Classics
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

All night Christine sits motionless in the chair by the table, her thoughts revolving dully around the feeling that everything is over; not an actual pain so much as a ...
( Category: World Literature March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Austen

CHAPTER VIII. Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

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: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sir 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: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

IX The war had jerked me out of the old life I’d known, but in the queer period that came afterwards I forgot it almost completely. I know that in ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1996-05-11 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

I took home with me the girls who had appealed to me least, I stroked their virginal tresses, I admired a well-modelled little nose, a Spanish pallor. Certainly, in the ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1939-01-01 | Author:James Joyce [Joyce, James]

— Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he hasn’t got much of a bark And sure any he has it’s all beside the mark. But, O Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn’t un ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-06-14 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

CHAPTER XIX Great as was Madame Odintsov's self-control, and superior as she was to every kind of prejudice, she felt awkward when she went into the dining-room to dinner. The ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2004-08-10 | Author:Honoré de Balzac [Balzac, Honoré de]

"Papa Camusot!" said Coralie, looking at him with cruel scorn, "have the courage of your pitiful baseness. Come, speak out! You think that this gentleman's boots are very like mine, ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Harriet E. Wilson [Wilson, Harriet E.]

Wilson’s Own Spiritual School Within the year another quite extraordinary development in Wilson’s spiritualist career occurs: Wilson now opens her own lyceum, or, as she called it, her school. It ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)]

* * * VI Next day the prior sent for him and repeated his solemn question. 'Brother Jasper, what have you to say to me?' And absolutely despairing, Jasper answered,— ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-09-27 | Author:Cormac Mccarthy [Mccarthy, Cormac]

Border Trilogy 1 - All the Pretty Horses IV AT CROSSROADS STATION somewhere on the other side of Paredon they picked up five farmworkers who climbed up on the bed ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Austen

13 The remainder of Anne’s time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the mansion-house, and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-27 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

2 For perhaps two or possibly three minutes after they had left Lady Constance's boudoir Gally and John preserved an unbroken silence. Gally was plunged again in thoughts of how ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck [Buck, Pearl S.]

III EVEN AS YUAN HAD LOVED and hated his father in his childhood, so now he left that foreign country loving and hating it. He could not but love it, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )