Classic Literature & Fiction
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 | | | Author:Edith Wharton

* * * XXII WHEN Amherst woke, the next morning, in the hotel to which he had gone up from Lynbrook, he was oppressed by the sense that the hardest ...
( Category: Short Stories January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

XXXIII Angel felt that he would like to spend a day with her before the wedding, somewhere away from the dairy, as a last jaunt in her company while there ...
( Category: Classics January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thomas Hardy

XXIII. Military Preparations on an Extended Scale Christmas had passed. Dreary winter with dark evenings had given place to more dreary winter with light evenings. Rapid thaws had ended in ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory January 8,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Willa Cather

PART III: STUPID FACES I So many grinning, stupid faces! Thea was sitting by the window in Bowers's studio, waiting for him to come back from lunch. On her knee ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Shikibu Murasaki [Murasaki, Shikibu]

1 This character does not appear elsewhere in the work. 2 The space was called the Kaedono. 3 The word for “early spring greens,” wakana, gives this chapter its title. ...
( Category: Japanese November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Unknown]

Footnotes—Four Beasts (*1) Flavius Vospicus says, that the hymn here introduced was sung by the rabble upon the occasion of Aurelian, in the Sarmatic war, having slain, with his own ...
( Category: Classics October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

2 There are some things I’ve never liked talking about. A few days after I entered prison, I realized that I wouldn’t like talking about this part of my life. ...
( Category: French June 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Still no success? Fie! Fie! What are you and the police doing? Well, well, isn’t this fun? And where shall we go next for honey? Poor Mr Poirot. I’m quite ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Guy De Maupassant [Maupassant, Guy de]

What is wrong with me? It is he, the Horla, who is haunting me, making me think these mad thoughts! He is inside me, he is becoming my soul; I ...
( Category: French March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

PART THREE Thus week by week the prisoners of plague put up what fight they could. Some, like Rambert, even contrived to fancy they were still behaving as free men ...
( Category: French March 3,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Alexandre Dumas

Chapter 17: The First Bulb On the following evening, as we have said, Rosa returned with the Bible of Cornelius de Witt. Then began between the master and the pupil ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-08-10 | Author:Charles Dickens

( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1999-03-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives February 9,2015 )