Classics
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Jean Giono

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS TRANSLATION has been a labor of love and the focus of my creative life for a number of years. Without the involvement of many others, it would never ...
( Category: Surrealism May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

cried Bracebridge, laughing. At the sound of his voice, the bark was changed into a yelp of delight, and in a moment he was surrounded and almost overpowered by the ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy May 11,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-07 | Author:Ernesto Sabato [Sábato, Ernesto]

XVIII Every day my interrogations – about María’s silences, the look in her eyes, her hesitant words, her love affairs, a visit to the estancia – grew more intense and ...
( Category: Classics April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

2 The Miser In February Bishop Latour once more set out on horseback over the Santa Fé trail, this time with Rome as his objective. He was absent for nearly ...
( Category: Classics March 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-25 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

In the Penal Colony ‘It is a strange piece of equipment,’ said the officer to the travelling researcher, and with a certain air of admiration he surveyed the equipment with ...
( Category: German February 15,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

THREE I LEFT HER AT the nearest corner, mumbling some schoolboy excuse, and watched her stolid figure cross the boulevard towards the cafes. I did not know what to do ...
( Category: Urban February 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * BOOK III. THE CHOICE. The Vision touched him on the lips and said: Hereafter thou shalt eat me in thy bread, Drink me in all thy kisses, ...
( Category: Linguistics January 21,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * VI * * * On the way home, in the first drop of his exaltation, Durham had said to himself: "But why on earth should Bessy invite ...
( Category: Anthologies January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-31 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XIV. So Tracy went home to supper. The odors in that supper room seemed more strenuous and more horrible than ever before, and he was happy in the thought ...
( Category: Satire January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-31 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

The asseveration of the marine was interrupted by Griffith, whose blood had sensibly cooled, and whose generous feelings were awakened in behalf of his comrades, now that his own fate ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2002-05-31 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

* Pulgar, Cronica de los Reyes Catholicos. The main body of the army was led by the king in person. It was divided into numerous battalions, each commanded by some ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Mitchell [Mitchell, Margaret]

“Gone With the Wind” By Margaret Mitchell 285 no-counts like the MacIntoshes, they can vote. And they’re runnin’ things now. And if they want to come down on you for ...
( Category: Historical January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The Three Golden Apples Did you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great ...
( Category: Greek & Roman January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

V Father Hector Saint–Cyr was not long in following his messenger. On the day of his arrival in Kebec he stopped at the apothecary shop, but, Auclair being out, he ...
( Category: Historical January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

The Pomegranate Seeds Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, ...
( Category: Classics January 8,2016 )