Lord Arthur Savile\'s Crime and other stories

Category： Author：novel 

 It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual.  Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tart...

TAG：

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

The House of the Vampire

Category： Author：George Sylvester Vier 

The freakish little leader of the orchestra, newly imported from Sicily to New York, tossed his conductor's wand excitedly through the air, drowning with musical thunders the hum of conversation and the clatter of plates. Yet neither his apish demeanour nor the deafening noises that responded to every movement of his agile body detrac...

TAG：

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink