Historical
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Anne [Bronte, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1857-01-01 | Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth [Gaskell, Elizabeth]

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-06 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

16 November and December passed very swiftly, or so it seemed to me. Usually, as the days shortened and the weather worsened, when there would be little to do outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-07 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

The episode of wooing Rachel Dreyfus counted in the life of Julius Lévy as something of a relaxation. The fact that he had met her but once and that in ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

3 I ‘I’VE BROUGHT YOU some stamps,’ Scobie said. ‘I’ve been collecting them for a week—from everybody. Even Mrs Carter has contributed a magnificent parakeet—look at it—from somewhere in South ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

14 There were two ships in mid-channel, sailing in company about three miles distant from each other, and the leading ship had a curious rakish air about her, with her ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1817-01-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

13 The remainder of Anne’s time at Uppercross, comprehending only two days, was spent entirely at the mansion-house, and she had the satisfaction of knowing herself extremely useful there, both ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Emily [Bronte, Emily]

Chapter XVII That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1811-01-01 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER VIII. Mrs. Jennings came immediately to their room on her return, and without waiting to have her request of admittance answered, opened the door and walked in with a ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1864-01-01 | Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth [Gaskell, Elizabeth]

CHAPTER 29 Bush-Fighting During all the months that had elapsed since Mrs. Hamley’s death, Molly had wondered many a time about the secret she had so unwittingly become possessed of ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1938-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

17 Clarice was waiting for me in my bedroom. She looked pale and scared. As soon as she saw me she burst into tears. I did not say anything. I ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

20 The rebel army capitulated to the King in the early hours of Sunday morning. There was no escape by sea for the hundreds of men herded on the beaches. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

20 “OF COURSE WE MUST dine with Mrs. Carfry, dearest,” Archer said; and his wife looked at him with an anxious frown across the monumental Britannia ware of their lodging-house ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1850-01-01 | Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

X The Leech and His Patient Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1881-01-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XXVII I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman’s response to the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the pavement of ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )