Classics
epub |eng | 2006-10-17 | Author:Arthur Koestler [Koestler, Arthur]

6 The day before the term set by Ivanov expired, at the serving out of supper, Rubashov had the feeling that there was something unusual in the air. He could ...
( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

A TIDEWATER MORNING During the late summer of 1938, there was black news of the onrushing war. I had just turned thirteen, and I had a newspaper route that carried ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

And now I began to look forward to the coming of the Reverend Eppes, but it took an almighty long time for him to fetch me. All morning I sat ...
( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:William Styron [Styron, William]

Chapter Eleven “SON THE NORTH BELIEVES it has a veritable patent on virtue,” my father said, gingerly stroking with a forefinger his shiny new black eye. “But of course, the ...
( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

8. ON BOARD THE SOFAL Hovering just above us, I saw what at first appeared to be five enormous birds; but which I soon recognized, despite my incredulity, as winged ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

XIV. — ON TO THURIA Although I had realized the likelihood of our strange craft being discovered by a patrol boat, I had hoped that we might escape from the ...
( Category: Fantasy August 8,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

XI. — THE NET DRAWS CLOSER THE next day, as I was making my rounds of the prison, I took it upon myself to inquire of a number of the ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-06 | Author:Edgar Rice Borroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

CHAPTER II That was a good little ship—staunch and swift, as are all the ships of The Black Pirates of Barsoom—and it carried us past the farthest camp fires before ...
( Category: Literary August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Henry Green & Adam Thirlwell

10 LEAVING house-party Mr. Dupret went to Birmingham. When he heard Mr. Bridges was already gone on leave he was glad. He did not want to see Mr. Bridges. Indeed, ...
( Category: British & Irish August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Miguel De Cervantes & Samuel Putnam [De Cervantes, Miguel]

“For all of that,” observed Don Quixote, “they might well have said nothing about them; for there is no need of recording those events that do not alter the veracity ...
( Category: Action & Adventure August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-29 | Author:Miguel de Cervantes & Edith Grossman [Cervantes, Miguel de]

( Category: Classics August 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-09 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

The birds and animals are all friendly to each other, and there are no disputes about anything. They all talk, and they all talk to me, but it must be ...
( Category: Classics August 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-29 | Author:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels [Marx, Karl]

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! Modern Version Introduction An invisible demon is haunting Europe -- the demon of Communism. All the Powers of ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 5,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-29 | Author:O'Donnell, Elliott [O'Donnell, Elliott]

* * * CHAPTER IX THE BANSHEE AT SEA Talking of phantom music, there is a widespread belief among Celtic races that whenever it is heard proceeding from the sea, ...
( Category: Classics August 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 1973-03-15 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

'Oh! you know what I mean!' His heart shrank. He did know what she meant; but he had never thought of it till this moment. And of course--oh, yes!--he ought ...
( Category: Classics August 3,2018 )