Humor
epub |eng | 1905-02-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

Alone with her cousin’s kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts. He had kissed her before—but not with another woman on his lips. If he had spared her that she could ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1726-01-01 | Author:Swift, Jonathan [Swift, Jonathan]

THE END OF THE SECOND PART. Part III A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN Chapter I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

CHAPTER FOUR It was dreadful; they moved in during a hot morning and everyone was there. Harriet Merriam and Marilyn Perlman walked arm in arm up and down the block, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Anne [Bronte, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

VI I had the door open. It wouldn’t have been courteous to slam it shut again and leave them on the stoop while I considered matters, so I dallied on ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1946-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

Chapter 22 Since they were a strategy council, naturally they didn’t send for Kates immediately. They had to decide on strategy first—whether to circle him and get him tangled, or ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-02 | Author:Maugham, William Somerset [Maugham, William Somerset]

LXIV But about three in the morning Philip awoke and could not sleep again. He began to think of Mildred. He tried not to, but could not help himself. He ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Kiernan, Caitlin R. [Kiernan, Caitlin R.]

5. At the end of the road, the house waited for them, crouched way down in its blanket of snow and bare tree limbs like an alley cat. They’d left ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-10 | Author:the centaur chiron, e. carlson, h. day

( Category: Humor November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1848-01-01 | Author:Thackeray, William Makepeace [Thackeray, William Makepeace]

Suppose some twelve months after the above conversation took place to have passed in the life of our poor Amelia. She has spent the first portion of that time in ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-07-15 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

IV Babbitt promised to become a recognized orator. He entertained a Smoker of the Men’s Club of the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dialect stories. But ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

P.S. If you have not yet seen the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, I strongly advise that you do so. Mrs. Wapter and I were in the ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

The Day of Reckoning John took a taxi from the station, as his uncle had told him to do in case they weren’t there to meet him. It was less ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )
epub |spa | 2005-01-01 | Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Ellis, Bret Easton]

14. the kids As I moved slowly up the stairs toward Robby’s room I could hear the muffled sounds of bullets ripping into zombies emanating from what I thought was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Thompson, Jim [Thompson, Jim]

9 Richard Yeoman The d.a. locked the door on the kid, and handed me a five. Two fifty for me and two fifty for Charlie Alt. He said we should ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )