Contemporary
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Platonov, Andrey [Platonov, Andrey]

Liquidating the kulaks into the distance86 brought Zhachev no calm; he even felt worse, though it was not clear why. For a long time he observed how the raft floated ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Waters, Sarah [Waters, Sarah]

I found myself recalling that sigh a day or two later, as I was making my arrangements for the district hospital dance. The dance was an annual event, meant as ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [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 November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-09 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

‘Have you any idea what “c” stands for?’ Percival asked – and again there was that note of hope which Castle found irritating. ‘It could mean, couldn’t it, “code”, to ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-05-24 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [McCarthy, Cormac]

THEY SET OUT across the broad creosote flats of the valley in the darkness before dawn on Tuesday. Archer had a set of six dogboxes that fitted atop the bed ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1931-01-23 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

20 AND THUS IT MIGHT have gone forever until all the silver was spent had not that one, Wang Lung’s uncle, returned suddenly without explanation of where he had been ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1941-01-01 | Author:Cronin, A. J. [Cronin, A. J.]

IV Eighteen months later, in the month of May, when all Chek-kow province lay basking in that span of short perfection between the winter snows and the swelterings of summer, ...
( Category: Relationships November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-06 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

16 November and December passed very swiftly, or so it seemed to me. Usually, as the days shortened and the weather worsened, when there would be little to do outside ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-30 | Author:Ludlum, Robert [Ludlum, Robert]

24 He paid the driver and got out of the cab, making sure he could be seen by the man on the motorbike, who had stopped down the block. Noel ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-10 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

III The staircase was dark and mean. My knock echoed as if on emptiness. But I knocked a second time, and heard a shuffling, and from behind the door a ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-11 | Author:Wheatley, Dennis [Wheatley, Dennis]

Tuesday, 2nd June I am still here. I could not bring myself to write anything yesterday. I was too utterly depressed and mentally exhausted. My only remaining hope is that ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

Morris Althaus had been collecting material for a piece on the FBI. G-men had killed Althaus, or at least had been in his apartment about the time he was killed. ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-05 | Author:Durrell, Lawrence [Durrell, Lawrence]

Berlin was also in the grip of snow, but here the sullen goaded helplessness of the Russias was replaced by a malignant euphoria hardly less dispiriting. The air was tonic ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-10 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

Waking up again. “Two, three, four,” Bloch started to count. His situation had not changed, but he must have grown used to it in his sleep. He pocketed the coin ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1953-12-13 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

11. ESCAPE ALONG THE STRIPS Baley’s grip tightened convulsively on his fork. “Are you sure?” he asked automatically, and as he said it, he realized the uselessness of the question. ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )