Classics
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:J R R Tolkien [Tolkien, J R R]

Ents the earthborn, old as mountains, the wide-walkers, water drinking; and hungry as hunters, the Hobbit children, the laughing-folk, the little people, they shall remain friends as long as leaves ...
( Category: Fantasy January 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 1818-03-10 | Author:Mary Shelley [Shelley, Mary]

Chapter XIV “SOME TIME elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding as it ...
( Category: Genre Fiction January 27,2019 )
epub |nld | 2009-12-14 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [Tolkien, J.R.R.]

BOOK FOUR Chapter 1 THE TAMING OF SMEAGOL 'Well, master, we're in a fix and no mistake,' said Sam Gamgee. He stood despondently with hunched shoulders beside Frodo, and peered ...
( Category: Fantasy January 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-12 | Author:Hulbert Footner [Footner, Hulbert]

II So far, Mme. Storey and I knew no more about the smoke-bandit case than any other newspaper readers. Busy as we were with other matters, we often discussed it. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense January 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Franz Kafka & Jason Baker & Donna Freed [Franz Kafka & Jason Baker & Donna Freed]

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies January 26,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-11-01 | Author:Edith Nesbit & H. R. Millar & Sanford Schwartz [Edith Nesbit & H. R. Millar & Sanford Schwartz]

The three stood breathless, awaiting the result “But—” said Jimmy. “Why,” she said, opening her eyes very wide, you must have known about my being here, or you’d never have ...
( Category: Classics January 26,2019 )
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 |eng | 1980-12-15 | Author:James M Cain [Cain, James M]

11 ‘Baby, what are you doing about Repeal?’ ‘You mean the Repeal of Prohibition?’ ‘Yeah, just that.’ ‘Why, I don’t see how it affects me.’ ‘It affects you plenty.’ Mrs ...
( Category: Literary January 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-25 | Author:Sigmund Freud [Freud, Sigmund]

VI THE WISH IN DREAMS That the dream should be nothing but a wish-fulfillment surely seemed strange to us all—and that not alone because of the contradictions offered by the ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Loren Estleman [Estleman, Loren]

Eleven I CHASE A MURDERER I cannot say how long I stood there after the hansom passed bearing its sinister passenger, staring towards the snowy curtain which had descended upon ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense January 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Various [Various]

* * * FROM THE OCEAN’S DEPTHS BY SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT Man came from the sea. Mercer, by his thought-telegraph, learns from the weirdly beautiful ocean-maiden of a branch that ...
( Category: Classics January 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

THE COLLOQUY OF MONOS AND UNA SOPHOCLES—Antig. These things are in the future. na. “Born again?” Monos. Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were the words upon ...
( Category: Poetry January 24,2019 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

The Premature Burial There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies January 24,2019 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

During this time, Poe’s foster father, John Allan, had become extremely ill. Poe traveled to Richmond to call on Allan but was angrily turned away. In March he died, leaving ...
( Category: Classics January 24,2019 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

DOUBTFUL POEMS * Alone * From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— ...
( Category: Poetry January 24,2019 )