Arts & Literature
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Gregor Von Rezzori [Rezzori, Gregor Von]

The Sister A child’s paintings on some sheets of paper: large, wondrously dark-shaded flowers, stemless and floating in space as in the world of the blind. Next to it an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1857-01-01 | Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth [Gaskell, Elizabeth]

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1860-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXX AFTER WELL CONSIDERING THE matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick’s being the ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Blatty, William Peter [Blatty, William Peter]

III: The Abyss They said, "What sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" —John 6: 30-31 ... A [Vietnam] brigade commander once ran a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-02 | Author:De Quincey, Thomas [De Quincey, Thomas]

( Category: Arts & Literature November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1903-01-15 | Author:Keller, Helen [Keller, Helen]

In the Study at Cambridge As to the two-handed alphabet, I think it is much easier for those who have sight than the manual alphabet; for most of the letters ...
( Category: Specific Groups November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

TO HERBERT GREENE 5 St. James’s Street | London S.W. 1 | 17th June 1952 Dear Herbert, I am sending a lot of pants and vests etc. which I weeded ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-24 | Author:Barrie, J M. [Barrie, J M.]

“Do you think you could swim or fly as far as the island, Wendy, without my help?” She had to admit that she was too tired. He moaned. “What is ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )