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Emily BronteWuthering Heights

25 April 2022

1801. I have just returned from a visit to my landlord the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have

Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island

25 April 2022

I lost no time, of course, in telling my mother all that I knew, and perhaps should have told her long before, and we saw ourselves at once in a difficult and dangerous position. Some of the man’s m

Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island

25 April 2022

Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the

Alistair HorneA Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

25 April 2022

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke, On Conciliation with America, 1775 The country SETTING the scene for the

Alistair HorneA Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

25 April 2022

As long as you keep Algiers, you will be constantly at war with Africa; sometimes this war will seem to end; but these people will not hate you any the less; it will be a half-extinguished fire that

Elizabeth GaskellWives And Daughters

25 April 2022

At ten o'clock on the eventful Thursday the Towers' carriage began its work. Molly was ready long before it made its first appearance, although it had been settled that she and the Miss Brownings we

Elizabeth GaskellWives And Daughters

25 April 2022

To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that

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