Classics
epub |eng | 2019-10-27 | Author:Cyril Connolly

VI RASCASSE was already painting. 'Well, well, the last sitting. Let's get down to it. This is going to be a great picture. Just let me put in those lines ...
( Category: Classics October 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Theodor Fontane [Fontane, Theodor]

20 Servants with lanterns were already waiting and they moved forward when the Princess started to ascend the broad staircase that divided into twin flights at the first landing. She ...
( Category: German October 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:Jorge Amado [Amado, Jorge]

8 At day’s end, as the lights were going on in the city and men were leaving work, Quincas Water-Bray’s closest friends—Sparrow, Bangs Blackie, Corporal Martim, and Swifty—were going down ...
( Category: Humor October 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-18 | Author:John Bude [Bude, John]

CHAPTER XII THE OPEN WINDOW WHEN the Inspector re-entered Greylings he found Mrs. Cowper clearing away the tea-things in the kitchen. The Constable had his feet up before the range ...
( Category: Murder October 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Thomas Mallon [Mallon, Thomas]

Meanwhile, over fried sausages, red-apple rings, fried potatoes, fried chicken, fried onions, in the coffee-shop of the old hotel, the poets who were still on schedule were relenting somewhat toward ...
( Category: Classics October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1992-10-07 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers

Ignoring the generous fraction of genius, Poe angrily attacked Lowell’s poem in the Southern Literary Messenger of March 1849. He justified his learned discourse on metrics and, appealing to Southern ...
( Category: Authors October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-17 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist

SCENE 9 Scene: Berlin. A pleasure garden in front of the old castle. In the background, the castle church with a front staircase. Bells are ringing. The church is brightly ...
( Category: Classics October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:J D Salinger [Salinger, J D]

( Category: Short Stories October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-02 | Author:Charles Wright

Eleven MORNING CAME as I knew it would: gray with rain. Cooing pigeons and doves. The smell of bacon grease and burnt toast and powerful black Negro coffee, spiced with ...
( Category: Urban October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H.P.]

The Lippitt Mansion on Hope Street, Providence, from The Providence Plantations for 250 Years (1886), by Welcome Arnold Greene. The Roulets, it seemed, had come in 1696 from East Greenwich,41 ...
( Category: Anthologies October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Charles W. Chesnutt

“Co’se Brer Dan couldn’ do nuffin. He knowed it wa’n’t no use, but he clumb up on de chimbly en got down de go’ds en bottles en yuther cunjuh fixin’s, ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 16,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-02-12 | Author:Washington Irving

Christmas Eve Saint Fran­cis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the gob­lin, That is hight good fel­low Robin; Keep it from all evil ...
( Category: Short Stories September 16,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-31 | Author:Charles W Eliot (ed) [Eliot, Charles W]

( Category: Astronomy September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

A MATTER OF PREJUDICE Madame Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave’s birthday party. They carried her big rocking-chair from the back gallery, ...
( Category: United States September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Ilango Adigal [Adigal, Ilango]

CANTO SIXTEEN THE SITE OF AGONY Kolaikkalakkadai Madari, the cowherdess, had joyfully taken charge of the frail Kannaki. In the sheltered cottage to which she led her, cowgirls lived who ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 5,2019 )