Contemporary
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Richard Adams

“ ‘Accidental death,’ ” said Robert Lindsay. “Ay, well, that’s all he could have found—couldn’t have found owt else, Dennis, could he?” “Could have found suicide if he’d had a ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Richard Adams

Thursday the llth November “—And then there’s this,” said the Under Secretary, picking up a press cutting, “which you may already have seen. It may prove entirely negligible, but I ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:William Gaddis

AFTERWORD Joseph Tabbi Agapē Agape is William Gaddis’s swan song, his most concentrated fiction, and the one work where he risks a direct address to the reader. The distillation of ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-05-15 | Author:Doris Lessing

15th September, 1954 Last night Michael said (I had not seen him for a week): “Well, Anna, and so our great love affair is coming to an end?” Characteristic of ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

26 I went to the door and looked out. It had stopped raining but there was a mist. "Should we go upstairs?" I asked the priest. "I can only stay ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-26 | Author:Ch'eng-en, Wu [Ch'eng-en, Wu]

CHAPTER XVIII SO the three of them travelled on towards the west, and came at last to a great plain. Summer had passed and autumn come. They heard ‘the cicada ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Glenway Wescott; David Leavitt

11. THOUGH ALEX HAD NOT DARED TO TURN AND ACKNOWLEDGE his father’s last instruction, he had heard it. To be quick about it, to run all the way to the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-11-06 | Author:John Steinbeck

CHAPTER VI There was a little street not far from the town square where small peaked roofs and little shops were mixed up together. The snow was beaten down on ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1955-07-15 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

Holy Saturday in Matchet; Mr Crouchback broke his Lenten fast. He had given up, as he always did, wine and tobacco. During the preceding weeks two parcels had come from ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Kobo Abe

20 HIS face was as stiff as starch, his breathing like a storm. His saliva tasted of dry scorched sugar … and such a terrible loss of energy. At least ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:John Cheever

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Northeaster (Leander wrote). Wind backed from SW. 3rd equinoctial disturbance of season. All in love is not larky and fractious.—In the attic the broken harp-string music of water ...
( Category: Family Saga March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1901-01-01 | Author:Rudyard Kipling; Jeffrey Meyers

Kim will remember till he dies that long, lazy journey from Umballa, through Kalka215 and the Pinjore Gardens216 near by, up to Simla. A sudden spate in the Gugger River ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel

Chapter V About the intelligent and amusing conversation between Sancho Panza and his wife Teresa Panza, together with other events worthy of happy memory As the translator of the history ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-07-09 | Author:Graham Greene

(4) “Are you hurt?” Pyle said. “Something hit my leg. Nothing serious.” “Let’s get on,” Pyle urged me. I could just see him because he seemed to be covered with ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-09-08 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

That was precisely Marilee’s situation, too, of course. There was nothing waiting for her outside the door of Gregory’s very comfortable dwelling except hunger and humiliation, no matter how meanly ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )