The Greatest Works of French Literature: 90+ Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Philosophical Essays...

... spade (without telling David) or David gives him the logs to saw (without telling Maggie). We have given James a longer time to make his move than our kind friends in front will give him, but in the meantime something has been happening.

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

... effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting. We may continue the reading of a prose ...

... bullet destined to go to the moon . ” " Do not let us exaggerate , my ... stability , I propose to give it a weight of 20,000 lbs . " " What will be ... calculator , Mr. Maston , will tell us at once . ” " Nothing is easier , " replied ...

... bullet destined to go to the moon . ” " Do not let us exaggerate , my ... stability , I propose to give it a weight of 20,000 lbs . " " What will be ... calculator , Mr. Maston , will tell us at once . ” " Nothing is easier , " replied ...

... force, or power, without the concurring aid and favour of his assisting ... cuckold, if it please God, nor shall we need to despair of the knowledge of ... cuckold, that is to say, your wife shall never be a strumpet, if you make choice ...

... Sword of Fate; Vessel of Life, through whom all Life flows, to whom it again is gathered; Recorder of Things Done ... dark cloud hanging over the Altar in and out of which a fiery Serpent climbed. Then all the Spirits clad in light fell upon ...

Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd ... Max's shore clothes, all washed, plaited, and ironed, and ready to put on at ... Max, not thirty I days previous. So long as we laid in port, Sally visited the ...

... window seat , sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their ... chords and runs with which he could not quarrel but which he had heard too ... chords hauntingly reminiscent of its full vigor that seemed still to linger in ...

... transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent . He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as Perrault and Francois and the Scotch half - breed had passed out ...

... of renewed hope for Gregory ? How could she confess such a weakness to her ... love you , " he protested . " Love me ; -yes , with what sort of love ? But ... playing at love , this would be an insult . " Then she saw her old friend ...

... speak French. And what is the reason for this extraordinary caution? Here it is: — ”If the person whom we suspect is really guilty, circumstances may have occurred to put him on his guard — and, in that case, he is a man to hesitate at ...

... amethyst. Involuntarily they halted. Alison pointed to lights a mile down ... frontier. Let's stop here for supper, and have our last look at Evallonia ... brave man,” he told himself. “The thing about you is that you're too much of a ...

... Lapham, rising as the boat drew near the wharf of the final landing, “there's going to be an awful accident on these boats. Just look at that jam.” He meant the people thickly packed on the pier, and under strong restraint of locks and ...

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

... murder," he said. "I am one of the hounds and not the wolf; Mr. Gregson or Mr. Lestrade will answer for that. Go on ... Columbine's New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff. He couldn't stand, far less help." "What sort of a man was he ...

... God bound and imprisoned in heaven what Boniface bound on earth." A famous ... character and behavior of St. Peter, it must be acknowledged that Paul is ... sheet descending from the four corners of it, which was filled with creeping ...

... John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes... Jack London. The. Faith. of. Men ... tattoo on the cleared space with his knuckles. Hutchinson snuffed the smoky candle and reflectively rubbed the soot from the wick ... mean, and you know it.” ...

Including the Autobiography & Collected Letters Rabindranath Tagore. RAGHUPATI. Crime? Yes, my crime was that, in my weakness, I delayed in carrying out Mother's service. The punishment comes from the Goddess. You are merely her ...

... law. The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralise about it. He did not even think the ...

... playing at love , this would be an insult . " Then she saw her old friend through the window . " Mrs. Brownlow , " she said , " Mr. Newton is going , and I am ready for our walk whenever you please . " " Think of it twice , Clarissa ...

... window seat , sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their ... chords and runs with which he could not quarrel but which he had heard too ... chords hauntingly reminiscent of its full vigor that seemed still to linger in ...

... done with the crying." A struggle went on in Trudel's mind; and for a moment she did not speak. She longed to keep her dear tulip, her one joy, and it seemed so hard to let it go before she had even seen it blossom once; but then the ...

... a stubby finger upward at the last line. This was considered the gem of the collection, and Billy took his seat proudly conscious that his native town boasted an orator who, in time, would utterly eclipse Edward Everett and Wendell.

... Jefferson Hope packed all the eatables that he could find into a small parcel, and filled a stoneware jar with water, for he knew by experience that the mountain wells were few and far between. He had hardly completed his arrangements ...