Search results for "illustrated"
epub |eng | 2017-12-24 | Author:Giovanni Boccaccio [BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI]

THE EIGHTH STORY Day the Fifth NASTAGIO DEGLI ONESTI, FALLING IN LOVE WITH A LADY OF THE TRAVERSARI FAMILY, SPENDETH HIS SUBSTANCE WITHOUT BEING BELOVED IN RETURN, AND BETAKING HIMSELF, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]

26 (return) [ This remark of Mr. Cornelius Littlepage’s, may induce a smile in the reader. But, few persons of fifty can be found, who cannot recall the time, when ...
( Category: French February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Henry James [JAMES, HENRY]

GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO 1902 The great feast-days of all, for the restless critic, are those much interspaced occasions of his really meeting a “case,” as he soon enough learns to call, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-24 | Author:G. K. Chesterton [CHESTERTON, G. K.]

The Worst Crime in the World FATHER BROWN was wandering through a picture gallery with an expression that suggested that he had not come there to look at the pictures. ...
( Category: Military & Wars February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-16 | Author:Max Brand [BRAND, MAX]

XV. THE DRUMMON PLACE THEY CAME TO the verge of the bright water, with its currents running like half-luminous shadows beneath the surface. “This is the limit,” said Tonio. “This ...
( Category: Westerns February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:William Shakespeare (Apocryphal) [SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM]

Alice. Then with thy lips seal up this new-made match. Mosbie. Soft, Alice, here comes somebody. Alice. How now, Bradshaw, what ‘s the news with you? Bradshaw. I have little ...
( Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Mary Shelley [SHELLEY, MARY]

CHAPTER X. After a little explanation, I discovered who my new friends were. The lady and my mother were remotely related; but they had been educated together, and separated only ...
( Category: Gothic February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Arnold Bennett [BENNETT, ARNOLD]

CHAPTER IV I had acquaintances in Torquay, but I soon discovered that the place was impossible for me. Torquay is the chosen home of the proprieties, the respectabilities, and all ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]

Chapter XVII. “Sit still, and hear the last of our sea sorrow.” — Shakspeare The weight of the tempest had been felt at that hapless moment when Earing and his ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:George Eliot [ELIOT, GEORGE]

Chapter Thirty Four. No Place for Repentance. Messer Naldo came again sooner than was expected: he came on the evening of the twenty-eighth of November, only eleven days after his ...
( Category: British & Irish February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Bram Stoker [STOKER, BRAM]

A DEPUTY WAITER ‘When I began my career, I was ambitious to shine upon the lyric stage - no, sir! not in Shaftesbury Avenue.’ The interpolation was in answer to ...
( Category: other February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [SCOTT, SIR WALTER]

“Thou errest,” said the Hakim. “Philip of France, and Henry of Champagne, and others of Richard’s principal allies, have heard the proposal without starting, and have promised, as far as ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-23 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN]

CHAPTER XI. THE GATHERING OF THE NATIONS. And now I come to a bit of my story that clean takes my breath away as I think of it, and makes ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [TURGENEV, IVAN]

XV LITVINOV found rather many guests at Irina’s. In a corner at a card - table were sitting three of the generals of the picnic: the stout one, the irascible ...
( Category: Classics February 10,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Jack London [LONDON, JACK]

III After a giddy night of grand and lofty tumbling, in which, over a big and dying sea, without a breath of wind to steady her, the Uncle Toby rolled ...
( Category: Linguistics February 10,2023 )