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Glass Menagerie, The by Williams Tennessee
epub |eng | 1944-01-15 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

SCENE SIX * * * The light comes up on the fire escape landing. Tom is leaning against the grill, smoking. * * * [Screen image: The high school hero.] ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 11,2018 )
Nero Wolfe (41): Doorbell Rang, The by Stout Rex
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

Morris Althaus had been collecting material for a piece on the FBI. G-men had killed Althaus, or at least had been in his apartment about the time he was killed. ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
Babbitt (B&N) by Lewis Sinclair
epub |eng | 1922-07-15 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

IV Babbitt promised to become a recognized orator. He entertained a Smoker of the Men’s Club of the Chatham Road Presbyterian Church with Irish, Jewish, and Chinese dialect stories. But ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Ghost Writer, The by Roth Philip
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

P.S. If you have not yet seen the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank, I strongly advise that you do so. Mrs. Wapter and I were in the ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Sister Carrie (B&N) by Dreiser Theodore
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Dreiser, Theodore [Dreiser, Theodore]

CHAPTER XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH FOR A STAR IT WAS WHEN HE returned from his disturbed stroll about the streets, after receiving the decisive note from McGregor, ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Bulfinch's Mythology (B&N) by Bulfinch Thomas
epub |eng | 1855-01-18 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The by Moore Brian
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Moore, Brian [Moore, Brian]

CHAPTER X ‘Miss Hearne. MISS HEARNE. HELLO THERE? MISS HEARNE?’ She was on the floor. OmyGod, where? Where? My room. She raised herself on an elbow, staring in panic at ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Childhood of Jesus, The by Coetzee J. M
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

CHAPTER 18 HE AND the boy are taking a walk in the parklands, on the first of the excursions sanctioned by Inés. The gloom has lifted from his heart, there ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
Lunar Park by Ellis Bret Easton
epub |spa | 2005-01-01 | Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Ellis, Bret Easton]

14. the kids As I moved slowly up the stairs toward Robby’s room I could hear the muffled sounds of bullets ripping into zombies emanating from what I thought was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
Collected Stories, The by Singer Isaac Bashevis
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Singer, Isaac Bashevis [Singer, Isaac Bashevis]

At the restaurant, I hardly recognized Liebkind Bendel. Even though he wore a yellow jacket, a red shirt, and a tie with golden dots, his face looked as pale as ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
Ship of Fools by Porter Katherine Anne
epub |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Porter, Katherine Anne [Porter, Katherine Anne]

She spoke aloud, astonished to hear her own voice: “I do know well there are many evil people in this world, many more evil than good ones, even the lazy ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Wuthering Heights (B&N) by Bronte Emily
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Emily [Bronte, Emily]

Chapter XVII That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems, The by Milton John
epub |eng | 1667-01-15 | Author:Milton, John [Milton, John]

( Category: Poetry November 11,2018 )
Picture of Dorian Gray, The (B&N) by Wilde Oscar
epub |eng | 1890-01-01 | Author:Wilde, Oscar [Wilde, Oscar]

Chapter X. When his servant entered, he looked at him steadfastly, and wondered if he had thought of peering behind the screen. The man was quite impassive, and waited for ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Sound and the Fury, The by Faulkner William
epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:Faulkner, William [Faulkner, William]

About that time Earl started yelling at Job, so I put them away and went over to try to put some life into him. What this country needs is white ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )

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