Books with author Charles 1814-1884 Reade

Excerpt from It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Vol. 2 of 3: A Matter of Fact RomanceThe turnkeys looked in their chief's face with a strange expression Of stupid wonder. Hawes caught this - his wrath rose higher.What d'ye stand staring at me like stuck pigs for? Come out, N O. 15. You all! Why don't you bring him out to the crank?' Hodges answered gloomily from the cell, Come and bring him yourself, if you can.' At such an address from a turnkey, Hawes, who had now mounted the last stair, gave a snort of surprise and wrath - then darted into the cell threatening the most horrible vengeance on the bones and body of poor Josephs, threats which he confirmed with a tremendous oath. But to that oath succeeded a sudden dead stupid staring silence; for running fiercely into the cell with rage in his face, threats and curses on his tongue, he had almost stumbled over a corpse.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Foul Play, Vol. 3 of 3The Springbok arrived in due course at longi tude 103 deg. 80 min., but saw no island. This was dispiriting but still Captain Moreland did not despair.He asked General Rolleston to examine the Writing carefully, and tell him was that Miss Rol leston's hand-writing.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cream: By Charles Reade Contains Jack of All Trades, a Matter-of-Fact Romance, and the Autobiography of a ThiefA thief is a man: and a man's life is like those geographical fragments children learn the contagious countries' by. The pieces are a puzzle but put them together carefully and lo 1 they are a map.The thief then mapped his puzzle; and I think his work will stand.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from It Is Never to Late to MendThis attempt at a solid fiction is, with their permission, dedicated to the President, Fellows and demies of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, by a grateful son of that ancient, learned, and nost charitable house.Discontented as he was, the expression hereinbefore written would have seemed profane to young Fielding, for a farmer's farm and a sailor's ship have always some thing sacred in the sufferer's eyes, though one sends one to jail, and the other the other to Jones.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from It Is Never Too Late to Mend, Vol. 1 of 3: A Matter of Fact RomanceThis position is not so enviable as it was years ago, the farmers of England, had they been as intelligent as other traders, could have purchased the English soil by means of the huge per centage it offered them.But now, I grieve to say, a farmer must be as sharp as his neighbours, or like his neighbours he Will break. What do I say? There are soils and situations Where, in spite of intelligence and sobriety, he is almost sure to break just as there are shops Where the lively, the severe, the industrious, the lazy, are fractured alike.This last fact I make mine by perambulating a certain great street every three months, and observing how name succeeds to name as wave to wave.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Good Fight: And Other TalesNot a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs, the greater part will never be known till that day, when many that are great shall be small, and the small great: but of others the world's knowledge may be said to sleep. Their lives and characters lie hid den from nations in the very annals that record them. The general reader can not feel them, they are presented so curtly and coldly: they are not like breathing stories appealing to his heart, but little historic hailstones strik ing him only to glance off his bosom: nor can he under stand them; for epitomes are not narratives, as skeletons are not human figures.Thus records of prime truths sometimes remain a dead letter to plain folk; the writers have left so much to the imagination, and imagination is so rare a gift. Here, then, the writer of fiction may be of use to the public as an interpreter.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth, And, Singleheart and Doubleface: A Matter-of-Fact RomanceUniform library edition, In Seventeen Volumes. Set in long-primer type printed on laid paper, and elegantly bound In cloth, 3s. 6d. Each.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Foul Play, Vol. 1 of 2There are places which appear at first sight inaccessi ble to romance: and such a place was Mr. Wardlaw's dining room in Russell Square. It was very large, had sickly green walls, picked out with aldermen, full length; heavy maroon curtains; mahogany chairs; a turkey car pet an inch thick: and was lighted with wax candles only.In the centre, bristling and gleaming with silver and glass, was a round table, at which fourteen could have dined comfortably; and at Opposite sides Of this table sat two gentlemen, who looked as neat, grave, precise, and unromantic, as the place: Merchant Wardlaw, and his son.Wardlaw senior was an elderly man, tall, thin, iron gray, with a round head, a short thick neck, 3. Good brown eye, a square jowl that betokened resolution, and a complexion so sallow as to be almost cadaverous. Hard as iron: but a certain stiff dignity and respectability sat upon him, and became him.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from White Lies, Vol. 1 of 3: A StoryA French theme has been selected, French sources drawn upon, and French idioms sprinkled, on one principle of art.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 format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.