Humor
epub |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

* * * VIII. We have left our eighteenth-century novelists--Fielding, Richardson, and Smollett--safely behind us, with all their solidity and their audacity, their sincerity, and their coarseness of fibre. They ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Bybee, Catherine [Bybee, Catherine]

Chapter Fifteen “This is becoming a habit, detectives,” Carter leaned against the doorframe of Dean and Jim’s office and crossed his arms over his chest. “And I’m not taking another ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Helen Fielding [Fielding, Helen]

Sunday 25 June 8st 11, alcohol units 7, cigarettes 2, calories 4587 (ooops). Oh dear. Daniel decided the place was nouveau from the moment we arrived, because there were three ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-05-08 | Author:Margaret Atwood

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Dystopian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-25 | Author:Helen Fielding

Sunday 25 June 8st 11, alcohol units 7, cigarettes 2, calories 4587 (ooops). Oh dear. Daniel decided the place was nouveau from the moment we arrived, because there were three ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:T. C. Boyle

“Sess!” Skid Denton was shouting over the uproar, waving a full shot glass as if he were proposing a toast. “Where’d you find these freaks, anyway—the Ringling Brothers’ circus?” “And ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Tom Wolfe

The Bavardages’ dining room walls had been painted with so many coats of burnt-apricot lacquer, fourteen in all, they had the glassy brilliance of a pond reflecting a campfire at ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1990-01-02 | Author:Tim O'Brien

The Man I Killed His jaw was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his ...
( Category: Military March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Dave Eggers

sneer. We quote a professor summing up: “A study of Teach for America tells us more about the ideological, even psychological needs of today’s middle-class white and minority youth than ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John le Carré

17 There was Crystalside and there was Townside, and though the two were separated by a mere half-mile as the frigate bird flew, they could have been different islands, because ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-02-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

54 This morning, I overslept. Which is to say—sloth that I am, I dozed until the ungodly hour of 4:15 AM. I woke up only minutes before the Gurugita was ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Denis Johnson [Johnson, Denis]

We walked carefully down there and climbed through the busted fence and stood in the very back. The speakers, which I'd mistaken for grave markers, muttered in unison. Then there ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Alan Hollinghurst [Hollinghurst, Alan]

He closed the door, locked the door, and reached out for Wani, who patted him and kissed him on the nose as he turned away. "Where's the stuff?" said Wani. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Michael Chabon [Chabon, Michael]

PART V RADIOMAN 1 The loser at Lupe Velez was obliged to make his bed in the tunnels, out in the pandemonium of Dog-town. There were eighteen dogs, Alaskan malamutes ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

DAY THREE · MORNING Taunton, Somerset I lodged last night in an inn named the Coach and Horses a little way outside the town of Taunton, Somerset. This being a ...
( Category: African American Historical Fiction March 25,2014 )