Classics
epub |eng | 2007-06-14 | Author:Arthur Preston Hankins [Hankins, Arthur Preston]

CHAPTER XIX. WHAT MADE THE WILD CAT Jerkline Jo's wagon train snailed on over the desert toward the tents of Demarest's big camp. The tires of Mr. Tweet's shiny new ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-17 | Author:Manly Wade Wellman [Wellman, Manly Wade]

Fourteen Astringily built man stood there, hands in his trousers pockets, gazing gloomily seaward. “I saw you come back when you ‘ad a chance to leave, sir.” he said as ...
( Category: Mystery February 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Joseph A. Altsheler [Altsheler, Joseph A.]

"Here I am, Dick," he said, "and the great battle hasn't been fought. I knew they couldn't fight it without me. The hospital at Washington dismissed me in disgrace because ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:WHITE, PATRICK

Dear Hurtle, Although I have in my head a letter explaining my behaviour the day of our visit, I hesitate to write it down for fear that my argument will ...
( Category: Humor February 3,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

IX I left Venice the next morning, as soon as I learned that the old lady had not succumbed, as I feared at the moment, to the shock I had ...
( Category: Classics February 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Edith Wharton [Wharton, Edith]

Chapter VIII Glennard had, perhaps unconsciously, counted on the continuance of this easier mood. He had always taken pride in a certain robustness of fibre that enabled him to harden ...
( Category: United States February 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-30 | Author:Alan Melville [Melville, Alan]

CHAPTER EIGHT MR. (DEREK) WILSON was solving a crossword with a fair amount of success. Not an ordinary crossword; not one of those affairs where five thousand pounds is given ...
( Category: Mystery February 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-08-01 | Author:anonymous [anonymous]

Women are very devils, made to work us dole and death; Refuge I seek with God Most High from all their craft and scaith. Prime source are they of all ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality February 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 0850-01-01 | Author:Anonymous & Gummere [Anonymous & Gummere]

- XX - Hrothgar replied, the ruler of the Scyldings: “Ask not about gladness! Grief is renewed for the Danish people. Aeschere is dead, the elder brother of Yrmenlaf the ...
( Category: Contemporary February 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-10 | Author:Meghan Quinn [Quinn, Meghan]

Chapter Sixteen BECK I wipe my face with the back of my hand. Fuck, it’s stifling in here. A little bit of AC wouldn’t hurt. I have a mini portable ...
( Category: Action & Adventure February 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-06 | Author:Harriet Knowles & A Lady [Knowles, Harriet]

It was, of course, too early to expect her for breakfast just yet, but he wished to be ready for her as soon as she came downstairs. He turned into ...
( Category: Clean & Wholesome February 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:P.G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P.G.]

§2 The mind of a man who has undertaken a mission as delicate as Psmith’s at Blandings Castle is necessarily alert. Ever since he had stepped into the five o’clock ...
( Category: Humor & Satire February 1,2019 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1992-06-28 | Author:Mikhail Lermontov [Lermontov, Mikhail]

May 13 Today, in the morning, the doctor came to see me. His name is Werner, though he is Russian. What is surprising about that? I knew a German who ...
( Category: Classics February 1,2019 )
epub |eng | 1958-06-15 | Author:Alistair Maclean [MacLean, Alistair]

"Sensible, so sensible." The officer leaned over the conning-tower, his arms folded, the barrel of the gun lying along his upper left arm: the English was good, the tone self-satisfied, ...
( Category: Classics January 31,2019 )
epub |eng | 1958-12-15 | Author:Alistair Maclean [Maclean, Alistair]

That wind was rising steadily now, a bitter wind that whipped the heavy snow into their bent faces and stung the tears from their blinking eyes. A heavy, wet snow ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 31,2019 )