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Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
epub |eng | 2018-11-14 | Author:Willa Cather

( Category: Classics November 15,2018 )
Late-Life Love by Susan Gubar
epub |eng | 2018-10-23 | Author:Susan Gubar

Wrinkled in Time MY STEPDAUGHTER SUSANNAH had been to the post office, the donut shop, the grocery store, and the farmer’s market. She had cleaned the vegetables and put away ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 14,2018 )
Homer's Secret Odyssey by Wood Kenneth
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-10 | Author:Wood, Kenneth [Wood, Kenneth]

Wooden Horse: Dark of Moon The last days of the ninth year of the siege are complex and involve much activity: Odysseus’ secret reconnaissance beneath the walls; the wooden horse ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 12,2018 )
The Habits of Distraction by Wood Michael
epub |eng | 2018-05-24 | Author:Wood, Michael

IV We can be distracted examiners of classical music too, but we have to choose to be, to cultivate the paradox of a willed relaxation of attention. I want to ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 12,2018 )
Verses by Asimov Isaac
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

And all the fans will say As you walk your narrow way, If all his yarns restrict themselves to masculinity, Why, what a most particularly pure young man that pure ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
Waste Land and Other Poems, The (B&N) by Eliot T. S
epub |eng | 1898-01-01 | Author:Eliot, T. S. [Eliot, T. S.]

Daffodil bulbs instead of balls Stared from the sockets of the eyes! He knew that thought clings round dead limbs Tightening its lusts and luxuries. Donne,2 I suppose, was such ...
( Category: Poetry November 12,2018 )
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (B&N) by Truth Sojourner
epub |eng | 1850-01-01 | Author:Truth, Sojourner [Truth, Sojourner]

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: Ethnic & National November 12,2018 )
Twilight and Moonbeam Alley by Zweig Stefan
epub |eng | 2012-04-15 | Author:Zweig, Stefan [Zweig, Stefan]

But death was not to be deceived, and broke her laughter. When madame de Prie was found her face was distorted into a terrible grimace. Those dreadful features showed everything ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
Bostonians (B&N) by James Henry
epub |eng | 1886-02-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Blunderer, The by Highsmith Patricia
epub |eng | 1954-01-08 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

24 There was very little work for Walter in the office that week, because Dick Jensen had already taken over Walter’s tasks in anticipation of his six weeks’ leave. Walter ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
Odyssey, The (B&N) by Homer
epub |eng | 0101-02-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Moby-Dick (B&N) by Melville Herman
epub |eng | 1851-01-18 | Author:Melville, Herman [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER LXIV. Stubb’s Supper. Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
My Antonia (B&N) by Cather Willa
epub |eng | 1918-02-01 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

V AFTER LENA CAME TO Black Hawk, I often met her downtown, where she would be matching sewing silk or buying “findings”l for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened to walk ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Moll Flanders (B&N) by Defoe Daniel
epub |eng | 1721-01-01 | Author:Defoe, Daniel [Defoe, Daniel]

VOLUME II The FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF THE FAMOUS MOLL FLANDERS I had a great many adventures after this, but I was young in the business, and did not know ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Far From the Madding Crowd (B&N) by Hardy Thomas
epub |eng | 1874-01-01 | Author:Hardy, Thomas [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER XXXI Blame—Fury THE NEXT EVENING BATHSHEBA, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr. Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )

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