akorn - Mighty Old Tales Retold
Fiction
The Time Machine - Ch V
H G Wells
As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.
'I looked for the building I knew. Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter. I could see the silver birch against it. There was the tangle of rhododendron bushes, black in the pale light, and there was the little lawn. I looked at the lawn again. A queer doubt chilled my complacency. "No," said I stoutly to myself, "that was not the lawn."
'But it was the lawn. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone!
Peter Pan - Chapter 1
The Admirable Crichton - Act IV - THE END
The Admirable Crichton - Act III
The Admirable Crichton - Act II
The Admirable Crichton - Act I
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 25, 26, 27, 28 - THE END
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 22, 23, 24
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapter 21
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 19 & 20
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 16, 17, 18
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 14 & 15
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 12 & 13
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 10 & 11
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 8 & 9
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 6 & 7
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 4 & 5
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapters 2 & 3
From the Earth to the Moon - Chapter 1
The Thirty Nine Steps - Chapter Ten - THE END
The Thirty Nine Steps - Chapter Nine
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