Contemporary
epub |eng | 1955-01-23 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

3 I I came slowly up the stairs to the flat in the rue Catinat, pausing and resting on the first landing. The old women gossiped as they always had ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-28 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

THERE IS A new patient in the ward, a little old man who collapsed during physical training and was brought in with very low respiration and heartbeat. There is every ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Leonard, Elmore [Leonard, Elmore]

Louis said to Harry, sitting on the cot with him, “You didn’t see nothing, you didn’t hear nothing.” “It was loud,” Harry said. “Jesus.” “I bet it was.” “I had ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the ...
( Category: Memoirs November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

One day early in July Anthony, returned from an afternoon in New York, called up-stairs to Gloria. Receiving no answer he guessed she was asleep and so went into the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1888-01-23 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

VIII WHEN, ON COMING HOME THE EVENING AFTER his father had made the acquaintance of the Dossons, Gaston went into the room in which the old man habitually sat, Mr. ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER XXI MARY WALKED TO THE nearest station and reached home in an incredibly short space of time, just so much, indeed, as was needed for the intelligent understanding of ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Butler, Octavia E. [Butler, Octavia E.]

2 “Get away from me!” Tate said the moment she opened her eyes. “Who are you? What are you doing?” “Trying to get you dressed,” Lilith said. “You can do ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-15 | Author:Auster, Paul [Auster, Paul]

After that night, Nora went on telling him everything. It made sense that she should want to share her troubles with someone, but of all the people in the world, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-15 | Author:Strieber, Whitley [Strieber, Whitley]

TWELVE Sourball Express Paul watched Justin Turk fool with his pipe. You weren’t supposed to light up inside the building. Langley was a nonsmoking facility. Justin lit up. “You know,” ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:Warner, Sylvia Townsend [Warner, Sylvia Townsend]

PART 3 IT WAS THE third week in August. The weather was sultry; day after day Laura heard the village people telling each other that there was thunder in the ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1885-01-01 | Author:Haggard, Henry Rider [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 11 We Give a Sign FOR A LONG WHILE-two hours, I should think—we sat there in silence, for we were too overwhelmed by the recollection of the horrors we ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1959-01-02 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

2 “Mrs. Dudley,” the doctor said, putting down his fork, “an admirable soufflé.” Mrs. Dudley turned to regard him briefly and went into the kitchen with an empty dish. The ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-02-28 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

One day-I remember this was sometime before Spring Festival-Old Cook came back from the market and said big news was flying through Immortal Heart. Chang the coffinmaker had become famous ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1826-07-30 | Author:Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]

Chapter 17 I have lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Thus long, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )