epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

At about ten o’clock the news came. Thinking about such things afterwards, you never can remember quite what transpired. Someone comes in; a whisper starts; suddenly everyone knows what has ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Joan Rivers

JULY 11 Dear Diary: We’re starting to plan Grandma Week with Cooper. Every year he and I go somewhere special, just the two of us . . . plus my ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-07 | Author:Richard Burton & Chris Williams [Burton, Richard & Williams, Chris]

Evening Sitting on the poop deck with my infinitely beloved wife who has acquired an even greater weight of love. I keep on mentally looking around to make sure she's ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

Such is our definition of Americanism and the American way of life. The American way of life has always been based upon the Rights of Man, upon individual freedom and ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:George Grossmith

We have a dose of Irving imitations. Make the acquaintance of Mr Padge. Don’t care for him. Mr Burwin-Fosselton becomes a nuisance. Chapter XI NOVEMBER 20. Have seen nothing of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Haig, Matt [Haig, Matt]

Light-bulb ‘Have a nice time?’ Isobel asked on my return. She was standing on top of one form of primitive technology (step-ladder) changing another one (incandescent light-bulb). ‘Yes,’ I said. ...

mobi |eng | 2004-11-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION Last May 22, Larry Wayne White was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. As a celebrated double murderer, he attracted few mourners and only a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Dorothy Day

1962 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10 [PITTSBURGH] Slept at Strassers until 9, Erica drove me to Duquesne chapel where there was a Mass beautifully participated in by the students. Later I went ...

mobi |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Spalding Gray; Nell Casey

JUNE 16, 1987 I’M WRITING “IMPOSSIBLE VACATION” A CHRONICLE OF PERSONAL GUILT I want to be the best at what I do. I would like to do one thing well. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-03 | Author:Palin, Michael [Palin, Michael]

Thursday, June 24th I enjoy a rare day with no need to go out – not even a game of squash. And I find myself with time on my hands. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

X Friday, Santiago (Witold Gombrowicz, having arrived in Santiago, succumbed to a wave of belated eroticism, the same as before, years ago.… But this time the wave was strengthened by ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Ayn Rand & David Harriman & Leonard Peikoff [Rand, Ayn & Harriman, David & Peikoff, Leonard]

1947 [AR wrote the following article for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. It was published in the November 1947 issue of Plain Talk, a conservative ...

epub, mobi, pdf | | 2007-09-05 | Author:Jeremy Clarkson [Clarkson, Jeremy]

Sunday 14 July 2002 I Bring You News from the Edge of the Universe For me, there is no greater pleasure than lying on my back in the middle of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Hunter's Prayer [Prayer, Hunter's]

* * * 16 I hit the door still running as the cab pulled away. Tossed my torn and battered coat over the habitual chair at the end of the ...