Classics
epub |eng | 1898-04-15 | Author:Falkner, John Meade [Falkner, John Meade]

Chapter 12 A FUNERAL How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can —Browning We stood for a moment holding one another's hands; then ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1903-01-15 | Author:Keller, Helen [Keller, Helen]

In the Study at Cambridge As to the two-handed alphabet, I think it is much easier for those who have sight than the manual alphabet; for most of the letters ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1855-01-18 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

14 There were two ships in mid-channel, sailing in company about three miles distant from each other, and the leading ship had a curious rakish air about her, with her ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1938-01-02 | Author:Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan [Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan]

Chapter XIX The first week in September was as parched and dry as old bones. Only the weeds grew. There was a tension in the heat. The dogs were snappish. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1906-02-01 | Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]

EIGHTEEN JURGIS DID not get out of the Bridewell quite as soon as he had expected. To his sentence there were added “court costs” of a dollar and a half—he ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1839-01-01 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Camaralzaman and Badoura. “When once the Princess Badoura had formed this resolution, in concert with the Princess Haiatalnefous, she spoke to Prince Camaralzaman in private, on the same day, in ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Singer, Isaac Bashevis [Singer, Isaac Bashevis]

At the restaurant, I hardly recognized Liebkind Bendel. Even though he wore a yellow jacket, a red shirt, and a tie with golden dots, his face looked as pale as ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-04-14 | Author:Monsarrat, Nicholas [Monsarrat, Nicholas]

11 The two bodies lay side by side on the quarterdeck, neatly tucked in under the two ensigns. Ericson, clearing his throat to start reading the burial service, found his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1817-01-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

13 The remainder of Anne’s time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the mansion-house, and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Emily [Bronte, Emily]

Chapter XVII That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-16 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

10. AGAIN VASILIA 40 It was as though a hyperwave drama had come to a halt in a holographic still. None of the robots moved, of course, but neither did ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1811-01-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER VIII. Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1667-01-15 | Author:Milton, John [Milton, John]

( Category: Poetry November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:Dunsany, Lord [Dunsany, Lord]

* * * CHAPTER XIX Twelve Old Men Without Magic « ^ » NOW FEW things pass by a village and leave no talk behind them. Nor did this unicorn. ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )