Percival Wilde eBooks
eBooks di Percival Wilde editi da Librorium Editions
La Boutique du diable. E-book. Formato EPUB Percival Wilde - Librorium Editions, 2026 -
Elle avait dix-neuf ans. Pas jolie, mais sans contredit d’apparence débrouillarde. Personne, évidemment, n’eût songé à la trouver jolie. Il suffisait de regarder son nez. Ce bec d’épervier – il n’y avait pas d’autre mot pour le qualifier – ce bec qui émergeait d’entre des traits menus, et qui respirait tout à la fois l’astuce naïve et une énergie faite d’obstination, écartait indiscutablement sa propriétaire de la catégorie des jolies femmes. Dix ans plus tard, semblables appendices, pour peu que leurs détenteurs eussent eu quelque fortune, auraient pu subir des retouches. La magie du bistouri aurait en un rien de temps métamorphosé ces éclatants porte-drapeau en protubérances inexpressives et molles, plus au goût du XXe siècle. Mais, en 1889, l’humanité respectait l’œuvre de la Nature et subissait ses caprices avec une passivité résignée.
Design for Murder. E-book. Formato EPUB Percival Wilde - Librorium Editions, 2024 -
I, PRISCILLA EVANS, am telling this story. When Jim Halsey had The Idea, and Cynthia Carter said that we ought to have a historian, Pete Logan said that there wasn't one of us that couldn't write up what happened— or was going to happen— better than the average mystery-story writer; so we didn't put any particular marble in the bag for him— or for her— if that's clear, which I'm afraid it isn't.Pete said, "Any one of us could write it. I've had stories rejected by three regular magazines, and Priss had any number of pieces published by her college literary paper, and I don't know which is worse. And Hilary once got into trouble by writing too many letters to a girl he had no intention of marrying—""It cost me ten thousand," Hilary Densmore said."—and was cheap at that," said Pete. "I saw the girl.""Come, come," said Hilary, "she wasn't as bad as that. Of course the detectives didn't find out until it was too late that she had at least one husband living, and couldn't have married me even if I had been willing to go through with it; but sometimes I get positively homesick for her. Snappy black eyes; snappy figure; snappy dresser—"