Arts & Literature
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-08-29 | Author:Truman Capote

I went straight upstairs, got the bird cage, took it down and left it in front of her door. That settled that. Or so I imagined until the next morning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Albert Camus

The lycée where the examination was given was all the way across town, at the other end of the arc the city makes around the bay, in a district that ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-03-15 | Author:John Kennedy Toole

Nine "We got a complaint on you from the Board of Health, Reilly." "Oh, is that all? From the expression on your face, I thought that you were having some ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Haig, Matt [Haig, Matt]

Light-bulb ‘Have a nice time?’ Isobel asked on my return. She was standing on top of one form of primitive technology (step-ladder) changing another one (incandescent light-bulb). ‘Yes,’ I said. ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:A. S. Byatt

The People in the House in the House There was once a little girl who was very kind to little creatures. She used to make nests and put them out ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-02 | Author:Vikram Seth

'Now to what do I owe this pleasure?' The Chief Minister looked from the six-year-old boy to the Nawab Sahib's thirty-year-old secretary while nodding his head slightly from side to ...
( Category: Indian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-04-21 | Author:Robert Harris

Pliny had grown too fat for a litter. He travelled instead by carriage, a two-seater, with Gaius wedged in next to him. Beside his red and corpulent uncle he looked ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:David Mitchell

' "With Beauty shall you Sleep, on Pleasure shall you Dine, By the Crane and the Turtle and the Goyo Pine . . ." ' A log cracks open in ...
( Category: Cyberpunk March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:King, Laurie R [King, Laurie R]

I had to admit, grudgingly and to myself, that a part of me liked this man Edwards. The part of me that was closest to Mary Small responded to him ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Archer, Jeffrey [Archer, Jeffrey]

10 THE UNDIPLOMATIC DIPLOMAT* PERCIVAL ARTHUR Clarence Forsdyke – his mother called him Percival, while the few friends he had called him Percy – was born into a family which ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Jane Green

29 Maggie The doorbell rings. I ignore it, muting the television set just in case Kelly Ripa’s voice drifts out the window to the driveway, letting the intruders know I’m ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1971-01-02 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham

6 AFTER THAT WE SAW a good deal of Larry. For the next week he came to the apartment every day and for half an hour shut himself up with ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Michael Chabon

THERE WAS ONE BATHROOM in the house, upstairs, at the end of the hall, in a wide, lopsided dormer all its own. It was a nice bathroom with grooved wainscoting, ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-18 | Author:David Foster Wallace

/i/ Cat, Heat, and the Breather all lay around the room they shared with the Antichrist, in various states of distress, in the sun, which now came through the big ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Lauren Graham

Outside, it feels like it’s going to thunderstorm and the wind has picked up. I have to lean forward to make any progress as I make my way up 66th ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )