Classics
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Booth Tarkington

Chapter VIII * * * THE DEVICE of the absentee partner has the defect that it cannot be employed for longer than ten or fifteen minutes at a time, and ...
( Category: Humorous September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-09 | Author:Barbara Heldt

First Voice: The yoke of Earth’s constraints She did not bear on Earth, Did not fall prey to doubt, Did not take fright in the battle. She loved sorrowfully and ...
( Category: Russian September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-08-14 | Author:Patrick Süskind [Süskind, Patrick]

Twenty-seven RETURNING home was pleasant! The double role of avenger and creator of worlds was not a little taxing, and then to be celebrated afterwards for hours on end by ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 15,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Theodore Dreiser

* * * A True Patriarch In the streets of a certain moderate-sized county seat in Missouri not many years ago might have been seen a true patriarch. Tall, white-haired, ...
( Category: Anthologies August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Gunter Grass [Grass, Gunter]

Chapter VIII The investigation dragged on, ruining our Saturday afternoon and bringing no results. I remember few details and those are hardly worth talking about, for I had to keep ...
( Category: European August 7,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Shikibu, Murasaki

Two monks “What could possibly prick your conscience this way? His Grace has never betrayed any such feelings. It has surprised and pained him to learn how ill you are, ...
( Category: Japanese August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

* * * Chapter XVI. Here, my friend, thou must permit me to pause. The following incidents are of a kind to which the most ardent invention has never conceived ...
( Category: Classics August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

CHAPTER XXVI. This conversation was interrupted by a messenger from my wife, who desired my return immediately. I had some hopes of meeting with Mervyn, some days having now elapsed ...
( Category: Gothic August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Songling Pu [Pu, Songling]

LXIX. THE PRINCESS OF THE TUNG-T‘ING LAKE. Ch‘ên Pi-chiao was a Pekingese; and being a poor man he attached himself as secretary to the suite of a high military official ...
( Category: Ghosts August 7,2019 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:J.G. Farrell

27 At first, there had been great enthusiasm over the Collector’s decision to suppress the rights of property in the food that was to have been auctioned and to give ...
( Category: War August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Tolstoy, Leo [Tolstoy, Leo]

CHAPTER VI Though Balashev was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury and magnificence of Napoleon's court. The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception ...
( Category: War August 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

A Wagner Matinée I RECEIVED one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and ...
( Category: Victorian August 3,2019 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Paul Bowles

Book Three * * * THE AGE OF MONSTERS XV In the night the wind veered and the weather changed, bringing a luminous sky and a bright moon. In his ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-19 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

I, DON JOSÉ DE ABOS AND PAPILLA. His Majesty’s Notary for the Royal Revenue, and Register of this Province, and Notary Public of the Holy Crusade of this Bishopric, etc. ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 1964-06-15 | Author:F Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F Scott]

M MOMENTS (WHAT PEOPLE DO) Dogs: We went through a routine, with a lot of false starts, charges, leg and throat holds, rolling over, and escapes. I only barked a ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )