Jwarlal: 262 books

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : Since Aramis’s singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period, the place which Aramis had held in the worthy governor’s...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : During all these long and noisy debates between the opposite ambitions of politics and love, one of our characters, perhaps the one least deserving of neglect, was, however, very much...

Extrait de ce classique populaire de Émile Souvestre : ON se trouvait aux derniers mois de l'année 1775. Deux hommes étaient assis l'un vis-à-vis de l'autre auprès d'un bureau chargé d'in-folios ouverts, de parchemins timbrés et de sacs à procès. Le costume du premier annonçait...

Extrait de ce classique populaire de Émile Souvestre : Le charme que prennent les faits et les idées dans les lointaines perspectives du passé est un phénomène connu de tout le monde, mais qui, pour quelques hommes, va jusqu’à la fascination. Attirés, non vers un résultat particulier...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : 'So to-morrow, Alice,' said Dr. Madden, as he walked with his eldest daughter on the coast-downs by Clevedon, 'I shall take steps for insuring my life for a thousand pounds.' It...

In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman. The sun tanned his light...

But there had soon been something else to talk of. It sprang out of the accident—and it was of particular interest to persons who, like Linford Pratt, were of the legal profession. John Mallathorpe, so far as anybody knew or could ascertain, had died intestate. No solicitor in the town had ever...

Il y avait une fois vingt-cinq soldats de plomb, tous frères, car ils étaient nés d’une vieille cuiller de plomb. L’arme au bras, l’œil fixe, l’uniforme rouge et bleu, quelle fière mine ils avaient tous ! La première chose qu’ils entendirent en ce monde, quand fut enlevé le couvercle...

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling...

Eternal peace is a chimera. Whatever pains we may take to avoid war, there always comes a moment when tradition and interest, passion and affection clash and bring to pass the shock which we desired to avoid, a shock which, in the conditions within which civilisation evolves, appears not merely inevitable,...

Florida—so named by its discoverers from the abundance, beauty and fragrance of its flowers. The Land of Flowers—what a beautiful sentiment. Alas, it was never called anything of the sort. Land happening to be first seen by the brave and sturdy warrior but not imaginative linguist, Juan Ponce...

Bulger was not himself at all, dear friends. There was a lack-lustre look in his eyes, and his tail responded with only a half-hearted wag when I spoke to him. I say half-hearted, for I always had a notion that the other end of Bulger’s tail was fastened to his heart. His appetite, too, had gone...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : "What can he tell that treads thy shore? No legend of thine olden time, No theme on which the mind might soar High as thine own in days of yore." The Giaour.—BYRON In...