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epub |eng | 2005-10-31 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

“I’ve never said that,” said M. Verdurin to Saniette, with a simulated candor that seemed perfectly to reconcile what the Patronne had been saying with his own treatment of Saniette. ...
( Category: French July 12,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:H.G. Wells [Wells, H.G.]

16 THE EXODUS FROM LONDON So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning – the stream ...
( Category: Science Fiction July 11,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-11-14 | Author:Golding, William [Golding, William]

* * * Ralph sat up. “Well. We shan’t find what we’re looking for at this rate.” One by one they stood up, twitching rags into place. Ralph looked at ...
( Category: Psychological July 6,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

1. According to Strabo (xii. 8. 21), Tantalus, Pelops, and Niobe were Phrygians; and he quotes Demetrius of Scepsis, and also Callisthenes (xiv. 5. 28), as saying that the family ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 4,2019 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Virgil [Virgil]

And then, with the holy rites performed in full, they turned back to the city. The king, bent with years, kept his comrades, Aeneas and his son, beside him, moving ...
( Category: Medieval July 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

VII Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men’s ...
( Category: Historical June 29,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Thurber, James [Thurber, James]

“I have no time for tears,” the maiden said. She knew the secret of the trap, and was about to free the fettered foot, when a farmer from a near-by ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Edited by Scott G. Bruce

AN ARMY WHITE AS SNOW1 In the middle of the twelfth century, a story attributed to Abbot Maiolus of Cluny (d. 994) concerning the appearance of an army of dead ...
( Category: other June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-05 | Author:Lyons, Malcolm C [Lyons, Malcolm C]

“By God, lady,” I said, “it would be better to abandon this letter. Have you no fear of God here?” “Are you a messenger or a busy-body?” she asked, and ...
( Category: Short Stories June 28,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:PULLMAN, PHILIP [PULLMAN, PHILIP]

*** Tale type: ATU 720, ‘The Juniper Tree’ Source: a story written by Philipp Otto Runge Similar stories: Katharine M. Briggs: ‘The Little Bird’, ‘The Milk-White Doo’, ‘Orange and Lemon’, ...
( Category: Anthologies June 25,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

(Rome) 101 Belmiele and Belsole There was once a father with two such fair and beautiful children that the boy was called Belmiele, and the girl Belsole. The man’s duties ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-27 | Author:Janina Rossiter [Rossiter, Janina]

( Category: Children's Books June 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-14 | Author:Various & Gerald Moore & ULLI BEIER [Various & Moore, Gerald & BEIER, ULLI]

Abiku Coming and going these several seasons, Do stay out on the baobab tree, Follow where you please your kindred spirits If indoors it is not enough for you. True, ...
( Category: other June 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 1988-07-15 | Author:John Michael Cohen [Cohen, John Michael]

Let the ilex resist the wind rather with its peasant foot: for with its courtier-like leaves it believes in every breeze. That lovely vine that you see clinging to the ...
( Category: other June 22,2019 )
epub |fra | 1992-01-01 | Author:Various & William Rees [Various & Rees, William]

A Renewal of Lyricism French poetry at the turn of the century reacted in a number of ways against the aesthetic refinements of Symbolism. The most radical and far-reaching changes ...
( Category: Renaissance June 22,2019 )

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