British & Irish
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

'We have rooms,' he said, 'at the Dragon, for the present. I have a fancy for the evening walk. The nights are dark just now; perhaps Mr Pinch would not ...
( Category: British & Irish March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Arnold Bennett

“You think so?” Miss Wheeler responded uncertainly. “I suppose it is . It’s a Gilbert. He gave it me. But do you really think it compares with this Barye? It ...
( Category: British & Irish March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-28 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

( Category: British & Irish March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-10 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

“How do you mean?” said I. “What could the Government have done? I often used to think that they would be helpless in such a crisis.” Said old Hammond: “Of ...
( Category: British & Irish March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Browning, Robert, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett]

R.B. to E.B.B. Friday Morning. [Post-mark, July 25, 1845.] You would let me now, I dare say, call myself grateful to you—yet such is my jealousy in these matters—so do ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-23 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

THE MALTESE CAT They had good reason to be proud, and better reason to be afraid, all twelve of them; for, though they had fought their way, game by game, ...
( Category: British & Irish February 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-22 | Author:Edward Morgan Forster [Forster, Edward Morgan]

Chapter XIII: How Miss Bartlett’s Boiler Was So Tiresome How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had always rehearsed them indoors, and with certain accessories, which ...
( Category: British & Irish July 18,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

Chapter 3 ‘There are three stages in your reintegration,’ said O’Brien. ‘There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance. It is time for you to enter upon the ...
( Category: British & Irish June 27,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-05-30 | Author:Gaiman, Neil

* * * This was written as the introduction to Kurt Busiek’s Astro City: Confession, 1999. The Batman story idea I talk about, that we came up with in the ...
( Category: British & Irish June 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-17 | Author:Desmond MacHale

… The Professor asserts that the statement that I received the Reports of, and consulted with and arranged for, the requirements of every Professor is untrue. I have before me ...
( Category: British & Irish May 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Sackville-West, Vita [Sackville-West, Vita]

Perhaps Vita’s most celebrated book, about history, house, and herself, concerns her dearly loved and hard-lost Knole. Her relation to her colorful ancestors infuses the book with nostalgia and beauty. ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Barry Day & Tony Ring [DAY, BARRY]

Nonetheless, the constant process of revision invariably paid off for him and when he comes to review the finished article … It really reads as if I had written it ...
( Category: British & Irish March 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-07 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

PART IV When I went over on Easter Day I heard the chapel–gossips complimenting cousin Holman on her daughter's blooming looks, quite forgetful of their sinister prophecies three months before. ...
( Category: British & Irish February 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-08 | Author:Frank O'Connor & Julian Barnes [O'connor, Frank & Barnes, Julian]

5 IRELAND PREFACE IN 1958 O’CONNOR was interviewed by the Paris Review in his Brooklyn apartment, which had a view across the river to lower Manhattan and the New York ...
( Category: British & Irish January 26,2016 )