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Excerpt from The Red PlanetLook smart and dashing, he covers the unpleasing a black shade. In ordinary workaday not how much he offends the aesthetic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original...

Excerpt from Stella MarisThe invention of this title must not be regarded as the supreme effort of the imagination of Walter Herold. It would have been Obvious to anybody with a' bowing acquaintance with the Latin tongue.Her name was Stella, and she passed her life by the sea - passed it away up on top Of a cliff on the South coast, passed it in one big, beautiful room that had big windows south and west, passed it in bed, ¿at on her back, wit...

Excerpt from VivietteKatherine Holroyd looked up from her needlework. She was a gentle, fair-haired woman of thirty, with demure blue eyes, which regarded the girl with a mingling of pity, protection, and amusement.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from JafferyYes. Let us be serious. In the first place you oughtn't to allude to Doria's father as 'old man Jorni croft.' It isn't respectful.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original...

Excerpt from The Rough RoadThat the world knows little of its greatest men is a commonplace among silly aphorisms. With far more justice it may be stated that of its least men the world knows nothing and cares less. Yet the Doggies of the War, who on the cry of Havoc have been let loose, much to their own and everybody else's stupefaction, deserve the passing tribute sometimes, poor fellows, of a sigh, sometimes of a smile, often of a cheer. V...

Excerpt from SeptimusAt any rate, my dear, she said that evening, as she paused, candle in hand, by her bedroom-door at any rate, I hope you'll do nothing that is unbecoming to a gentlewoman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reco...

Excerpt from The Demagogue and Lady Phayre"If you are coming my way, Goddard, we may as well walk back together, " said the Member, putting on his fur-lined coat.Mr. Aloysius Gleam, member for Sunington, was a spare, precisely dressed little man on the hither side of forty. He was somewhat bald, and clean-shaven all to a tightly-screwed fair moustache. A gold-rimmed eye-glass added a quaint of air alertness to a shrewd, sharp-featured face.God...

Excerpt from The Joyous Adventures of Aristide PujolIn this fashion I left Montpellier one morning on my leisurely eastward journey, deciding to break Off from the main road, striking due south, and Visit aigues-mortes on the way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

Excerpt from Far-Away StoriesTwice a day it was his habit to walk there, shops and faces a meaningless confusion to his eyes, but his ears alert to the many harmonies of the orches tra of the great thoroughfare. For Angelo Fardetti was a musician. Such had he been born, such bad he lived. Those aspects of life which could not be interpreted in terms of music were to him unin telligible. During his seventy years empires had crumbled, mighty kin...

Excerpt from The UsurperHe moved, with a small knot of men with whom he was talking, from the vestibule into the Board Room, where a polite crowd scrambled for tea. And there, near the entrance, stood Lady Alicia Harden. In her eyes, as they met his, was the same half grave, half humorous look of interest. He felt irresistibly drawn to her. Overcoming a natural shyness, he turned aside from his companions.About the PublisherForgotten Books pub...

Excerpt from IdolsBut now and then the way of life is lit with lurid suddenness and the mine is sprung.Beneath the surface of four gentle lives such a train was smouldering. The vulgar crime of the two nameless abjects set it ablaze. And they, issu ing from the darkness for one ghastly moment, were but blind, almost impersonal instruments of Destiny, so far as they concerned these four.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from Simon the JesterWhat I want, said I, is a place compared to which Golgotha, Aceldama, the Dead Sea, the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and Ratcliff Highway would be leafy bowers of uninterrupted delight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology ...

Excerpt from The Belovéd VagabondWhy he singled me out for adoption from among the nu washed urchins oi London I never could conjecture. Once I asked him.Because, said he, you were ugly, dirty, ricketty, under sized, underfed and wholly uninteresting. Also because your mother was the very worst washer-woman that ever breathed gin into a shirt-front.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fi...

Excerpt from The House of Baltazar But for the war, the story would scarcely be worth the telling, however interesting might be his sheer personality and his calculated waywardness. It would have led no whither, save to a stage or two further on his journey to the grave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an import...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The Tale of Triona Olivia smiled and tapped the blue-veined hand that set down his teacup. Of course you can't. If imagination ran away with a solicitor, it would land him in the workhouse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne It was a very curious ship. There was no creak of the woodwork, no throb of the engines, no motion. The silence of death was only broken by a queer, rhythmical scrunching sound, which seemed like the lap of idle waves against the vessel's side. Either the engines had broken down or the ship was becalmed or befogged. He snuggled up in the retrieved blanket, all the bedclothes that the ship afford...

Excerpt from The Wonderful Year Had taught the dry examination-bones of language for ten years. And - Monsieur rear, from Monsieur Bocardonl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original f...