Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-25 | Author:Baroness Orczy

VII. Out Of The Jaws Of Death Being a fragment from the diary of Valentine Lemercier, in the possession of her great-granddaughter. We were such a happy family before this ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-10-25 | Author:Baroness Orczy

Chapter XV. Detected The opening and shutting of the door roused them both from their dreams. Anne Mie, pale, trembling, with eyes looking wild and terrified, had glided into the ...
( Category: Classics August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Larry Niven [Niven, Larry]

"I dazzled him with sex appeal. Or maybe not. Rachel, shall I ask Curly about it? There might be something we don't know. Maybe you wear your hair wrong." Rachel ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

OLALLA ‘Now,’ said the doctor, ‘my part is done, and, I may say, with some vanity, well done. It remains only to get you out of this cold and poisonous ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:George MacDonald [MacDonald, George]

CHAPTER XXXIV. GLASHRUACH. As soon as Gibbie had found a stall for Crummie, and thrown a great dinner before her, he turned and sped back the way he had come: ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-31 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir]

II: THE RISE OF GIANT MAXIMIN Exactly twenty-five years had passed since the day that Theckla the huge Thracian peasant had turned into Maximin the Roman guardsman. They had not ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Knight, Angela [Angela, Knight,]

THREE Jack stared down at the pretty bare foot in his hands. Soft, pale skin. High, smooth arch. Webbed toes. They didn’t even look human. The connecting skin shimmered like ...
( Category: Werewolves & Shifters August 29,2017 )
epub, mobi | | 2000-07-31 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

The Country of the Saints On the Great Alkali Plain In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

"It is very much the sort of thing that I expected," said he. "Of course, we do not yet know what the relations may have been between Alec Cunningham, William ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-28 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]

* * * VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied ...
( Category: Mystery August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-12-01 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

CHAPTER XIV—Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France There were in this strange nature, depths so ...
( Category: Classics August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

Her amazement would indeed have been great if she had been told that she secretly shared his feeling. "It seems as if somehow you had never been dull," was her ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-18 | Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

CHAPTER XXVI "WHAT IT MUST BE TO YOU—JUST YOU!" G. Selden, awakening to consciousness two days later, lay and stared at the chintz covering of the top of his four-post ...
( Category: Classics August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Various [Various]

THE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELAND THERE was once upon a time a fisherman, who lived hard by a palace and fished for the King's table. One day he was out ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths August 29,2017 )
epub | | | Author:E.M. Forster

* * * * * * Other Kingdom "'Quem, whom; fugis, are you avoiding; ah demens, you silly ass; habitarunt di quoque, gods too have lived in; silvas, the woods.' ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 29,2017 )