Humor
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Moorcock, Michael [Moorcock, Michael]

Chapter Eleven - RETURN OF THE WARRIOR NOW ONE OF the captains saw them and came riding up. His armor was in tatters and his sword broken, but there was ...
( Category: Manga November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-29 | Author:McEwan, Ian [McEwan, Ian]

At the end of a day in which he had come close to smashing a car, seeing a man crushed to death, being set upon by beggars and falling out ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Kressing, Harry [Kressing, Harry]

26 “. . . so he says she’s getting too fat—he blames you—and he’s going to take her away.” Conrad smiled at the news. “The boy shows spirit.—And what will ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1953-01-01 | Author:Thompson, Jim [Thompson, Jim]

12 Humphrey Van Twyne III still lay motionless in his cocoon of winding sheets, raised slightly off the horizontal now by the tilting upward of the table slab. On the ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-03 | Author:Pynchon, Thomas [Pynchon, Thomas]

5 Though her next move should have been to contact Randolph Driblette again, she decided instead to drive up to Berkeley. She wanted to find out where Richard Wharfinger had ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

II She disliked “The Girl from Kankakee” even more than she had expected. It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery. She ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-31 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

Dear Arthur: You can’t have it both ways: that Debbie took “a joking tone” or, as she put it, a “purposely superficial … tone” because that best expressed her attitude ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Banks, Iain [Banks, Iain]

6: The Skull Grounds WHEN Agnes Cauldhame arrived, eight and a half months pregnant, on her BSA 500 with the swept-back handlebars and eye of Sauron painted red on the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1888-01-23 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

VIII WHEN, ON COMING HOME THE EVENING AFTER his father had made the acquaintance of the Dossons, Gaston went into the room in which the old man habitually sat, Mr. ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-03 | Author:Amis, Kingsley [Amis, Kingsley]

4: The Young Man ‘Death’s an integral part of life, after all. We settle for it by the mere act of being born. Let’s face it, Mr Allington, it is ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-10 | Author:McClanahan, Scott [McClanahan, Scott]

We used to do nice things for another though. One night Sarah came home crying because she’d broken an old woman’s leg. She told me all you have to do ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1934-01-16 | Author:Greenwood, Edwin [Greenwood, Edwin]

12. THE “FEET” Major Beamish awoke the next morning with a feeling that all had not gone well the previous evening. He surveyed the yellow tinge in his eyes with ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-30 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

My affair with Consuela lasted for a little more than a year and a half. Only occasionally did we ever again go out for dinner or to the theater. She ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1943-08-15 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

5 We had arranged to meet at the apartment and have a cocktail before starting. I arrived before Larry. I was taking them to a very smart restaurant and expected ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )