History & Criticism
epub |eng | 1982-01-21 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

DEAR CELIE, At first there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest. A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging. Then a ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1971-01-15 | Author:Thompson, Hunter S. [Thompson, Hunter S.]

3. Savage Lucy . . . ‘Teeth Like Baseballs, Eyes Like Jellied Fire’ I gave my bag to the boy who scurried up, and told him to bring a quart ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1905-02-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

Alone with her cousin’s kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts. He had kissed her before—but not with another woman on his lips. If he had spared her that she could ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1877-12-17 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

Chapter XV. Valentin de Bellegarde’s announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile, and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1818-01-18 | Author:Austen, Jane [Austen, Jane]

CHAPTER XVII The Allens had now entered on the sixth week of their stay in Bath; and whether it should be the last, was for some time a question, to ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1903-01-10 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Anne [Bronte, Anne]

CHAPTER XII The Shower The next visit I payed to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March, for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1849-01-15 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]

The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Banks, Iain [Banks, Iain]

‘You mean you haven’t read them all?’ ‘I went off the idea,’ I said. I was sitting in what had effectively become my boudoir; our living room. Aunt Janice seemed ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1998-07-15 | Author:Anonymous (Byock, Jesse - Trans.) [Anonymous (Byock, Jesse - Trans.)]

19. Bjorn Rejects Queen Hvit’s Advances: The Curse Bjorn went back to his quarters after arguing with his father, each thinking the other to be wrong. Bjorn, downcast and angry, ...
( Category: Manga November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1857-01-01 | Author:Gaskell, Elizabeth [Gaskell, Elizabeth]

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1937-12-29 | Author:Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen) [Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)]

Chapter 5. A Fugitive Rests on the Farm There was one traveller who came to the farm, slept there for one night, and walked off not to come back, of ...
( Category: Specific Groups 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 | 1860-01-01 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

CHAPTER XXX AFTER WELL CONSIDERING THE matter while I was dressing at the Blue Boar in the morning, I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick’s being the ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1855-01-15 | Author:Whitman, Walt [Whitman, Walt]

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: Poetry November 11,2018 )