Historical
mobi |eng | 1876-01-01 | Author:Leo Tolstoy

XVIII After his conversation with Alexei Alexandrovich, Vronsky went out to the porch of the Karenins’ house and stopped, hardly remembering where he was and where he had to go ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-03-14 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART After the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externally the same, was really of another character than it ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Jones, Sadie [Jones, Sadie]

Chapter Eight The summary hearings were held immediately, within forty-eight hours of the crimes being reported. Both Colonel Burroughs’s and Hal’s offices were too small to hold all the people ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Charles Palliser

6 o’clock. [A passage in Greek letters begins here. Note by CP.] Shameful. I was thinking about Guinevere while she was doing it—imagining her delicate little white hand on my ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1991-07-18 | Author:Rutherfurd, Edward [Rutherfurd, Edward]

That evening a family conference was held between Nikita and his son, together with Andrei and Pavlo. As Nikita truly said, he needed any good advice he could get. And ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1992-10-23 | Author:Edward Rutherfurd

That evening a family conference was held between Nikita and his son, together with Andrei and Pavlo. As Nikita truly said, he needed any good advice he could get. And ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Vincent Lam

CHAPTER 16 ON THE EVE OF TET IN 1968, Percival sat on the edge of the bathtub. With his cupped hands, he scooped water over Jacqueline’s shoulders, and watched as ...
( Category: Mashups March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Mary Balogh

Chapter 12 EDWARD CONSIDERED PASSING the drawing room doors and going straight up to his room. It would have been easy to do—the doors were closed. But he knew they ...
( Category: Regency March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Mary Stewart

11 That ground will take no footprint. All of it Is bitter stone … EURIPIDES: Electra. (tr. Gilbert Murray.) THE corrie did not lie at any great height. Arachova itself ...
( Category: 20th Century March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

22 I found a patch of sunlight where the old beech leaves were warm and dry and smelled nutty. I took Sea to the river bank and he leaned over ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Chapter 17 Catherine was ill for many days, through the springtime weather of May when the sun rose clear and early, and the birds sang till dusk, till the end ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Barbara Kyle

At the Bolton Castle stables Justine left her horse with the groom and hurried across the courtyard. The gusting wind rattled a loose door and whistled over the steel helmets ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Philippa Gregory

I look at him uncomprehendingly, and then I brush past him, open the door to my husband's bedroom, and stride inside. "Henry?" His face is ashen on the pillow, gray ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-10-31 | Author:Jane Odiwe

MARGARET TOOK THE SHORTCUT through the park to the rectory. Deep in thought, she felt in raptures at all that she saw about her. Every tree, every leafless twig seemed ...
( Category: Historical British & Irish Literature March 25,2014 )