Release Date November 10 2011: 72 books

M. de Tavannes smiled. Mademoiselle averted her eyes, and shivered; as if the air, even of that close summer night, entering by the door at her elbow, chilled her. And then came a welcome interruption.

The 4.15 from Victoria to Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone.

Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up.

(1643) It was about a month after my marriage - and third clerk to the most noble the Bishop of Beauvais, and even admitted on occasions to write in his presence and prepare his minutes, who should marry if I might not? - it was about a month after my marriage, I say, that the thunderbolt, to which I...

Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d'une obscurité et d'une épaisseur d'encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout droit, à travers les champs de betteraves. Devant lui, il ne voyait même pas le sol noir, et il n'avait...

But why should lordlings all our praise engross? Rise, honest man, and sing the Man of Ross.

The age of Elizabeth, memorable for so many reasons in the history of England, was especially brilliant in literature, and, within literature, in the drama. With some falling off in spontaneity, the impulse to great dramatic production lasted till the Long Parliament closed the theaters in 1642; and...

It is not often that youth allows itself to feel undividedly happy: the sensation is too much the result of selection and elimination to be within reach of the awakening clutch on life. But Kate Orme, for once, had yielded herself to happiness; letting it permeate every faculty as a spring rain soaks...

After the Lord's Second Coming, what will happen to those left behind? What will the Tribulation period be like? What will happen during the reign of the Antichrist? What is meant by The Mark of the Beast? What will be the fate of those who refuse to bear this mark?

Jarvis stretched himself as luxuriously as he could in the cramped general quarters of the Ares.

Pourquoi écrire ces pages? - À quoi sont-elles bonnes? - Qu'en sais-je moi-même? Cela est assez sot à mon gré d'aller demander aux hommes le motif de leurs actions et de leurs écrits. - Savez-vous vous-même pourquoi vous avez ouvert les misérables feuilles que la main d'un fou va tracer?

Pendant la nuit, le train avait eu de grands retards entre Pise et Cività Vecchia, et il allait être neuf heures du matin lorsque l’abbé Pierre Froment, après un dur voyage de vingtcinq heures, débarqua enfin à Rome. Il n’avait emporté qu’une valise, il sauta vivement du wagon, au milieu...

For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea - seemed to shatter them-selves upon an adamantine surface...

Tout le monde connaît ces rendez-vous en plein air, ces réjouissances annuelles et ambulantes qui appellent les amateurs de bruit, de poussière et de plaisir. La Foire aux Vanités est l'idéal du genre. On y trouve même cohue, même tumulte, mêmes éclats de rire; toutefois, à la différence de...