Classics
epub |eng | 1903-01-01 | Author:London, Jack [London, Jack]

V The Law of Meat The cub’s development was rapid. He rested for two days, and then ventured forth from the cave again. It was on this adventure that he ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-19 | Author:Tolkien, J. R. R. [Tolkien, J. R. R.]

Thunder growled and rumbled in the distance, and the rain was still falling heavily. The hobbits crawled away back into the gully; but they did not find much shelter there. ...
( Category: Fantasy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-08-15 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

5 We had arranged to meet at the apartment and have a cocktail before starting. I arrived before Larry. I was taking them to a very smart restaurant and expected ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-21 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

DEAR CELIE, At first there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest. A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging. Then a ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-23 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

HELP ME, JESUS! My husband needs me with him in his hour of need. And yet, in the morning, again Edna Mae could not lift her head from her pillow. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1793-01-01 | Author:Parsons, Eliza [Parsons, Eliza]

END OF VOLUME I Volume 2 The ladies proposed an airing to divert the Countess from dwelling on past events, and Matilda from apprehensions of future ones. The carriage was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-31 | Author:Dick, Philip K. [Dick, Philip K.]

Reaching out, he carefully scratched the notation on his pad out of existence, then burned the paper itself in the ceramic ashtray. There was a knock, and his office door ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1899-01-18 | Author:Wells, H. G. [Wells, H. G.]

CHAPTER 15 PROMINENT PEOPLE The state apartments of the wind vane keeper would have seemed astonishingly intricate to Graham had he entered them fresh from his nineteenth century life, but ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-01 | Author:Burnett, Frances Hodgson [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

14 A Young Rajah The moor was hidden in mist when the morning came, and the rain had not stopped pouring down. There could be no going out of doors. ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE NEXT DAY CAME gray and still with unfinished rain of summer and the sky pressed low over the valley heavy with its burden of the rain, and the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1936-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

Chapter 5 1 RAVEN GROPED THROUGH the dark of the small shed till he had found the sacks. He piled them up, shaking them as one shakes a pillow. He ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1894-01-01 | Author:Crane, Stephen [Crane, Stephen]

CHAPTER XV The regiment was standing at order armsaa at the side of a lane, waiting for the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little packet enwrapped ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1963-11-15 | Author:London, Jack / Robert L. Fish [London, Jack / Robert L. Fish]

And then Grunya’s Chicago wail: “Have you any later news?” He did not answer this, but very shortly received a second from her. “Do please help me if you have ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1905-02-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

Alone with her cousin’s kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts. He had kissed her before—but not with another woman on his lips. If he had spared her that she could ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )