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The Man with the Golden Typewriter by Bloomsbury Publishing
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-04 | Author:Bloomsbury Publishing

10 For Your Eyes Only When Fleming flew to Jamaica in 1959 he had already made a head start on his forthcoming portfolio of short stories. Among the host of ...
( Category: Letters December 5,2015 )
The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Charles Jackson [Jackson, Charles]

PART FOUR The Dream Like a fish of the deep rising to the surface of bright air and sun, he swam up to consciousness out of a dead blank into ...
( Category: Authors December 4,2015 )
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Jeffrey Meyers [Meyers, Jeffrey]

Photograph Insert 1. EDWARD FITZGERALD WITH SCOTT, BUFFALO, CHRISTMAS 1899: A small, inarticulate, ineffectual man with well-cut clothes and fine Southern manners. (Princeton University Library) 2. MOLLIE FITZGERALD, C. 1905: ...
( Category: Authors December 2,2015 )
When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School by Sam Kashner
epub |eng | 2004-02-22 | Author:Sam Kashner [Kashner, Sam]

28. Saint Petersburg One morning in the middle of the fall semester, Peter came over early to wash my face—he said I didn’t do it right. He wore a white ...
( Category: West November 20,2015 )
Streetwise by Mohamed Choukri
mobi |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Mohamed Choukri [Choukri, Mohamed]

16 It was a fresh, breezy morning as I left Habiba’s house. I felt as light as a feather, as if I was walking on air. She was still asleep. ...
( Category: Short Stories November 20,2015 )
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka by Ernst Pawel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ernst Pawel [Pawel, Ernst]

Brod had only two weeks’ vacation and went straight home from Paris. Kafka had an additional week, which he spent at a Naturheilsanatorium —a naturopathic sanatorium—at Erlenbach, near Zurich, a ...
( Category: German November 20,2015 )
JOHN LE CARRÉ by Adam Sisman
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Adam Sisman [Sisman, Adam]

( Category: Authors November 20,2015 )
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos Eire
epub |eng | | Author:Carlos Eire

21 Veintiuno The air was a huge, all-enveloping knife. Even through the thickest layers of wool, the wind coming off Lake Michigan, two blocks away, would plunge the blade deep ...
( Category: Cuba November 18,2015 )
Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius by Barbara Belford
mobi |eng | 1999-12-31 | Author:Barbara Belford [Belford, Barbara]

By the end of 1891, Wilde could look back at a year of successes and surprises. He had found Hyacinth in Lord Alfred Douglas, published his first novel, written a ...
( Category: Authors November 16,2015 )
Conversations with Kafka by Janouch Gustav
epub |eng | 2012-01-25 | Author:Janouch, Gustav

* ‘Jews and Germans have much in common,’ said Kafka, in a conversation about Dr Karel Kramář.54 ‘They are energetic, able, industrious, and thoroughly detested by everyone else. Jews and ...
( Category: German November 16,2015 )
In a Dark Wood by Joseph Luzzi
epub |eng | 2015-04-16 | Author:Joseph Luzzi

CHAPTER 6 Rough Draft Maybe I’ll go to law school.” It was just hours after Katherine’s death on November 29, 2007, and I was standing in Poughkeepsie’s Vassar Brothers Hospital ...
( Category: Medieval November 12,2015 )
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Viviane Forrester
epub |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:Viviane Forrester [Forrester, Viviane]

A final note: shortly after Adrian’s death, Karin committed suicide. Virginia moved to Fitzroy Square, still in Bloomsbury, with her younger brother; Adrian would escort her to dances, concerts, costume ...
( Category: Women Authors November 12,2015 )
The Millionaire and the Bard by Andrea Mays
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea Mays

The monumental events of 1911 did not dampen Henry Folger’s Foliomania. The only disruption to his collecting seems to have involved his annual summertime pilgrimage to England. On July 17, ...
( Category: Authors November 12,2015 )
Contested Will by James Shapiro
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:James Shapiro [James Shapiro]

O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise is sick. How could communities, Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from ...
( Category: Shakespeare November 12,2015 )
Going Up by Frederic Raphael
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Frederic Raphael [Frederic Raphael]

Whatever the Reverend Harper Wood might have thought of my insolent sentiments, thanks to him I was seeing things in a way I never had before. Alone in my hotel ...
( Category: Authors November 12,2015 )

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