with her, but remembered in time ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)]

Reggie was still discussing, or rather enunciating, truths or untruths on the chances of Orme, and Lady Hayes's words did not reach him. But Lady Hayes was accustomed to demand ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:E. F. Benson [Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)]

text decoration THIRTEENTH BY Monday morning when he returned to town, Philip had quite made up his mind that all thought of travel by way of distraction was futile, and ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1993-08-01 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

XII The Daguerreotypist IT must not be supposed that the life of a personage naturally so active as Phoebe could be wholly confined within the precincts of the old Pyncheon ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Stephen Crane [Crane, Stephen]

II When Peter and Alek had said good-bye, the old man turned back in the rocky field and shaped a slow course towards that high dim light which marked the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

Chapter 5. The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd Basil Grant had comparatively few friends besides myself; yet he was the reverse of an unsociable man. He would talk to any ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-07-09 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

And he waved his burning cigar before him in the darkness, making irregular squares so rapidly that Flambeau really seemed to see them as fiery hieroglyphics upon the darkness—hieroglyphics such ...
( Category: Mystery March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-01 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)]

"Whoever made it, who is wiser, and we hope better than we, made it under strange limitations, and with painful conditions of pleasure. "In the first and darkest of its ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-13 | Author:Fiodor Dostoievski [Dostoievski, Fiodor]

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" The lady was rolling from side to side with laughter. "Oh, dear, I shall have hysterics! Oh, how funny he is!" "Yes, yes! Ha-ha-ha! Khee-khee-khee! He is funny and ...
( Category: Short Stories March 3,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:J. R. Rain

* * * Reggie stood and dusted himself off. He was quite certain that someone, or something, had appeared out of nowhere. He had just spotted the full-grown man in ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-09 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton Payne, Robert Translated and with an Introduction by ]

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-09-01 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

She had remained thoughtful, letting her deep motionless eyes rest on the streaming jumble of traffic. Suddenly she said: “And I wanted to ask you . . . I was ...
( Category: Classics March 3,2018 )