Genre Literature & Fiction
azw3 |eng | 1995-06-28 | Author:Charles Palliser [Palliser, Charles]

CHAPTER 60 Later that day in the afternoon Barney, Sam and Jack suddenly came into the Red Room where most of us were, and clapped their hands for attention. “It’s ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Anna Kavan [Kavan, Anna]

5 OUTSIDE, the storm hadn’t broken. They emerged into a world still ominously roofed over by leaden clouds. In this sombre light, glancing at her companion, Rejane was struck by ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Antoine Volodine [Volodine, Antoine]

absence of swaying and quietly stumbling so as to recreate it. The conversation continued like such, advancing the cause of progressive literature. Irina Kobayashi passed away that same year, from ...
( Category: Anthropology October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Jan Kjærstad [Kjærstad, Jan]

From the Annals of the Potato Monarchy ‘What was the name of the marshal in command of Napoleon’s I Corps at the battle of Austerlitz?’ The idea, usually, was to ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Ladislav Klíma

(*The publisher of these memoirs, unable to compose in rhyme, presents this poem in the original.) “Dear Helmut, have you ever seen such an improvisateur?” he then added, flushed from ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:E.L. Doctorow

TWO YEARS LATER, Jolene was living alone in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had heard from a truck driver at a whistle stop in north Texas, where she was waiting tables, that ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1982-01-01 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

All night Christine sits motionless in the chair by the table, her thoughts revolving dully around the feeling that everything is over; not an actual pain so much as a ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Sándor Márai [Márai, Sándor]

14 It was still dark,” he says, when the other man makes no reply, puts up no defense, gives no sign with a movement of the eye or hand that ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:J.M. Barrie [Barrie, J.M.]

CHAPTER XII THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it improperly, for to surprise redskins ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:M. John Harrison [Harrison, M. John]

SEVENTEEN Correlation States When the Kefahuchi Tract expanded, in what came to be known as ‘the Event’, parts of it fell to earth on planets all along the Beach. Event ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Tayeb Salih & Denys Johnson-Davies (translator)

Zein gave a wide, knowing smile, revealing his new teeth. ‘Because my nurse took a fancy to me’. ‘There is no god but God,’ exclaimed Abdul Hafeez. ‘You good-for-nothing, were ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1950-01-01 | Author:Pär Lagerkvist

When Barabbas came back to his own people he was so changed that they scarcely recognized him. Their companions who had been down in Jerusalem had said that he seemed ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Halldór Laxness

24 DER ERLKÖNIG That summer, things began to look up a little for me. For many years I had not dared to open my mouth to sing within earshot of ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Tor Ulven [Ulven, Tor]

AFTERWORD Few authors in postwar Norway have had a stronger and more direct influence on their contemporaries and successors. It’s an influence that has helped major talents find their voices ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1950-01-01 | Author:Barbara Comyns [Comyns, Barbara]

20 Charles kept asking people’s advice on how to get rid of babies, and everyone seemed to know someone who knew someone who knew someone who did something which sounded ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )