Classics
epub |eng | 1908-01-02 | Author:Beatrix Potter [Potter, Beatrix]

JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK came every afternoon; she laid nine eggs in the nest. They were greeny white and very large. The foxy gentleman admired them immensely. He used to turn them ...
( Category: Classics November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Aristophanes & Paul Roche [Aristophanes & Roche, Paul]

[PEISETAIRUS enters leading PRINCESS with one hand and clutching a batch of thunderbolts with the other.] But here he comes, the man himself, so may the divine Muse open her ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1894-12-31 | Author:H. G. Wells; Alfred Mac Adam

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

That is all.” “Terse and to the point,” remarked Holmes, stretching his long, thin legs towards the fire. “There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society papers ...
( Category: Mystery November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1907-01-01 | Author:H. Rider Haggard & Benjamin Ivry [Haggard, H. Rider & Ivry, Benjamin]

Chapter 11 We Give a Sign FOR A LONG WHILE-two hours, I should think—we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we ...
( Category: Classics November 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 6 Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, ...
( Category: Mystery November 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1851-01-01 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe; Elizabeth Ammons

CHAPTER 19 Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions (Continued) Tom, you needn’t get me the horses. I don’t want to go,” she said. “Why not, Miss Eva?” “These things sink into ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1851-01-01 | Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe & Elizabeth Ammons [Stowe, Harriet Beecher & Ammons, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER 19 Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions (Continued) Tom, you needn’t get me the horses. I don’t want to go,” she said. “Why not, Miss Eva?” “These things sink into ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Swift; Coralie Bickford-smith; Robert Demaria

I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my ...
( Category: Literary November 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1782-01-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XV The Achaeans Desperate When the Trojans had scrambled through trench and sharp stakes, and many Had died at the hands of the Danaans, terrified still They came to ...
( Category: Poetry November 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Edward Gibbon

Note: It is difficult to answer Middleton's objection to this statement of Irenae us: "It is very strange, that from the time of the apostles there is not a single ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Alasdair Gray & William Boyd [Gray, Alasdair & Boyd, William]

CHAPTER 26. Chaos He waited a long time next morning for an impulse to get out of bed, and at last crawled to the larder, and to the lavatory, and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Alasdair Gray; William Boyd

CHAPTER 26. Chaos He waited a long time next morning for an impulse to get out of bed, and at last crawled to the larder, and to the lavatory, and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1742-01-01 | Author:Virgil; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox

So he said, and under his narrow sloped roof he led the great Aeneas, laid him down on a bed of fallen leaves and the hide of a Libyan bear. ...
( Category: Poetry November 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [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: History & Criticism November 13,2017 )