Classics
epub |eng | 1895-01-01 | Author:Wells, H. G. [Wells, H. G.]

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

III EVEN AS YUAN HAD LOVED and hated his father in his childhood, so now he left that foreign country loving and hating it. He could not but love it, ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-23 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

3 I I came slowly up the stairs to the flat in the rue Catinat, pausing and resting on the first landing. The old women gossiped as they always had ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1880-01-01 | Author:Oliphant, Margaret [Oliphant, Margaret]

Chapter 6 M. Le Maire Resumes His Narrative We re-entered by the door for foot-passengers which is by the side of the great Porte St. Lambert. I will not deny ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the ...
( Category: Memoirs November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

One day early in July Anthony, returned from an afternoon in New York, called up-stairs to Gloria. Receiving no answer he guessed she was asleep and so went into the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1902-01-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

—III— He was really, notwithstanding, to hear more from her of what she saw; and the very next occasion had for him still other surprises than that. He received from ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1888-01-23 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

VIII WHEN, ON COMING HOME THE EVENING AFTER his father had made the acquaintance of the Dossons, Gaston went into the room in which the old man habitually sat, Mr. ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER XXI MARY WALKED TO THE nearest station and reached home in an incredibly short space of time, just so much, indeed, as was needed for the intelligent understanding of ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-15 | Author:Baum, Lyman Frank [Baum, Lyman Frank]

Chapter XI. The Wonderful Emerald City of OZ. Emerald City Oz. Evenwith eyes protected by the green specta les Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1885-01-01 | Author:Haggard, Henry Rider [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 11 We Give a Sign FOR A LONG WHILE-two hours, I should think—we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-01-27 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

Chapter 2 THE SICK BAY ‘Wherefore shrink from me? What have I done that you should fear me? You have been listening to evil tales, my child.’ The Little Duke ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1959-01-02 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

2 “Mrs. Dudley,” the doctor said, putting down his fork, “an admirable soufflé.” Mrs. Dudley turned to regard him briefly and went into the kitchen with an empty dish. The ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1826-07-30 | Author:Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]

Chapter 17 I have lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Thus long, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1798-01-01 | Author:Brown, Charles Brockden [Brown, Charles Brockden]

CHAPTER XVI As soon as I arrived in sight of the front of the house, my attention was excited by a light from the window of my own chamber. No ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )