Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2016-09-06 | Author:Stuart McLean [McLean, Stuart]

Morley was the last one home that night. She walked in through the back door. The house was unusually quiet. And unusually dark. All the curtains were closed. It was ...
( Category: Humor & Satire December 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

Chapter 2 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 ...
( Category: Fantasy December 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-05-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor]

XII The Grandmother was in an impatient, irritable frame of mind. Without doubt the roulette had turned her head, for she appeared to be indifferent to everything else, and, in ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-08 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

With forty-five O's in the last word: even at that distance you might have cut the soft South Irish accent with a shovel. 'For all we take we must pay, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

* * * CHAPTER V. THE THREE AMERICAN NOVELS. The prospect of official station and emolument which Hawthorne mentions in one of those paragraphs from his Journals which I have ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

III He sat there a good while: there was a great deal of talk; it was all pitched in a key of expression and emphasis rather new to him. Every ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:James Hogg [Hogg, James]

But just as they were ready to set out, when their spurs were buckled on and their horses bridled, Andrew Johnston, their father's confidential servant, arrived from the place to ...
( Category: Action & Adventure December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-02-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

‘Need I wait, sir?’ said the servant after a dead silence. ‘That will do, William. No answer,’ said Barnet calmly. When the man had gone Barnet re-read the letter. Turning ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

DAME THE FIFTH—THE LADY ICENWAY By the Churchwarden In the reign of His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, Defender of the Faith and of the American Colonies, there ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER IV It was on a soft, dark evening of the following week that they engaged in the adventure. Tina was to meet her at a point in the highway ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-04 | Author:R. D. Blackmore [Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)]

361.jpg None Can Tell What the Labour Was Of the sheep upon the mountain, and the sheep upon the western farm, and the cattle on the upper barrows, scarcely one ...
( Category: Classics December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-03 | Author:D. H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)]

When Alvina came downstairs at about four in the afternoon she found a package: a comb of carved bone, and a message from Madame: "To Miss Houghton, with kindest greetings ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-01 | Author:O. Henry [Henry, O.]

Letter to whom it may concern This and the following letter were the credentials that the boy Will Porter brought along from North Carolina to Texas. Letter—a young man of ...
( Category: Action & Adventure 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 )