Historical
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Brianne E Pryor

~ 17 ~ “I did not mean to startle the girl, my lord,” Byrum expressed his apologies the moment his master was before him. “I was only surprised to hear ...
( Category: Regency March 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Bridget Barton [Barton, Bridget]

"My father never knew. I feel I betrayed him." "But it was such a small moment, and yet you're acting as though all the good things you've done are overshadowed ...
( Category: Victorian March 8,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Nicole Clarkston & a Lady [Clarkston, Nicole]

“’Miss Elizabeth Bennet is to hold administrative authority over household affairs during my absence, her judgment subject only to Miss Darcy’s wishes. Any business affairs Mr Jefferson would normally report ...
( Category: Historical March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:Rachel Randall [Randall, Rachel]

Chapter Six The rain beat down outside, rivulets of water streaking the pane after the week of fine weather. In the centre of the cosy parlour, two men stared at ...
( Category: Historical March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-05 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

VI John stood facing Mr. Braddock Washington in the full sunlight. The elder man was about forty with a proud, vacuous face, intelligent eyes and a robust figure. In the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Maria Matios [Matios, Maria]

( Category: Family Life March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Part II Chapter I The Dream of Pride Lukerya has just announced that she can’t go on living here and that she is going away as soon as her lady ...
( Category: Russian March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Locke

* * * CHAPTER IX.—VARIOUS ELEMENTS HAVE THEIR SAY. .................. IT WAS A SULTRY NIGHT. Not a breath of air was stirring. They had escaped from the crowd on the ...
( Category: Classics March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-17 | Author:Unknown

XIV. The Two Thieves There was once a thief called the Big Thief. Now this Big Thief went into a town to steal. When he had gone some little distance ...
( Category: World March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-13 | Author:Celeste Barclay [Barclay, Celeste]

Chapter Sixteen Elizabeth woke as the sun peeked into the chamber, and she found herself wrapped in the embrace of muscular arms, her back pressed against the searing heat of ...
( Category: Scottish March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Gibson [Gibson, Mary]

13 Mudlark She wanted to tell everyone. But most of all she wanted to tell Aunt Sarah, the one person about whom her father had expressed interest. At his office, ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:Zack

CHAPTER TEN Snow in the Wings Gil was on the point of making a coffee to help the third cigarette of the day down—Mike’s bad influence—when the door bell chimed. ...
( Category: Games & Strategy Guides March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-16 | Author:Edith Layton [Layton, Edith]

13 The little man was very nervous. It was not so much the tic in his cheek which showed it, for he always had that, and at any rate his ...
( Category: Regency March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-29 | Author:Jane Austen [Austen, Jane]

( Category: Classics March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edith Wharton

VI The evening party with which “War and Peace” begins is one of the most triumphant examples in fiction of the difficult art of “situating” the chief actors in the ...
( Category: Victorian March 7,2020 )