epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:Luigi Pirandello

XII The Eye of Papiano “The tragedy of Orestes in a puppet theatre!” Anselmo Paleari announced to me one day. “They’re automatic puppets, a new invention. It’s this evening at ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:Brennan, Joseph Payne;

WHO WAS HE? SEVERAL MONTHS AGO while I was in the hospital recovering from a coronary attack, I underwent a bizarre and frightening experience which I am at a loss ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:Roy Scranton

The clouds come over and the heat shudders with the scream of cicadas. The crunch of gravel under tires. Hardly even a town, just a few old buildings peeling paint, ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Greenan, Russell H;

10 I AM COERCED Each Fourth of July the town of Brookline holds a small fete at Amory Park for the local children, and there are sack races, ring tosses ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Christine Wunnicke

9 Jean-Martin Charcot, who ruled over the women’s asylum La Salpêtrière, was the most famous neurologist in the world and probably also the most famous Parisian — there really was ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-04 | Author:Nabarun Bhattacharya

Seven Oh listen to the chorus say, that this land Is no land for lamentation. —Hironmoyee Devi April is the cruelest month, when clusters of virulent viruses run riot through ...

epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Ann Quin

‌ Aware of her mouth creasing into flushed cheeks; the squeaking of cupboard doors, drawers, as Judith trotted about, packing clothes, throwing things haphazardly into cases. Of course she hardly ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:CJ Hauser

Lake Itasca TEN YEARS BACK Years before she swam in the silty Gulf where the Mississippi lets itself go, Elsa went to Itasca, the river’s Minnesota headwaters. The Mississippi ran ...

epub |eng | | Author:Adam Ehrlich Sachs

* * * HE TUTORED PRINCESS WILHELMINA in one of her two fitting rooms until the evening star twinkled in the sky. * * * THEN, EN ROUTE to the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mieko Kanai

He cradled her in his arms, supporting her back, and as he gently rocked the “mother,” whose reddish, swollen, fresh, mammalian nipples could be seen amidst her white fur, he ...

epub |eng | | Author:Victor Pelevin

Variant: another setting — a private jet airplane, a stock exchange, a Manhattan penthouse, a Côte d‘Azur estate, etc. Instead of the Bible we see the Saviour Himself approaching the ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-11 | Author:MARIO LEVRERO

Exercises December 16 It’s hard not to be frightened when you realize you can’t rely very much on yourself. I’ve played all my cards and lost, and now there are ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Fernando A. Flores [Fernando A. Flores]

TWELVE The public classics network was airing a black-and-white Cagney picture, Frankie’s Ride. Cagney played Frankie McClint, a poor boy from the Bronx who made it big in the bootlegging ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:joost De Vries & Jane Hedley-Prole

* * * — And yet there I was, me of all people, hurrying along the corridor of my five-star hotel with panic at my heels. To flee: that was ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fernando A. Flores

TWELVE The public classics network was airing a black-and-white Cagney picture, Frankie’s Ride. Cagney played Frankie McClint, a poor boy from the Bronx who made it big in the bootlegging ...