Fiction Books

Claude Gueux

  [french | 1834]  

Victor Hugo

Summary: [Claude Gueux condamn de la prison pour le vol dun pain se retrouve perscut par un gardien de prison. La seule issue que trouve Claude Gueux cette injustice est le meurtre de cet homme...Victor Hugo sest dj engag dans le combat contre la peine de mort dans un roman prcdent Les Derniers Jours dun condamn mort. Cest en lisant dans la gazette des tribunaux le procs de Claude Gueux que Victor Hugo ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 312

Clean Break

  [english | 1953]  

Roger Aycock

Summary: [A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed?but Watts had to help any sick animal....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 355

Cleek The Man Of The Forty Faces

  [english | 1912]  

Thomas Hanshew

Summary: [An ex-cracksman turned Scotland Yard detective Cleeks slim and faultlessly dressed form is topped by an india-rubber-like face of which he has remarkable control. With the power to distort and transform his visage and mimic any mannerism he desires Cleek (with the assistance of his cockney assistant Dollops) makes a super natural detective!]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 306

Clemencia

  [spanish | 1869]  

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano

Summary: [El argumento desarrolla el caso de un hombre que vive un amor dramtico relacionado con episodios de la guerra civil. Se ha dicho que esta obra contiene muchos trozos enteramente autobiogrficos y que Altamirano pas por algn trance ntimo semejante al que describe en el protagonista de Clemencia.La historia comienza presentndonos a dos mujeres Clemencia (morena) e Isabel (rubia) opuestas las dos en ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | romance] Downloads: 378

Cleopatra

  [english | 1889]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Summary: [Includes bibliographical references (xxv-xxvi).]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | romance] Downloads: 210

Code Three

  [english | 1963]  

Raphael Rick

Summary: [The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (formerly the Sturgis Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure by Alice Sturgis) is a book of rules of order. It is the second most popular parliamentary authority in the United States after Roberts Rules of Order. It was first published in 1950. Following the death of the original author in 1988 the third (1988) and fourth (2001) editions of this work ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 385

Coeur Dacier Les Habits Noirs Tome Ii

  [french | 1865]  

Paul Feval Pere

Summary: [Cet pisode nous conte lascension criminelle de la belle aventurire Marguerite Sadoulas dite Marguerite de Bourgogne devenue comtesse de Clare et lun des principaux chefs des Habits noirs ainsi que la lutte du jeune Roland de Clare lhritier lgitime de la fortune et du nom de Clare pour retrouver son hritage convoit par les Habits noirs et son identit.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 97

Cogito Ergo Sum

  [english | 1954]  

John Foster West

Summary: [A warped instant in Space--and two egos are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 260

Collectivum

  [english | 1953]  

Mike Lewis

Summary: [The Oren were one and their strength was legion. They had it all figured out in their own parasitical cold-blooded way. But theyd neglected one she-cat of a girl....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 183

Collectors Item

  [english | 1954]  

Evelyn Smith

Summary: [Being trapped in the steaming h--l of Venus is no excuse for forgetting ones manners--but anyone abducted marooned tricked kept from tea might well crack under the strain!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 306

Colloque Entre Monos Et Una

  [french | 1845]  

Edgar Allan Poe

Excerpts: [... - Comme tu fais 'etrangement 'echo `a mes paroles, douce Una! J'observe aussi une vacillation dans ta d'emarche, - une joyeuse inqui'etude dans ...... nous s'eparer `a jamais! Ainsi, avec le temps, aimer devint une douleur. Pour lors, la haine nous e^ut 'et'e une mis'ericorde. MONOS. - Ne parle pas ...... Chacun des cinq ou six si`ecles qui pr'ec'ed`erent notre mort vit, `a un ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 71

Colonel Chabert

  [english | 1832]  

Honore De Balzac

Summary: [Bibliography: p.xc-cii.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 368

Colonel Quaritch Vc

  [english | 1888]  

Henry Rider Haggard

Summary: [Microfilm.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 129

Combat

  [english | 1960]  

Mack Reynolds

Summary: [On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace was written by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman with Loren Christensen and published by PPCT Research Publications in 2004. This book explores in detail what physically and mentally happens to most people when confronted with a deadly threat. Both authors have written previous books dealing with this subject. This ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 470

Compatible

  [english | 1958]  

Richard Smith

Summary: [There are many ways--murder included--in which husbands can settle certain problems. This was even more drastic!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 358

Competition

  [english | 1955]  

James Causey

Summary: [They would learn what caused the murderous disease--if it was the last thing they did!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 246

Concrete Bouquet

  [english | 2002]  

Richard Kadrey

Excerpts: []
Genres: [fiction | romance | short stories] Downloads: 377

Condemned As A Nihilist

  [english | 1893]  

G Henty

Summary: [There are few difficulties that cannot be surmounted by patience resolution and pluck and great as are the obstacles that nature and the Russian government oppose to an escape from the prisons of Siberia such evasions have occasionally been successfully carried out and that under far less advantageous circumstances than those under which the hero of this story undertook the venture.]
Genres: [fiction | historical | juvenile] Downloads: 414

Confessions Of A Mnemonist

  [english | 2002]  

Richard Kadrey

Excerpts: [... maybe a tab of Sky Saw to turn on the flood lights in my skull and drown out the world with white electric jitters. This ain't no party. This ain't no ...... the fog?). I need to turn off the past. To escape the third grade. Summer barbecues. The snows of Stalingrad. The day God drowned the world. Fun ...... ninety-nine, two forty-four p.m.), bright and colored like an infant's ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 119

Confidence

  [english | 1879]  

Henry James

Summary: [Confidence by James Foley. When professional grifter Jake Vig Edward Burns chooses the wrong mark in The King Dustin Hoffman he is given two choices pull off a near impossible heist or lose his life. Needing all the help he can get Jake brings in beautiful con artist Lily Rachel We isz and a mixed group of professionals. Nonetheless with The King riding him and a pesky Special Agent Andy Garcia ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 73