Classics
epub |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Poe, Edgar Allan [Poe, Edgar Allan]

Never Bet the Devil Your Head First published : 1841 “Con tal que las costumbres de un autor,” says Don Thomas de las Torres, in the preface to his “Amatory ...
( Category: Short Stories April 29,2019 )
epub, pdf |por | 0101-01-01 | Author:S. Y. Agnon [Agnon, S. Y.]

C H A P T E R E I G H T E E N Encounter on the Road 1 | Balak sat wherever it was he sat and laughed ...
( Category: Classics April 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 1938-02-10 | Author:Heyer, Georgette [Heyer, Georgette]

* * * Chapter Nine Sergeant Hemingway left Greystones in a thoughtful mood. An exhaustive search had failed to discover the hiding-place of any weapon, but one fact had emerged ...
( Category: Police Procedurals April 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 1935-02-10 | Author:Heyer, Georgette [Heyer, Georgette]

Chapter Thirteen A slice of bread and butter dropped from Violet's fingers on to the floor. Leslie, seated beside her, heard her say numbly: 'But he's dead. They said he ...
( Category: Classics April 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 1969-04-06 | Author:Chopin, Kate; Seyersted, Per;

IV The boy felt no little astonishment when he made Suzima’s acquaintance in her official capacity of a fortune teller. It was a sunny afternoon and they had halted at ...
( Category: United States April 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-25 | Author:Jozef Wittlin [Jozef Wittlin]

Chapter Seven The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was, as the name indicates, made up of the countries represented in the Viennese parliament, namely Austria and Hungary—that is to say, the lands of ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXXI WE NOW PREPARED for a considerable walk,—from Lucerne to Interlaken, over the Brünig Pass. But at the last moment the weather was so good that I changed my ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER 15 Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Behold, the fool saith, ‘Put not all thine eggs in the one basket’—which is but a manner of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER IV I had been having considerable trouble with my wings. The day after I helped the choir I made a dash or two with them, but was not lucky. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-12 | Author:Elsa Morante

The Midwife This Fortunata had practiced her profession of midwife on Procida for more than thirty years; among the women in labor assisted by her was my mother. I blamed ...
( Category: Magical Realism March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Honore de Balzac

END OF VOLUME ONE THE SECOND TEN TALES (Continued) THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON WHEN, for the last time, came Master Francis Rabelais to the court of ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:Nelson Algren

On Sunday morning the early flushing of the thundermug in tank ten would waken the deputy’s family, where they slept directly below, on that one morning of the week when ...
( Category: Classics February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper

Paris, September, 1832. Chapter I “My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.” Gray. * * * NO AMERICAN can ...
( Category: War February 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miguel De Cervantes

The Generous Lover * "O lamentable ruins of the ill-fated Nicosia,[76] still moist with the blood of your valorous and unfortunate defenders! Were you capable of feeling, we might jointly ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-24 | Author:Miguel Cervantes [Cervantes, Miguel]

The Jealous Extremaduran Not many years ago a gentleman born of noble parents set out from a village in Extremadura, and like a second Prodigal Son went off through various ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 8,2018 )