eBooks
-
A Ride Across PalestineA Ride Across PalestineCircumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
A Daughter of the LandA Daughter of the Land Kate Bates followed the narrow footpath rounding the corner of the small country church, as the old minister raised his voice slowly and impressively to repeat the command he had selected for his text. Fearing that her head would...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New WorldFrance and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World The springs of American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the clear light of History. In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Returning HomeReturning HomeIt is generally supposed that people who live at home,good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Mistletoe BoughThe Mistletoe BoughThe point in dispute was one very delicate in its nature, hardly to be discussed in all its bearings, even in fiction, and the very mention of which between mother and daughter showed a great amount of close confidence between them. It...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
George Walker at SuezGeorge Walker at SuezOf all the spots on the worlds surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have ever visited, Suez in Egypt, at the head of the Red Sea, is by far the vilest, the most unpleasant, and the least interesting....
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneThe Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneThe prettiest scenery in all Englandand if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Europeis in Devonshire, on the southern and south-eastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves,...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Mrs. General TalboysMrs. General TalboysWhy Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never clearly understood. To myself she explained her purposes, soon after her arrival at the Eternal City, by declaring, in her own enthusiastic manner,...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Parenticide ClubThe Parenticide Club Having murdered my mother under circumstances of singular atrocity, I was arrested and put upon my trial, which lasted seven years. In charging the jury, the judge of the Court of Acquittal remarked that it was one of the most ghastly...
- HK$52.41
HK$167.76- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
UndineUndine Undine, thou image fair and blest, Since first thy strange mysterious glance, Shone on me from some old romance, How hast thou sung my heart to rest! How hast thou clung to me and smiled, And wouldest, whispering in my ear, Give vent...
- HK$52.41
HK$167.76- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Aaron TrowAaron TrowI would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional geographers take me up, and say that no...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Chateau of Prince PolignacThe Chateau of Prince PolignacFew Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, for it is in...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThe Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThat Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world....
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
An Unprotected Female at the PyramidsAn Unprotected Female at the PyramidsIn the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Love EternalLove Eternal You, whose privilege it is by instruction and example to strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees of many, may perhaps care to read of one whose human love led her from darkness into light and on to the gates...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
An Introduction to Chemical ScienceAn Introduction to Chemical ScienceTitle: An Introduction to Chemical Science Author: Rufus P. Williams Release Date: February 1, 2003 [EBook #3708] Language: English Project Gutenberg Etext of An Introduction to Chemical Science by R.P. Williams Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four MillionThe Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear shop-girls spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
The Valiant RunawaysThe Valiant Runaways Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his thumbs thrust into the red silk sash that was knotted about his waist, his cambric shirt open at the throat as if pulled impatiently apart; the soft...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
Happy HawkinsHappy Hawkins I wasn't really a Westerner an' that's why I'm so different from most of 'em. Take your regular bonie fide Westerner an' when he dies he don't turn to dust, he turns to alkali; but when it comes my turn to settle,...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per
-
A Naturalist's Voyage Round the WorldJournal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. I have stated in the preface to the first Edition of this work, and...
- HK$52.41
HK$104.86- HK$52.41
- Unit price
- per