Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:André Aciman

* * * Two evenings later, I was just finishing a master class devoted to the last movement of Beethoven’s D Minor sonata when suddenly, at the door, there he ...
( Category: Memoirs November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-01 | Author:Ilango Adigal [Adigal, Ilango]

CANTO SIXTEEN THE SITE OF AGONY Kolaikkalakkadai Madari, the cowherdess, had joyfully taken charge of the frail Kannaki. In the sheltered cottage to which she led her, cowgirls lived who ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Nicci Gerrard

* * * • • • In 2017, I talked to two women who have meant a great deal to me, in their different ways. The first, Mary Jacobus, was ...
( Category: Neurology September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:E. M. Cioran

Conditions of Tragedy If Jesus had ended his career upon the Cross, if he had not been committed to resuscitation—-what a splendid tragic hero! His divine aspect has cost literature ...
( Category: Renaissance March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Karleen Koen [Koen, Karleen]

( Category: Genre Fiction February 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 1990-09-26 | Author:Rabbit at Rest [Rest, Rabbit at]

“A mother,” Harry finishes for him, “who’s letting you rob her blind.” This gets to him a little, burns through the jittery buzz in his eyes. “I’m not robbing anybody,” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-19 | Author:Gilead [Gilead]

I have to decide what to tell your mother. I know she is wondering. He’s very nice to her, and to you. And to me. No “Papa” this evening, thank ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Olive Kitteridge [Kitteridge, Olive]

Tulips People thought the Larkin couple would move after what happened. But they didn’t move—perhaps they had nowhere to go. Their blinds remained drawn, however, day and night. Although sometimes ...
( Category: Contemporary February 18,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1987-03-15 | Author:Peter Taylor [Taylor, Peter]

6 AS I HAVE INDICATED EARLIER IT WAS only a matter of a few weeks after Father left off dining with those old ladies that the picture changed entirely. There ...
( Category: Literary February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Beloved [Beloved]

IN THE BACK of Baby Suggs’ mind may have been the thought that if Halle made it, God do what He would, it would be a cause for celebration. If ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Plaidy, Jean & 7.82 [Plaidy, Jean]

Now the new party was in revolt. It was humiliating enough, they said, to be forced to suspect the legitimacy of the heiress to the throne, but to see the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-02 | Author:Heat & Dust [Heat & Dust]

There was an architect, and a decorator, and a tailor if you please, from Vienna (for the curtains), also a champion swimmer - female - to inaugurate the underground swimming ...
( Category: Contemporary February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1969-05-15 | Author:The Elected Member [Member, The Elected]

Chapter 11 Rabbi Zweck got off the bus at the beginning of the park. It was already dark, and the nature of his adventure and his unfamiliar surroundings, both frightened ...
( Category: Contemporary February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1943-02-18 | Author:Flavin, Martin, 1883-1967

your heart out into eyes that were not there—not resentful or reproachful, but inscrutably remote. And it hadn't to do with what he had thought then—or, if it had, what ...
( Category: Contemporary February 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Khushwant Singh

FIFTEEN Mozelle SAADAT HASAN MANTO For the first time in four years, Trilochan looked at the night sky. He was terribly disturbed and had decided to come out onto the ...
( Category: Contemporary February 15,2019 )