epub |eng | 1835-12-31 | Author:Frederick Marryat [Marryat, Frederick]

" * Villain ! I know thee; down on your knees, for your life is forfeited.' " He turned pale, trembled, and sank upon his knees. " * Now, then/ ...

epub |eng | 1933-01-01 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER IX Emma did not repent her condescension in going to the Coles. The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed ...

epub |eng | 1872-01-01 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER VII: DICK MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL The effect of Geoffrey’s incidental allusions to Mr. Shiner was to restrain a considerable flow of spontaneous chat that would otherwise have burst from ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Banville, John [Banville, John]

4 GREAT DANE, LITTLE DOG The once Danish, now Swedish, island of Hveen, or Hven, or simply Ven - let us choose a middle course and call it Hven - ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Bruce Chatwin

To Francis Steegmuller535 L6 Albany (top) | Piccadilly | London | 21 March 1980 Dear Francis, You can certainly borrow, not rent the above, but I feel I must warn ...

mobi |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:

1857 TOBERMORY Saki (H. H. Munro) IT WAS a chill, rain-washed afternoon of a late August day, that indefinite season when partridges are still in security or cold storage, and ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1996-02-28 | Author:Brontë, Anne

CHAPTER 31 SOCIAL VIRTUES March 20th, 1824. The dreaded time is come, and Arthur is gone, as I expected. This time he announced it his intention to make but a ...

mobi |fr | 2010-04-30 | Author:James Joyce

* * * * * * * Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Deshil Holles Eamus. Send us bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening and wombfruit. Send us bright one, ...

mobi |fr | 2010-02-24 | Author:Anthony Hope

CHAPTER 12 I Receive a Visitor and Bait a Hook About five miles from Zenda-on the opposite side from that on which the Castle is situated, there lies a large ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-27 | Author:Johnson, Samuel [Johnson, Samuel]

No. 168. Saturday, 26 October 1751. —————Decipit Frons prima multos, rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo. PHÆDRUS.1 The tinsel glitter, and the specious mein,2 Delude the most; few ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

ON THE COOLMINE ROAD he whistled, swinging the suitcase jauntily. Smoke rose from the pit-head into a sky as pale as pipeclay. A lorry was going in at the gate ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Banville [Banville, John]

In moments like that you can feel memory gathering its material, beady-eyed and voracious, like a demented photographer. I don’t mean the big scenes, the sunsets and car crashes, I ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Megan Mulry [Mulry, Megan]

Chapter 11 The car started to slow down as it entered the tree-lined streets of Englewood Cliffs, coming to a stop in front of a 1970s ranch house. The home ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1890-03-25 | Author:William Morris [Morris, William]

Chapter 18 THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW LIFE "Well," said I, "so you got clear out of all your trouble. Were people satisfied with the new order of things when ...