Classics
epub |eng | 2000-08-21 | Author:Hines, Barry [Hines, Barry]

He refolded the slip and stuffed it into the same pocket as the money, then left the house and shut the door behind him. The noise made a starling fly ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1865-01-01 | Author:Carroll, Lewis [Carroll, Lewis]

XII Alice’s Evidence Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few min utes, and she jumped up in ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-15 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

8 By the time the first cooling thunderstorms came in late September, that house had been fixed up—the roof mended, the steps and porch strengthened, the inside painted and even ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-15 | Author:Ford, Ford Madox [Ford, Ford Madox]

IV IT is very difficult to give an all-round impression of any man. I wonder how far I have succeeded with Edward Ashburnham. I dare say I haven’t succeeded at ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1972-01-16 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

13 It started blowing hard during the night, and by the time it was light a force seven gale was in progress. Slates clattered down from the roof, a tree ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1952-01-25 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1853-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

The Old Man of the Name of Tulkinghorn ‘Stay!’ She negligently calls him back. ‘Remain here, I beg. I am going out to dinner. I have nothing more to say ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Wilder, Thornton [Wilder, Thornton]

There was a knock at the door. The Maestro was called to the telephone. Roger turned his back on the objects and went to the window—the lights of the city. ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1958-12-14 | Author:Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen) [Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)]

VIII The Hymn On Sunday morning it began to snow. The white flakes fell fast and thick; the small windowpanes of the yellow house became pasted with snow. Early in ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

20 “OF COURSE WE MUST dine with Mrs. Carfry, dearest,” Archer said; and his wife looked at him with an anxious frown across the monumental Britannia ware of their lodging-house ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1911-12-31 | Author:Alain-Fournier, Henri [Alain-Fournier, Henri]

VIII THE GENDARMES! We had to join up with the crowd of men and women making their way back towards the school through the dark streets. Now we understood everything. ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-31 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

5 And your family is … Scattered. Your entire family is scattered …? My parents are dead. I’m very sorry to hear that. An automobile accident. It happened a long ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1850-01-01 | Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

X The Leech and His Patient Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Grahame, Kenneth [Grahame, Kenneth]

7 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn The Willow-Wren was twittering his thin little song, hidden himself in the dark selvedgebc of the river bank. Though it was past ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-06 | Author:Wyndham, John [Wyndham, John]

Part Two CHAPTER 16 Now We Are Nine DURING the next few years, such visits home as we managed were brief and hurried, spent entirely in dashing from one lot ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )