Classics
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Nabokov, Vladimir [Nabokov, Vladimir]

14 Because it supposedly tied up with her interest in dance and dramatics, I had permitted Lo to take piano lessons with a Miss Emperor (as we French scholars may ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Nabokov, Vladimir [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Twelve He was awakened by a muted tapping, scratching, and the sound of something crumbling somewhere. Just as when, having fallen asleep healthy last night, you wake up past midnight ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

he said plaintively, trying to distinguish the board between the narrow, black backs bent over it. They dwindled completely away and disappeared. On the board the pieces were mixed up ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

PART THREE Neither Slaughter in the Sun (as the English translation of CameraLucida got retitled while I lay helplessly hospitalized in New York) nor TheRed Topper sold well. My ambitious, ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1966-01-02 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Chapter Seven To begin with, let us take the following motto (not especially for this chapter, but generally): Literature is Love. Now we can continue. It was darkish in the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Chapter 16 Witt had a new tennis court. One day Armande challenged Hugh to a set. Ever since childhood and its nocturnal fears, sleep had been our Person's habitual problem. ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-10-31 | Author:Marcel Proust

As to the coming of the Princesse de Luxembourg, whose carriage, on the day she had left the fruit, had drawn up outside the hotel, it had not passed unobserved ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:Marcel Proust

You alone did seem to me that which one always seeks, that the Lady President of the little circle, anxious to make sure of one of her “faithful” even after ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

But I can at least assume that Baudelaire is not sincere. Whereas Dostoievsky … All that sort of thing seems to me as remote from myself as possible, unless there ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-06 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

A slanting ray of the setting sun suddenly reminded me of a time in my early childhood which I had completely forgotten about, when, as my aunt Léonie had a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Marcel Proust

An important publisher from Paris, there on a visit and who had thought he would be asked to stay, went abruptly off, without delay, understanding that he was not fashionable ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

“There is,” began Brichot, hammering out each syllable, “a rather curious definition of intelligence by that gentle old anarchist Fénelon …” “Just listen to this!” Mme Verdurin rallied Forcheville and ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-19 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

PART TWO Chapter One We made our way back along the Avenue Gabriel through the strolling crowds. I left my grandmother to rest on a bench and went in search ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-12 | Author:Katherine Garbera

Nine Allan woke up with the sun streaming in the windows of an empty bedroom. He knew where he was and remembered clearly holding Jessi in his arms through the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Eliot

CHAPTER III Perhaps it was a result quite different from your expectations, that Mr. David Faux should have returned from the West Indies only a few years after his arrival ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )