Civil Engineering

by Alan Williams

Mix proportions may be specified either by weight or by volume in terms of the ratios of fine aggregate and coarse aggre...

Civil engineering materials

by Shan Somayaji

Civil Engineering

by R. S. Khurmi, J.K. Gupta

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Civil engineering handbook

by Leonard Church Urquhart

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

De la terre à la lune

by Jules Verne

Pendant la guerre fédérale des États-Unis, un nouveau club très- influent s'établit dans la ville de Balt...

Estimating and Costing in Civil Engineering

by B.N. Dutta

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Le roman du masque de fer

by Alexandre Dumas

SINCE Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...

The Thirty-Nine Steps

by John Buchan

I RETURNED from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.