Biographies & Memoirs
epub |eng | 1963-01-07 | Author:Plath, Sylvia [Plath, Sylvia]

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.... The thick book ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the ...
( Category: Memoirs November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-02-01 | Author:Pirsig, Robert M. [Pirsig, Robert M.]

I was talking about the first wave of crystallization outside of rhetoric that resulted from Phædrus’ refusal to define Quality. He had to answer the question, If you can’t define ...
( Category: Buddhism November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1953-01-05 | Author:Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan [Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan]

Chapter 23 The afternoon in late November was brooding, making ready for the first snow. The yet unfrozen earth was gray. The winter wheat was a brave pale green before ...
( Category: Regional U.S November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1926-01-15 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

“I say. You know this does utilize well.” Bill slapped him on the back. “Good old Harris.” “I say. You know my name isn’t really Harris. It’s Wilson Harris. All ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Salmonson, Jessica Amanda [Salmonson, Jessica Amanda]

L Labé, Louise: (A.D. 1526–1566) In her youth, this daughter of a Lyons ropemaker was fond of music, hunting, and military exercise, and regularly participated in tourneys. Before she was ...
( Category: Women's Studies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-12 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

FOURTEEN A NEW DAY. Ettinger telephones, offering to lend them a gun ‘for the meanwhile’. ‘Thank you,’ he replies. ‘We’ll think about it.’ He gets out Lucy’s tools and repairs ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-15 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-01 | Author:Burnett, Frances Hodgson [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

14 A Young Rajah The moor was hidden in mist when the morning came, and the rain had not stopped pouring down. There could be no going out of doors. ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1933-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE NEXT DAY CAME gray and still with unfinished rain of summer and the sky pressed low over the valley heavy with its burden of the rain, and the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1877-12-17 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

Chapter XV. Valentin de Bellegarde’s announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile, and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Tóibín, Colm [Tóibín, Colm]

CHAPTER EIGHT June 1898 HE WATCHED HIS FRIEND the novelist moving towards the window in the drawing room, but did not suggest to her that she might be more comfortable ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: World Literature November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1849-01-15 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1819-01-01 | Author:Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]

CHAPTER XIII I NOW HASTEN TO the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )