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The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Shikibu Murasaki
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-01-30 | Author:Shikibu, Murasaki

Two monks “What could possibly prick your conscience this way? His Grace has never betrayed any such feelings. It has surprised and pained him to learn how ill you are, ...
( Category: Japanese August 7,2019 )
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

* * * Chapter XVI. Here, my friend, thou must permit me to pause. The following incidents are of a kind to which the most ardent invention has never conceived ...
( Category: Classics August 7,2019 )
Arthur Mervyn by Charles Brockden Brown
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Brockden Brown

CHAPTER XXVI. This conversation was interrupted by a messenger from my wife, who desired my return immediately. I had some hopes of meeting with Mervyn, some days having now elapsed ...
( Category: Gothic August 7,2019 )
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (Volumes I and II) by Songling Pu
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Songling Pu [Pu, Songling]

LXIX. THE PRINCESS OF THE TUNG-T‘ING LAKE. Ch‘ên Pi-chiao was a Pekingese; and being a poor man he attached himself as secretary to the suite of a high military official ...
( Category: Ghosts August 7,2019 )
The Empire Trilogy by J.G. Farrell
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:J.G. Farrell

27 At first, there had been great enthusiasm over the Collector’s decision to suppress the rights of property in the food that was to have been auctioned and to give ...
( Category: War August 7,2019 )
Wyoming by Ross Dana Fuller
epub |eng | 1979-08-05 | Author:Ross, Dana Fuller

WYOMINGI jafl cabin, and we can't keep you in Little Valley, either. So we've had to find another solution. Some of the caves up on the slopes are habitable. We'U ...
( Category: Westerns August 6,2019 )
Colorado! by Ross Dana Fuller
epub |eng | 1981-08-05 | Author:Ross, Dana Fuller

head as she rejoined her colleagues. It was plain to her that some women didn't know when they were well oflF. Willie de Berg was sitting with his feet on ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense August 6,2019 )
War and Peace (Coterie Classics) by Tolstoy Leo
epub |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:Tolstoy, Leo [Tolstoy, Leo]

CHAPTER VI Though Balashev was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury and magnificence of Napoleon's court. The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception ...
( Category: War August 6,2019 )
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Joshilyn Jackson

11 The thing that stayed with him, the one thing he knew for sure, was that moment on the railroad tracks. On the way to the clearing, I’d eased us ...
( Category: Domestic August 3,2019 )
Coming, Aphrodite! by Willa Cather
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

A Wagner Matinée I RECEIVED one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and ...
( Category: Victorian August 3,2019 )
Heart of Barkness by Spencer Quinn
epub |eng | | Author:Spencer Quinn

Seventeen “Here’s a theory,” Bernie said, as we headed out of town, roof down and the wind in our hair. “Clint beat up Jordan after the C-note incident. Can’t see ...
( Category: Humorous August 3,2019 )
Amidst This Fading Light by Rebecca Davis
epub |eng | 2018-08-28 | Author:Rebecca Davis [Davis, Rebecca]

Over time, the small bed in the guest room seemed not so hard, and he was finally used to the sounds of Mrs. Jones starting breakfast (his headboard was on ...
( Category: Coming of Age August 3,2019 )
Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Wendell Berry

With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone the weaver is ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
Star Path--People of Cahokia by W. Michael Gear
epub |eng | | Author:W. Michael Gear

Forty Fire Cat and Night Shadow Star spent that night of the lunar maximum rolled in a blanket somewhere in a freshly planted cornfield outside the Yuchi’s Rainbow Town. It ...
( Category: Native American August 3,2019 )
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Abbi Waxman

* * * When Nina came out of work at the end of the day, Archie Reynolds was standing in the street waiting for her. Even after only meeting him ...
( Category: Family Life August 3,2019 )

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