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Hard times for these times by Charles Dickens
epub, mobi |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER VI - FADING AWAY IT was falling dark when Stephen came out of Mr. Bounderby's house. The shadows of night had gathered so fast, that he did not look ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-06-14 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

CHAPTER XIX Great as was Madame Odintsov's self-control, and superior as she was to every kind of prejudice, she felt awkward when she went into the dining-room to dinner. The ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
A House Divided by Pearl S. Buck
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Pearl S. Buck [Buck, Pearl S.]

III EVEN AS YUAN HAD LOVED and hated his father in his childhood, so now he left that foreign country loving and hating it. He could not but love it, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
epub, mobi | | 2000-07-19 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

V So one month passed and then another. Just before the New Year his brother-in-law came to town and stayed at their house. Ivan Ilych was at the law courts ...
( Category: Death & Grief March 26,2014 )
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Ernest J. Gaines [Gaines, Ernest J.]

BOOK III THE PLANTATION Samson I knowed Aunt Hattie Jordan a long time before I came to Samson. She was the cook here then. Had been cooking for the Samsons ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-12-03 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

15 He heard the Bugatti start and the noise came as a surprise and an intrusion because there was no motor noise in the country where he was living. He ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
The bell by Iris Murdoch
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-07-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

* * * When Michael reached his bedroom he immediately lay down on the floor, and for a while it was as if, in a sheer desire to be hidden, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Sherwood Anderson [Anderson, Sherwood]

Wash Williams and George Willard arose from the pile of railroad ties and walked along the tracks toward town. The operator finished his tale quickly, breathlessly. “Her mother sent for ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys & Francis Wyndham
epub |eng | 1966-01-15 | Author:Jean Rhys & Francis Wyndham [Rhys, Jean & Wyndham, Francis]

I went out following the path I could see from my window. It must have rained heavily during the night for the red clay was very muddy. I passed a ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Studs Lonigan a Trilogy by James T. Farrell
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-02-09 | Author:James T. Farrell [Farrell, James T.]

“And you fellows, if you find some cake-eaters trying to take advantage of your sister, what are you going to do? Are you going to shrug your shoulders, and say ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
Atlas Shrugged - 35th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Rand
epub |eng | 1957-08-15 | Author:Ayn Rand [Rand, Ayn]

After the boy had transmitted the words onto the wires that stretched from pole to pole across a continent as guardians of the Taggart track—after Kip Chalmers had returned to ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Victor Hugo
epub |eng | | Author:Victor Hugo

CHAPTER II Showing that a Priest and a Philosopher Are Two Very Different Persons The priest whom the girls had noticed on the top of the north tower, leaning over ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
The Promise: A Novel of China and Burma (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) by Buck Pearl S
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

XII THE GENERAL WAS UNEASY and the more because for many days he had not been able to ask the Chairman for advice. The small radio set he had brought ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Steinbeck, John by Cannery Row
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Cannery Row [Row, Cannery]

CHAPTER XVII In spite of his friendliness and his friends Doc was a lonely and a set-apart man. Mack probably noticed it more than anybody. In a group, Doc seemed ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Olaf Stapledon [Stapledon, Olaf]

CHAPTER 9 - COMMUNITY OF WORLDS 1. BUSY UTOPIAS There came a time when our new-found communal mind attained such a degree of lucidity that it was able to maintain ...
( Category: Humanism March 26,2014 )

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