Classics
epub |eng | | Author:Lawrence Durrell

The death damp is creeping in again. In the autumn we escape occasionally, like moles, into the upper air, and brood on the extinction settling down over England. This is ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1878-12-31 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky & Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

“God was watching over me then,” Mitya used to say afterwards: just at that time, the sick Grigory Vasilievich woke up on his bed. Towards evening of that day he ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-06-14 | Author:Dostoevsky, Fyodor [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

“God was watching over me then,” Mitya used to say afterwards: just at that time, the sick Grigory Vasilievich woke up on his bed. Towards evening of that day he ...
( Category: World Literature September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

IV AS IF ON PURPOSE, the nag crawled on for an unnaturally long time, though I had promised a whole rouble. The driver kept whipping her up and, of course, ...
( Category: Classics September 6,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1931-11-28 | Author:Nathanael West

By this time, Balso had gotten one of his hands free. He hit Miss McGeeney a terrific blow in the gut and hove her into the fountain. The wooden horse, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 6,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1934-11-28 | Author:Nathanael West

18 Many chapters earlier in this book, we left our heroine, Betty Prail, in the bad house of Wu Fong, awaiting the visit of a pockmarked Armenian from Malta. Since ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:unknow

The Gnome There was once upon a time a rich King who had three daughters, who daily went to walk in the palace garden, and the King was a great ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-22 | Author:Carlene Thompson [Thompson, Carlene]

CHAPTER TWELVE 1 AFTER THE FIRST BLUDGEONING shock of seeing Gus, Teresa became vaguely aware of Mac asking, “Teri? What’s wrong? Teri!” “Put Eclipse in the empty stall near the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense September 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1944-01-02 | Author:Sun Tzu; Lionel Giles

13 Employing Spies 216 Sun-tzu said: “When you send forth an army of a hundred thousand on a campaign, marching them out a thousand li, the expenditures of the common ...
( Category: Military September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-15 | Author:James George Frazer

How deeply implanted in the mind of the ancient Greeks was this faith in Demeter as goddess of the corn may be judged by the circumstance that the faith actually ...
( Category: Anthropology September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-24 | Author:Stephen Gregory [Gregory, Stephen]

There dawned one of those crisp December mornings in the mountains, where the air is full of the scent of the fir trees, so cold that it scalds the nostrils, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:The Girl;the Golden Eyes

Addendum * Note: The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais. In ...
( Category: Classics September 5,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1904-01-01 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

Part 3 The Lighthouse Chapter 1 Directly the cargo boat had slipped away from the wharf and got lost in the darkness of the harbour the Europeans of Sulaco separated, ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 5,2017 )
epub | | | Author:Richard Burton

* * * Footnotes 1 There is a good deal of truth in the last few observations. Woman is a monogamous animal, and loves but one, and likes to feel ...
( Category: Sex September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simenon Georges

* * * 5 THE CIGARETTE BURN It might have taken weeks. At the Quai des Orfèvres that morning everybody was exhausted, with a bad taste in the mouth. Some ...
( Category: Mystery September 5,2017 )