The Age of Innocence av Edith Wharton kapittel IX. The Countess Olenska hadde sagt "etter fem", og på halv etter time Newland Archer ringte til peeling stucco huset med en gigantisk...
CHAPTER 13 During this time that Jurgis was looking for work occurred the death of little Kristoforas, one of the children of Teta Elzbieta. Both Kristoforas and his brother, Juozapas, were cripples,...
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those...
Sanja Primorac: This is one of those items that are just beautiful and tell the story about region and about a woman whom it belonged. It belonged to an inmate, whose name was Katica Grudenic, from...
Chapter 5 Cyrus Harding and his companions slept like innocent marmots in the cave which the jaguar had so politely left at their disposal. At sunrise all were on the shore at the extremity of the...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Chapter XXXIII In her furred travelling-dress, Estella seemed more delicately beautiful than she had ever seemed yet, even in my eyes. Her manner was more winning...
[children chattering] (John-Boy) BEING A COUNTRY BOY ON WALTON'S MOUNTAIN AND LOOKING LIKE ONE ALWAYS SEEMED AS NATURAL AND ME. BUT A FEW DAYS BEFORE MY GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, I BEGAN TO...
CHAPTER X OLIVER BECOMES BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH THE CHARACTERS OF HIS NEW ASSOCIATES; AND PURCHASES EXPERIENCE AT A HIGH PRICE. BEING A SHORT, BUT VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER, IN THIS HISTORY For many...
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely...