Biographies
azw3 |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Eudora Welty [Welty, Eudora]

Cassie listened, but Für Elise was not repeated. She took up her ukulele from the foot of the bed. She screwed it into tune and played it, slurring the chords ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Jean Stafford [Stafford, Jean]

The Darkening Moon There was not a star in the sky, scarcely a sound in the air except for the soft gabbling of the creek. The little girl, when she ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Douglas Adams

36  “ THANK YOU, NO,” said Richard firmly, “much as I would love the opportunity to buy you a pizza and watch you eat it, Dirk, I want to go straight ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Giorgio de Santillana [Santillana, Giorgio de]

Chapter XX. The Depths of the Sea Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Job xxxviii.16 IT WILL ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-10-29 | Author:Leo Perutz [Perutz, Leo]

TWELVE I do not find it at all easy to explain why I did not carry out my intention to leave by the next train. It was certainly not the ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-08-31 | Author:Jung Chang & Jon Halliday [Chang, Jung]

38 UNDERMINING KHRUSHCHEV (1956–59 AGE 62–65) WITHIN MONTHS of denouncing Stalin, Khrushchev had run into trouble. In June 1956, protests erupted in Poland at a factory suitably named “the Stalin ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:J.M. Coetzee

THERE IS A new patient in the ward, a little old man who collapsed during physical training and was brought in with very low respiration and heartbeat. There is every ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Ron Hansen [Hansen, Ron]

5 MARCH–APRIL 1882 The pitcher goes often to the fountain, but it is broken at last. The longest lane comes to an abrupt and unexpected turning. The wild career of ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-14 | Author:Cullen, Michael

The year business went to the barricades The new year began with an unwelcome present from Reserve Bank governor Don Brash — a twenty-five point rise in the overnight cash ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski & Seamus Cooney [Bukowski, Charles]

The book being referred to in the following is Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, published June 1972. [To John Martin] February 6, 1972 [***] I’ve done ten of the drawings for ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:E.L. Doctorow

TWO YEARS LATER, Jolene was living alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had heard from a truck driver at a whistle stop in north Texas, where she was waiting tables, that ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Sándor Márai [Márai, Sándor]

14 It was still dark,” he says, when the other man makes no reply, puts up no defense, gives no sign with a movement of the eye or hand that ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-10-09 | Author:Susan Hill

I returned to the Gifford Arms and, instead of telephoning, wrote a letter to Mr. Bentley. In it I described the house and its hoard of papers and explained that ...
( Category: Community & Culture Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Flann O'Brien

After Hours (1967) by Brian O’Nolan At ten o’clock on week nights, at half-nine on Saturday the tide ebbs suddenly, leaving the city high and dry. Unless you are staying ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1855-01-01 | Author:Gérard de Nerval [Nerval, Gérard de]

DIORAMA This week’s major dramatic event, and a novel and powerful one at that, was the reopening of the Diorama1 with its rendering of the Flood – a spectacular mystery ...
( Category: Memoirs October 18,2021 )