This is a story about a young man named Henry who wants to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He leaves his mother behind and finds himself in a company of friends and strangers. This group of...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton CHAPTER XXI. The small bright lawn stretched away smoothly to the big bright sea. The turf was hemmed with an edge of scarlet geranium and coleus, and cast-iron...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 11 PODSNAPPERY Mr Podsnap was well to do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap's opinion. Beginning with a good inheritance, he had married a good...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 10 THE DOLLS' DRESSMAKER DISCOVERS A WORD A darkened and hushed room; the river outside the windows flowing on to the vast ocean; a figure on the...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 6 A CRY FOR HELP The Paper Mill had stopped work for the night, and the paths and roads in its neighbourhood were sprinkled with clusters of people going...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 7 THE FRIENDLY MOVE TAKES UP A STRONG POSITION The friendly movers sat upright on the floor, panting and eyeing one another, after Mr Boffin had slammed...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 3 THE SAME RESPECTED FRIEND IN MORE ASPECTS THAN ONE In sooth, it is Riderhood and no other, or it is the outer husk and shell of Riderhood and no other,...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 4 A HAPPY RETURN OF THE DAY Mr and Mrs Wilfer had seen a full quarter of a hundred more anniversaries of their wedding day than Mr and Mrs Lammle had seen...
BOOK SECOND I Those occasions on which Strether was, in association with the exile from Milrose, to see the sacred rage glimmer through would doubtless have their due periodicity; but our friend had...
THE ART OF WAR elsta Military ritgerð IN THE WORLD eftir Tzu SUN Kafla IX. Herinn ON THE MARS 1. Sun Tzu sagði: Við komum nú til spurning um encamping her, og fylgjast með merki um að óvinurinn. Pass...