Classics
epub |eng | | Author:Gardner Dozois

NANCY KRESS WRITER’S BLOCK When Gardner Dozois invited me to write a story which began by ripping off a classic opening line, I had no hesitation over which line to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

TABLET IV Column i At twenty leagues they broke off a morsel. 1(?) At thirty leagues they prepared for the night. At fifty leagues they walked all day. The distance ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Muhsin Mahdi

But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence. Then Dinarzad said to her sister, “What a strange and entertaining story!” Shahrazad replied, “What is this compared with what I ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-12-23 | Author:James, Jenni [James, Jenni]

When she woke up, that deliciously warm feeling that stretched from her head to her toes was still there. Lightness. Giddiness. Everything. It was all there. And she couldn’t wait ...
( Category: Clean & Wholesome August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Dennis Parry [Parry, Dennis]

‘What’s the matter, Father?’ said Deirdre with a more genuine-sounding concern than I should have expected. ‘Is it one of your attacks?’ There we are, I thought, if that doesn’t ...
( Category: Classics August 22,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-22 | Author:Robert Vaughan [Vaughan, Robert]

Chapter 8 Hoofbeats pounded the ground as the five horses barreled toward the lawmen’s quiet camp. Grit and dust, kicked up by the fast-moving animals, hung in the air like ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-22 | Author:Stephen Mitchell

BOOK X At the edge of the ocean, the tavern keeper Shiduri was sitting. Her face was veiled, her golden pot-stand and brewing vat stood at her side. As Gilgamesh ...
( Category: Poetry August 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Camus, Albert, Smith, Sandra [Camus, Albert, Smith, Sandra]

2 There are certain things I’ve never liked talking about. I realized after my first few days in prison that I wouldn’t like to talk about that part of my ...
( Category: Philosophy August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J. [Herbert, Brian & Anderson, Kevin J.]

Chapter 60 It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leaders without question. — States: The Bene Gesserit View, All States Are an ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 22,2017 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brian Aldiss

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THEY stood waiting, but nothing interrupted the silence. 'It vanished like a ghost!' Gren said. 'Let's go and see what happened to it.' She clung to him to ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947

Last updated on Thu Oct 6 14:18:33 2011 for eBooks@Adelaide. The Three Impostors, by Arthur Machen Incident of the Private Bar. Mr. Dyson often meditated at odd moments over the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:The Letter

* * * * They dined alone in the splendor of the huge dining room amid flickering candles and attentive servants. How the devil someone as inexperienced as Patricia pulled ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-02 | Author:Daphne du Maurier [Daphne du Maurier]

What on earth did the fellow want? He had not spoken to him for over three years, not since his marriage in fact. He made a point of cutting him ...
( Category: Classics August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Daphne du Maurier [Daphne du Maurier]

When Shelagh awoke the sun was streaming into the room. She glanced at her travelling-clock beside the bed. A quarter-past-nine. She had slept soundly for nearly ten hours. She got ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-09 | Author:Jules Verne [Jules Verne]

CHAPTER XII. BETWEEN THE POLAR CIRCLE AND THE ICE WALL. Since the _Halbrane_ has passed beyond the imaginary curve drawn at twenty-three and a half degrees from the Pole, it ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 22,2017 )