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D.H. LawrenceWomen in Love

23 April 2022

SHORTLANDS The Brangwens went home to Beldover, the weddingparty gathered at Shortlands, the Criches’ home. It was a long, low old house, a sort of manor farm, that spread along the top of a slope

D.H. LawrenceWomen in Love

23 April 2022

SISTERS Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightlycoloured embroidery, and Gudru

MIKHAIL BULGAKOVMaster and Margarita

23 April 2022

In a white cloak with blood-red lining, with the shuffling gait of a cavalryman, early in the morning of the fourteenth day of the spring month of Nisan, there came out to the covered colonnade betwe

MIKHAIL BULGAKOVMaster and Margarita

23 April 2022

At the hour of the hot spring sunset two citizens appeared at the Patriarch’s Ponds. 1 One of them, approximately forty years old, dressed in a grey summer suit, was short, dark-haired, plump, bald,

Robert F Kennedy Thirteen Days A MEMOIR OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

23 April 2022

A jL JLfter the meeting in the Cabinet Room, I walked back to the Mansion with the President. It would be difficult; the stakes were high—of the highest and most substantial kind—but he knew he wo

Robert F Kennedy Thirteen Days A MEMOIR OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

23 April 2022

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER l6, 1962, shortly after 9:00 o'clock. President Kennedy called and asked me to come to the White House. He said only that we were facing great trouble. Shortly afterward, i

Labana Royal kirtansinghLabana Royal kirtansingh's Diary

23 April 2022

सभी चाहते हैं की उनका प्यार सफल हो और प्यार की सफलता तो शादी पर ही खत्म होती है, जब प्रेमी और प्रेमिका दोनों एक दूसरे के लिए आजीवन संबंध में बंध जाते हैं. फिर उन्हें जुदा होने की बात ही नहीं होती है.

William WordsworthThe Prelude

23 April 2022

Oh, there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while he fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy he brings From the green fields and from yon azure sky. Whate’er his mission

Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White

23 April 2022

It was the last day of July. The long hot summer was drawing to a close; and we, the weary pilgrims of the London pavement, were beginning to think of the cloud-shadows on the corn-fields, and the aut

Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in White

23 April 2022

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct ev

Bram StokerDracula

23 April 2022

5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as s

Bram StokerDracula

23 April 2022

3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the g

ANTHONY TROLLOPETHE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON

23 April 2022

"But Mr. Crosbie is only a mere clerk." This sarcastic condemnation was spoken by Miss Lilian Dale to her sister Isabella, and referred to a gentleman with whom we shall have much concern in these pa

ANTHONY TROLLOPETHE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON

23 April 2022

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in the less dig

Stokely CarmichaelReady for Revolution

23 April 2022

The house of my childhood memories was a lively, well-ordered place filled with women and children. In my memory, it is bright, airy, and spacious, its many rooms being cooled by sea breezes off the

Stokely CarmichaelReady for Revolution

23 April 2022

Among many of the !%st African peoples from among whom our ancestors were seized, whenever a child is born, a birth poem or praise song is composed in its honor. Among the Yoruba this birth poem is

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIN THE SOUTH SEAS

23 April 2022

The impediment of tongues was one that I particularly over-estimated.  The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance.  And they are extremely similar, so that a pe

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONIN THE SOUTH SEAS

23 April 2022

For nearly ten years my health had been declining; and for some while before I set forth upon my voyage, I believed I was come to the afterpiece of life, and had only the nurse and undertaker to expec

Mark TwainTHE INNOCENTS ABROAD

23 April 2022

Occasionally, during the following month, I dropped in at 117 Wall Street to inquire how the repairing and refurnishing of the vessel was coming on, how additions to the passenger list were averaging,

Mark TwainTHE INNOCENTS ABROAD

23 April 2022

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novelty in the way of excur