Contemporary Literature & Fiction
epub |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:Simon Montefiore

19 Gideon was numb with fear as the car crossed Red and Revolution squares, then climbed the hill toward Lubianka Square. His vision crumpled as five mountainous storeys of grey ...
( Category: European History October 21,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-09-27 | Author:Walter Goodwater [Goodwater, Walter]

Chapter Seventeen Oh shit oh shit oh shit. The Laughing Boys. Sadie wanted to run but her legs wouldn’t move. No, no. With everything else she’d been doing, she’d forgotten ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Malcolm Bradbury

VIII The seminar room where Howard meets this weekly class, Socsci 4.17, is an interior room without windows, lit by artificial light. The room is a small one; on three ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Antonio Tabucchi [Tabucchi, Antonio]

When I got to the room, the guard gave me a nod of recognition, I thanked him and said I wouldn’t be more than an hour, he said not to ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-06-17 | Author:Marquis de Sade [Sade, Marquis de]

†Monsieur Servant* [Author’s note]. Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man PRIEST. Now that the fatal hour is upon you wherein the veil of illusion is torn aside ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1946-10-15 | Author:Halldór Laxness

BUILDING THIS Bailiff Jon of Utirauthsmyri was a person who had long been renowned for his ability to sell sheep wherever he pleased and at whatever price suited him best, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-27 | Author:T.F. Powys [Powys, T.F.]

XXVIII * * * * * * * * * Mr. Mere Makes a Beginning A simple creature is very easy to catch; she never expects anything unpleasant to happen, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Lars Saabye Christensen

Nude There was a naked man standing in Peder’s living room. He was standing completely still, his arms folded, and it looked as if he were thinking intently about something, ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Hubert Selby Jr

10 O GOD, HOW IN the name of krist can this be true? It must be a dream. Please, let it be a dream. Let the alarm ring and I/ll ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Ryu Murakami & Ralph McCarthy (translator)

He had to walk slowly to keep from outpacing the girl, who was limping along beside him, holding his arm. Wind whistled through the canyon of skyscrapers, and on the ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Felisberto Hernández [Hernández, Felisberto]

The Dark Dining Room For some months my job was to play the piano in a dark dining room. An elderly lady was my only audience. She didn’t care who ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Flann O'Brien

After Hours (1967) by Brian O’Nolan At ten o’clock on week nights, at half-nine on Saturday the tide ebbs suddenly, leaving the city high and dry. Unless you are staying ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Stanisław Lem [Lem, Stanisław]

9 BY THE END of August, I was mentally drained, more drained, I think, than I had ever been. The creative potential, the capacity to solve problems, changes in a ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

M. There are so many funny/awful stories that it’s hard to stop telling them. The nineteen-year-old who texted him every time she (a) took a shit or (b) had sex ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )