CHAPTER I. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he...
CHAPTER XXXV The Tokens "And slight, withal, may be the things that bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside forever; it may be a sound, A flower, the wind, the ocean,...
Chapter VI. WEAK POINTS AND STRONG 1. Sun Tzu said: Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to...
Book One: Recalled to Life Chapter V. The Wine-shop A large cask of wine had been dropped and broken, in the street. The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out...
-CHAPTER XV SOLA TELLS ME HER STORY When consciousness returned, and, as I soon learned, I was down but a moment, I sprang quickly to my feet searching for my sword, and there I found it, buried to...
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen (1811) Chapter 34 Mrs. John Dashwood had so much confidence in her husband's judgment, that she waited the very next day both on Mrs. Jennings and her...
Chapter VIII. VARIATION IN TACTICS 1. Sun Tzu said: In war, the general receives his commands from the sovereign, collects his army and concentrates his forces 2. When in difficult country, do not...
THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me, out of such a wealth of...
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. 1] O you who believe! Fulfill (your) obligations. Lawful to you (for food) are all the beasts of cattle except that which will be...
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. 1] O you who believe! Fulfill (your) obligations. Lawful to you (for food) are all the beasts of cattle except that which will be...