Classics
epub |eng | 1982-01-02 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

18 KATMANDU, my contribution to Western civilization, has been performed three times before paying audiences—once at the Theatre de Lys in New York City in 1960, in the same month ...
( Category: Humor & Satire October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-03 | Author:Pied Piper [Piper, Pied]

Chapter 7 He turned and motioned to the children. Then he glanced at the girl, and caught an expression of surprise, bewilderment, upon her face. There are rather a lot ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

15. THE PSYCHOLOGIST There was reason to the fact that the element known as “pure science” was the freest form of life on the Foundation. In a Galaxy where the ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:Arthur Clarke [Clarke, Arthur]

The closest analogy he had ever seen to this place on Earth was a giant chemical processing plant. However, there were no stockpiles of raw materials, or any indica- tions ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:Childhood's End [End, Childhood's]

ii Jail leaned against the elephant and rested his hands on the skin, rough as the bark of a tree. He looked at the great tusks and the curving trunk, ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:ISAAC ASIMOV [ASIMOV, ISAAC]

49. THEY followed Bander. The robots remained at a polite distance, but their presence was a constantly felt threat. They were moving through a corridor, and Trevize mumbled low-spiritedly, “There’s ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:Damnation Alley [Alley, Damnation]

He heard a chuckle and was on his feet, the gun in his hand. There was no one in sight. It didn't sound as if it had come from the ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub | | 2010-04-12 | Author:House Corrino [Corrino, House]

Hearing the humming whine of sand friction beneath the boards, the preoccupied Harkonnen soldiers turned, but too late. Purple knives of disruptive light cut their legs out from under them, ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1939-01-01 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

The Landauers One night in October 1930, about a month after the Elections, there was a big row on the Leipzigerstrasse. Gangs of Nazi roughs turned out to demonstrate against ...
( Category: Contemporary October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

Chapter 10 The Prison Isle of Shador IIn the outer gardens to which the guard now escorted me, I found Xodar surrounded by a crowd of noble blacks. They were ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Emily Cheney Neville [Neville, Emily Cheney]

We came back to the city Labor Day Monday – us and a couple million others – traffic crawling, a hot day, the windows practically closed up tight to keep ...
( Category: Animals October 13,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-02-25 | Author:Jane Austen

"How came I up that staircase!" he replied, greatly surprised. "Because it is my nearest way from the stable-yard to my own chamber; and why should I not come up ...
( Category: Classics October 13,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Talbot Mundy

Chapter Twenty-One "What has our babu done to them, I wonder?" Once, when I was younger, I used to believe the official reports of events. Medical training, of course, taught ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-28 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer [Chaucer, Geoffrey]

Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus. The Prologue. "No more of this, for Godde's dignity!" Quoth oure Hoste; "for thou makest me So weary of thy very lewedness,* *stupidity, ignorance 1> That, ...
( Category: Classics October 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Geoffrey Chaucer & Peter Ackroyd [Ackroyd, Peter & Chaucer, Geoffrey]

PART THREE Then it happened. It has happened many times before. Soon after the birth of his daughter, Walter decided to test his wife. He wanted to see how constant, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 13,2017 )