World Literature
azw3 |eng | 2006-08-03 | Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]

XXXI ENGLISHMEN AND FRENCHMEN When the time came, they went with their lackeys behind the Luxembourg, to an enclosure abandoned to goats. Athos gave the goatherd a coin to keep ...
( Category: Classics January 26,2019 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

We suffered much, and made a narrow escape; but fortune befriended us, as well as our mates in the long-boat. We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 24,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lynda Cohen Loigman

Millie Springfield, Massachusetts (November 1942) The letter arrived in early November. It was the first piece of mail Millie had received since she’d moved. When she saw the return address, ...
( Category: Women's Fiction January 24,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-02 | Author:Susan Kay [Kay, Susan]

mered in the light of thousands of perfumed candles, all supported in glass candelabra, while within the company dined from a choice of three hundred dishes served on plates of ...
( Category: Historical January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 4 THE ORACLE OF RIMAC In this town of Quismancu I remained for seven days, going abroad but little, for when I did so the people pressed about me ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1894-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 22 THE TEMPLE OF JAL In considerable agitation of mind Leonard bid good-bye to Juanna, promising to return soon, and went to visit the Settlement men, whom he had ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:E. Phillips Oppenheim [Oppenheim, E. Phillips]

CHAPTER XXV IT CHANCED that a brilliant autumn brought a season of great prosperity to the Thetian wine-growers and farmers, and the year of Ughtred’s accession to the throne seemed ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense January 23,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Gaston Leroux [Leroux, Gaston]

CHAPTER XIV "I Expect the Assassin This Evening" "I must take you," said Rouletabille, "so as to enable you to understand, to the various scenes. I myself believe that I ...
( Category: Mystery January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1904-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 13 The Embassy The brethren and Rosamund looked at each other, for having so much to say it seemed that they could not speak at all. Then with a ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

So they started, the accordion-man, playing execrably, leading the way, and trekked for about a mile and a half till they came to the koppie in the centre of the ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-23 | Author:Henry Rider Haggard [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Three days later Hugh and Grey Dick, in the character of royal messengers from the King of England to the Doge of Venice, took passage in a great vessel bound ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Mihail Sebastian

The afternoon passed and the chalet didn’t appear. We should have got there a long time ago, Nora thought. Her boots felt heavy on her feet and she had the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Laurens, Stephanie [Laurens, Stephanie]

Chapter Twelve In the late afternoon, with Heather beside him, Breckenridge walked into a tiny hamlet that, according to his map, gloried in the name of Craigdarroch. In unspoken accord, ...
( Category: Historical January 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 1922-09-14 | Author:Herman Hesse [Hesse, Herman]

BY THE RIVER Siddhartha walked through the forest, was already far from the city, and knew nothing but that one thing, that there was no going back for him, that ...
( Category: Classics January 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON

And, after that, we did eat and drink, and made plans. And once I did comfort the Maid; for, indeed, her sorrow did rise in her, because that her father ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 20,2019 )