Classics
epub |eng | 1636-01-01 | Author:Pedro Calderón de La Barca [Barca, Pedro Calderón de La]

Where scarce a ray of sunshine found him out, In which the poorest beggar of my realm At least to human-full proportion grows— Me! Me—whose station was the kingdom's top ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Charles Warren ADAMS [ADAMS, Charles Warren]

‘He said he was not drunk, but the policeman found him lying on the doorstep.’ 3. Statement of Mrs. Troubridge. ‘My name is Ellen Troubridge. My husband is a seafaring ...
( Category: Mystery September 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Martin Edwards [Edwards, Martin]

My conjectures about the case had now taken a more concrete form. There might be other more cogent reasons for getting rid of Mrs Fraser than the suspicions of a ...
( Category: Mystery September 6,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Ray Russell [Russell, Ray]

IX THE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF Exactly,” said Lord Terry. “The Ripper’s killings, without exception, resembled the later Paris murders, and also the earlier massacres of Bluebeard’s, in that they were ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 5,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-03 | Author:J.K. Rowling [Rowling, J.K.]

HP 4 - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE UNEXPECTED TASK “ P otter! Weasley! Will you pay attention?” Professor McGonagall's irritated voice cracked like a ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 5,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

CHAPTER VII ON RETURNING TO THE flat just before lunch-time on the following morning, after a few confirmatory researches in Balham and the neighbourhood of Victoria Station, Lord Peter was ...
( Category: Mystery September 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-03 | Author:Virginia Woolf & SANDRA KEMP

The Mark on the Wall Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present year that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall. In order ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2018 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Merritt, A. [Merritt, A.]

There was the great divan on which mused Larry; two smaller ones, half a dozen low seats and chairs carved apparently of ivory and of dull soft gold. Most curious ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:E.M. Forster [Forster, E.M.]

Involved in his own emotions, he broke down. What he had said was both dignified and pathetic, but had it anything to do with Aziz? Nothing at all, if Fielding ...
( Category: Classics September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1900-01-02 | Author:E. M. Forster [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 September 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1880-01-01 | Author:Henry Adams [Adams, Henry]

8 Of all titles ever assumed by prince or potentate, the proudest is that of the Roman pontiffs: “Servus servorum Dei”— “Servant of the servants of God.” In former days ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Shiva Naipaul [Naipaul, Shiva]

Mr Khoja handled all the arrangements with a business-like efficiency. At six o’clock, what was called the ‘ice-box’, a crude affair, deep-sided and stained a dark, dull brown, arrived from ...
( Category: Contemporary August 31,2018 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Milan Kundera [Kundera, Milan]

There was a moment of silence. Then Laura said, "That gun is lying in front of me. I can't take my eyes off it." "So put it back where it ...
( Category: Literary August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-01 | Author:Robert Fagles & Homer [Fagles, Robert & Homer]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Poetry August 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Epictetus & George Long [Epictetus & Long, George]

The fragments which follow are in part assigned to Epictetus, in part to others. CXXXVII. Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. ...
( Category: Philosophy August 31,2018 )