Classics
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-30 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

XXXII. THE DOCKS For more than six weeks, the ship Highlander lay in Prince's Dock; and during that time, besides making observations upon things immediately around me, I made sundry ...
( Category: Sea Stories October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-02-28 | Author:Johann David Wyss [Wyss, Johann David]

I was pleased to see that they had fulfilled their orders intelligently, carrying out my intentions in the spirit and not blindly to the letter. Next morning we quitted the ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-16 | Author:Higgins, Jack [Higgins, Jack]

Chapter TEN AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR A match flared outlining Hamish Grant's craggy features as he lit a cheroot. "And the enquiry?" It was quite dark now, and, below, waves ...
( Category: Espionage October 11,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1838-10-07 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

CHAPTER 12 I had for some time past, dwelt upon the prospect of our being reduced to this last horrible extremity, and had secretly made up my mind to suffer ...
( Category: Sea Stories October 8,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Dodie Smith [Smith, Dodie]

XI I am sitting on the ruins beyond the kitchen-where I sat with Neil, three weeks ago all but a day, after swimming the moat. How different it is now, ...
( Category: Coming of Age October 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nat Burns [Burns, Nat]

Grey I saw dawn creep into my bedroom with jaundiced eyes. I had tried to sleep, tried hard, but every time I closed my eyes and drifted off, I would ...
( Category: Quilts & Quilting September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Richard Bach & Russell Munson [Bach, Richard & Munson, Russell]

When the flying was done, the students relaxed on the sand, and in time they listened more closely to Jonathan. He had some crazy ideas that they couldn’t understand, but ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary August 24,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:George MacDonald

Chapter XXI Sal's Nanny DIAMOND managed with many blunders to read this rhyme to his mother. "Isn't it nice, mother?" he said. "Yes, it's pretty," she answered. "I think it ...
( Category: Anthologies July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-11 | Author:April Lindner [Lindner, April]

The first reasonably affordable hotel room I could find was fifty blocks downtown. Once I’d settled in, I walked around town, window-shopping and people watching, waiting for Jenna to call ...
( Category: Classics July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

BY ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN August 1914 [The Red Wheel / Knot I] Cancer Ward A Candle in the Wind Détente: Prospects for Democracy and Dictatorship East and West The First Circle ...
( Category: Biographical June 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-04-04 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, in his hotel room, Laird put in a long-distance call to his second wife, Selma, in a small house in Levittown, Long Island, New York, far, far away. ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Judith Tarr [Tarr, Judith]

Gerbert suspected that he had gone a little mad. Maybe more than a little. It was the whole of it together. Losing the archbishopric, then seeing it betrayed; enduring servitude ...
( Category: Historical Fantasy March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | | Author:Guy Gavriel Kay [Kay, Guy Gavriel]

She opened her eyes. The room rocked and spun, both. The floor dropped sickeningly away, then rushed precipitously back toward her. She had a stupefying headache and, even without moving ...
( Category: Epic March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Amanda Grange [Grange, Amanda]

JANUARY Miss Elizabeth Bennet to Miss Susan Sotherton Longbourn, Hertfordshire, January 1 My dear Susan, My aunt and uncle have gone, taking Jane with them. I am glad she is ...
( Category: Victorian March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

- III - “I LOOKED AT HIM, lost in astonishment. There he was before me, in motley,di as though he had absconded from a troupe of mimes, enthusiastic, fabulous. His ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )