This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. There has been a nuclear war on Earth, and from the ashes rose a new society with a world government run from the capital city built on Manhattan Island after Manhattan was obliterated by a "sun-bomb." Far out in space, a four-eyed, eight-armed alien known only as "the Nipe" is looking for someplace to set down and repair his damaged, gradually failing spaceship. Nipe crashes on earth and begins to wreak carnage and death as it tries to survive and to find a way off the planet. No one survives contact with the alien and no one can determine the reasons for its actions. The only solution appears to be to develop an enhanced human to confront and defeat the alien.
Lydia was looking forward with pleasure neither to giving Madame Elena the week's notice stipulated for on her engagement, nor to explaining to Miss Forster that she was about to enter the establishment of Miss Forster's dear friends, ...
... It's so quiet, and we are alone.” “Yes, it's very quiet,” said Catherine vaguely, looking about her. “Won't you come back to the carriage?” “In a moment. Do you mean that in all this time you have not yielded an inch?” “I would if I could, ...
over the solicitor's shoulder — yes, it was Mason himself. Mr. Rochester turned and glared at him. His eye, as I have often said, was a black eye: it had now a tawny, nay, a bloody light in its gloom; and his face flushed — olive cheek ...
Signed, Richard Mason.'” “That—if agenuine document—may proveI havebeen married, but it does not prove thatthe woman mentioned therein asmy wifeisstill living.” “Shewasliving three months ago,” returned the lawyer. “How doyouknow?
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Prime Minister (The Classic Unabridged Edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Prime Minister is the fifth of the "Palliser" series of novels.
THE IDEAL MADE REAL To have ideals is not only simple but natural. It is just as natural for the mind to enter the ideal as it is to live. In fact, the ideal is an inseparable part of life; but to make the ideal real in every part of ...
... and a desk and stool in the corner of the dark counting-house in Crane Alley, surmounting in height those of Owen, and the other clerks, and only inferior to the tripod of my father himself. All was wrong from that moment.
The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales.
James opened his eyes, bright and unnatural, and the dilated pupils gave them a strangely piercing expression. "Does she want to?" "It would make her very happy." "Does she know that enteric is horrid to nurse?