Classics
epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

10 She watched his profile in the half-light; sharp it was and clear, the prominent thin nose thrust downward like the curved beak of a bird. His lips were narrow ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1918-02-01 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

V AFTER LENA CAME TO Black Hawk, I often met her downtown, where she would be matching sewing silk or buying “findings”l for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened to walk ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1816-01-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

Chapter VII. Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1721-01-01 | Author:Defoe, Daniel [Defoe, Daniel]

VOLUME II The FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE FAMOUS MOLL FLANDERS I had a great many adventures after this, but I was young in the business, and did not know ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1968-01-14 | Author:Clarke, Arthur C. [Clarke, Arthur C.]

PART FOUR ABYSS Chapter 21 Birthday Party The familiar strains of “Happy Birthday,” hurled across seven hundred million miles of space at the velocity of light, died away among the ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1937-01-15 | Author:Cronin, A. J. [Cronin, A. J.]

xvi Andrew woke up in the middle of that night groaning:— “Am I a fool, Chris? Chucking away our living—a sound job? After all, I was getting a few private ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-19 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

Then the master builder was silent for a while, face in hands. He spoke at last without lifting it. ‘I’ll try to tell you about my mystery. The stones are ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-07 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

PART TWO CHAPTER 1 I JONES fell from view for a while as completely as the body of the Secretary for Social Welfare. No one ever learnt what was done ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |por | 1950-01-16 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

2004-05: THE NAMING OF NAMES They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands. Here was Hinkston Creek and Lustig Corners and Black River and ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1808-01-01 | Author:Brewer, George [Brewer, George]

CHAPTER XXI. An interval of some years. Time, which engaged the mind to fresh objects and pursuits, might have acted with like effect on the lady Bertha’s disposition, had not ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

IV 12 September 1944. Lunched at Peter Jones and bought new lamp for Henry’s study. A prim lunch surrounded by other women. Not a man anywhere. It was like being ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1874-01-01 | Author:Hardy, Thomas [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER XXXI Blame—Fury THE NEXT EVENING BATHSHEBA, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr. Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1000-01-09 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

- 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: Poetry November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

[In the ensuing pause, the “blue piano” is heard. It continues through the rest of this scene and the opening of the next. The young man clears his throat and ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Forster, E. M. [Forster, E. M.]

Let us take Mrs. Honeychurch’s advice and hate clergymen no more. What’s this place?” “Summer Street, of course,” said Lucy, and roused herself. The woods had opened to leave space ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )