Books For The Letter S. Page 1 Of 68

A Sailor Lass

  [english | 1893]  

Emma Leslie

Excerpts: [... and occasionally see a rocket piercing the midnight blackness of the sky, appealing for help for the drowning men. At the coastguard station, ...... to disturb the child. Well, I want a tub of hot water, snapped Mrs. Peters. You'll find the tub in the backyard, and the kettle's near on the boil. ...... sharp voice was heard calling for the blanket long before he had groped his way ...]
Genres: [young readers | nautical | adventure] Downloads: 455

A Sailor Of King George

  [english | ]  

Frederick Hoffman

Excerpts: [... eighteen to twenty years of age. Their toast in a full bumper of grog of an evening was usually, A bloody war and a sickly season. Some few were gentlemanly, ...... him to the admiral it was but good policy for the mids to be on the alert. As all the lieutenants were constantly changing, those promoted making room ...... to cut out a Spanish zebec, is taken prisoner-His pleasant ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 230

A Sappho Of Green Springs

  [english | 1891]  

Bret Harte

Excerpts: [... if you grope. I've heard all that she's heard there-the creepin', the sighin', and the whisperin' through the bracken and the ground-vines of all ...... not look up until he had finished revising a difficult paragraph. By that time Mr. Hamlin had comfortably settled himself on a cane sofa, and, possibly ...... Or may be you think I make poetry for nothing. That's where you slip up. ...]
Genres: [western] Downloads: 11

A School History Of The Great War

  [english | 1918]  

Charles Coulomb

Summary: [This book was incredible. so very helpful. im not studying the great war but as a person who wanted to just know more about it this book really worked. its very easy to understand. a good read as well as informative.]
Genres: [history | war] Downloads: 124

A Scientific System of Sweating

  [english | 1919]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The one factor that was missing in all these revolutions but which was present in October 1917 was the subjective factor a workers leadership capable of preparing in good season the working class for the socialist transformation of society. It was the policy and the tactics of the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky which led the Russian workers to victory. Lenin prepared ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 252

A Scientist Rises

  [english | 1932]  

Desmond Winter Hall

Summary: [The face of the giant was indeed that of a god]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930 | short story] Downloads: 193

A Se Tordre

  [french | 1891]  

Alphonse Allais

Excerpts: [... se tordre. se tordre, by Alphonse Allais. Title: se tordre. Author: Alphonse Allais. Language: French. Produced by Ebooks libres et gratuits ...... que la baronne remplit son verre d’un infiniment vieux cognac, il saisit les soucoupes de ses voisins et les dispose en pile devant lui. Et ...... la cour le premier. Ce mange ne pouvait durer bien longtemps, et un beau jour George ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 98

A Sea Queen Sailing

  [english | 1906]  

Charles Whistler

Excerpts: [... bear a Scottish name, he said. Have you no Scottish kin besides Melbrigda.. I shook my head, whereon Dalfin spoke for me. Here, he said, ...... can well believe it. He is the only one of all that crowd who is worth a thought. It is the first time they have let me sail with him-it is but a chance ...... southward, but we could not tell, and maybe we expected him to see nothing. But ...]
Genres: [nautical | adventure | fiction and literature] Downloads: 365

A Second Book Of Operas

  [english | ]  

Henry Edward Krehbiel

Summary: [Biblical operas.--Bible stories in opera and oratorio.--Rubinstein and his Geistlich oper.--Samson et Dalila.--Die konigin von Saba.--He?rodiade.--Lakme?.--Pagliacci.--Cavalleria rusticana.--The career of Mascagni.--Iris.--Madame Butterfly.--Der rosenkavalier.--Konigskinder.--Boris Godounoff.--Madame Sans-Ge?ne and other operas by Giordano.--Two operas by Wolf-Ferrari.]
Genres: [reference | music] Downloads: 201

A Second Home

  [english | 1845]  

Honor De Balzac

Summary: [A House is Not a Home is the 1953 autobiography of the famous New York madam Polly Adler.]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 89

A Secret Of The Lebombo

  [english | 1905]  

Bertram Mitford

Summary: [Another well-written adventure in South Africa from this author with gallant romance included. Mitfords writing pleases especially because of his vivid description of localities and irony regarding British and native people. The key however is in the fascinating stories themselves that are woven into the novel.]
Genres: [adventure] Downloads: 499

A Select Party

  [english | 1844]  

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 481

A Selection From The Discourses Of Epictetus With The Encheiridion

  [english | ]  

Epictetus

Excerpts: [... to be destroyed? By no means say so, but speak rather in this way: This man who has been mistaken and deceived about the most important things, ...... lose that which is your own. Having such promptings and commands from Zeus, what kind do you still ask from me? Am I more powerful than he, am I more ...... trouble have I, what master have I still? What then, ought we to publish ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 416

A Selection Of Books Published By Methuen And Co Ltd

  [english | 1911]  

Anonymous

Excerpts: [... Royal 8vo. 10s. 6d. . THE TRAGEDY OF THE CSARS: A STUDY OF THE CHARACTERS OF THE CSARS OF THE JULIAN AND CLAUDIAN HOUSES. Illustrated. Seventh Edition. ...... INTRODUCTION. With a concise Bibliography. Sixth Edition. Cr. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Benson (Archbishop). GOD'S BOARD. Communion Addresses. Second Edition. ...... 7s. 6d. . SECRET CHAMBERS AND HIDING-PLACES. Illustrated. Third and ...]
Genres: [reference] Downloads: 367

A Senhora Rattazzi

  [english | 1880]  

Camilo Castelo Branco

Excerpts: [... acha que o zangarem-se os portuguezes beliscados por madame falta de espirito. Assim como, no dizer da princeza de pacotilha, il y a ventre ...... no segredo dos processos e, se no batem nos homens, no porque elles o no meream. O amigo de madame, esse, tem de apanhar do sexo, mais hoje, mais ...... luz, obra entre cinco e sete tostes-740 reis com estampilha. Por isso, antes quero ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 354

A Sentimental Journey

  [english | 1768]  

Laurence Sterne

Summary: [A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne written and first published in 1768 as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 333

A Separate Peace

  [english | 1899]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The honor of beginning the February 1917 revolution fell to the women textile workers of Petrograd on International Womens Day. Indignant at bread rations whilst the capitalists made fabulous war profits and with many of them having husbands and sons at the front 90000 came out on strike. The next day half the industrial workers struck in support. Slogans of Down with the aristocracy down with ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 37

A Series Of Lessons In Gnani Yoga

  [english | 1906]  

Yogi Ramacharaka

Summary: [William Walker Atkinson (December 5 1862 ? November 22 1932) was an attorney merchant publisher and author as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka. Due in part to Atkinsons intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms he is now ...]
Genres: [non fiction | religion | instructional] Downloads: 302

A Series Of Lessons In Raja Yoga

  [english | 1906]  

Yogi Ramacharaka

Summary: [William Walker Atkinson (December 5 1862 ? November 22 1932) was an attorney merchant publisher and author as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont and Yogi Ramacharaka. Due in part to Atkinsons intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms he is now ...]
Genres: [non fiction | health | instructional] Downloads: 300

A Serious Lesson and a Serious Responsibility

  [english | 1917]  

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Summary: [The Russian Revolution of 1917 is also called the Bolshevik Revolution or the October Revolution. In 1917 there were actually two revolutions in Russia. One was the February Revolution in which the Tsar abdicated his throne and the Provisional Government took power. The other was the October Revolution in which the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks. The Russian Revolution ...]
Genres: [political | revolutionary | social history] Downloads: 53