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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...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 17 A DISMAL SWAMP And now, in the blooming summer days, behold Mr and Mrs Boffin established in the eminently aristocratic family mansion, and behold all...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 14 STRONG OF PURPOSE The sexton-task of piling earth above John Harmon all night long, was not conducive to sound sleep; but Rokesmith had some broken...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens CHAPTER 16 AN ANNIVERSARY OCCASION The estimable Twemlow, dressing himself in his lodgings over the stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, and hearing...
CHAPTER FIVE The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman I sat down on the very crest of the pass and took stock of my position. Behind me was the road climbing through a long cleft in the hills, which...
CHAPTER SIX The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist I spent the night on a shelf of the hillside, in the lee of a boulder where the heather grew long and soft. It was a cold business, for I had...
BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by...
So as an astronomer, when I look at the sky with other people, they always ask me, "What is your favorite place in the universe? What is your favorite galaxy? What is your favorite...
Of all the spectacles mankind has viewed through a telescope, there are few lovelier than a spiral galaxy. Majestic whirlpools of stars, they rotate in a stately and predictable dance. The fact that...