Classics
epub, mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

The end of this phase was not sharp, not a climax, like the first. It merged into the third phase so gradually that he could not have said where one ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:The Day Of The Triffids (v2) [htm] [Triffids, The Day Of The]

I recalled that in former days when I had come up to Hampstead Heath it had often been by way of a bus terminus where a number of small shops ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-02 | Author:T. S. Eliot & Randy Malamud [Eliot, T. S. & Malamud, Randy]

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries. Donne,2 I suppose, was such ...
( Category: Poetry September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2005-05-02 | Author:Daphne DuMaurier [DuMaurier, Daphne]

2 Seventy-five francs I spent on drink. At that time it did not seem to me that there was any point in saving money. I had left the Rue Vaugirard, ...
( Category: Europe September 13,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1911-01-01 | Author:Jack London [London, Jack]

MAKE WESTING Whatever you do, make westing! make westing! —Sailing directions for Cape Horn. For seven weeks the Mary Rogers had been between 50 degrees south in the Atlantic and ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:L Frank Baum [Baum, L Frank]

The Lake of the Skeezers was inhabited by fishes of many kinds and many sizes. The water was so transparent that the girl could see for a long distance and ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1999-06-15 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges [Borges, Jorge Luis]

That same sweltering morning that Beatriz Viterbo died, after an imperious confrontation with her illness in which she had never for an instant stooped to either sentimentality or fear, I ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1916-01-01 | Author:Stewart Edward White [White, Stewart Edward]

“M’tela?” she repeated the name thoughtfully. “No—but I don’t know much about native tribes.” Remembering her map Kingozi’s lips compressed under his beard. What earthly object could she have in ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:E M Forster [Forster, E M]

Chapter 18 MR. McBRYDE, the District Superintendent of Police, was the most reflective and best educated of the Chandrapore officials. He had read and thought a good deal, and, owing ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1999-10-02 | Author:Raymond Chandler [Chandler, Raymond]

When I got into the car, I noticed a dusty black Packard parked way back in the shade of a pepper tree. The driver was slumped over the wheel. Asleep. ...
( Category: Mystery September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 1941-01-01 | Author:Daphne DuMaurier [DuMaurier, Daphne]

Chapter XIV THERE WERE TWO SHIPS in mid-channel, sailing in company about three miles distant from one another, and the leading ship had a curious rakish air about her, with ...
( Category: Historical September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Ida B Wells-Barnett [Wells-Barnett, Ida B]

* * * THE SOUTH’S POSITION Henry W. Grady in his well-remembered speeches in New England and New York pictured the Afro-American as incapable of self-government. Through him and other ...
( Category: Americas September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

Chapter 8 Sleep would not come. It was not because I was proud of my travels and excited about having been around the big world to China, and feeling contemptuous ...
( Category: Classics September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-18 | Author:Aldous Huxley [Huxley, Aldous]

In a wife I would require What in whores is always found, The lineaments of gratified desire. “But the lineaments of gratified desire are also the lineaments of desirability, the ...
( Category: Philosophy September 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-30 | Author:Jules Verne [Verne, Jules]

CHAPTER XI. HANGING BY A THREAD ALTHOUGH in this way the Ford family led a happy and contented life, yet it was easy to see that Harry, naturally of a ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 13,2017 )