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Kindred by Butler Octavia E
epub |eng | 1979-01-01 | Author:Butler, Octavia E. [Butler, Octavia E.]

8 I did my best for Alice, hurt her as little as possible, got her clean and bandaged the worst of her injuries—the dog bites. “Looks like they just let ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
Alteration, The by Amis Kingsley
epub |eng | 1976-01-14 | Author:Amis, Kingsley [Amis, Kingsley]

Chapter Five In the dormitory at St Cecilia’s, Hubert finished folding a coloured shirt and tucked it carefully away in his valigia, watched by Thomas and Mark. Thomas said in ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
Princess Casamassima, The by James Henry
epub |eng | 1886-01-31 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

23 He was in the library, after luncheon, when word was brought to him that the carriage was at the door, for their drive; and when he went into the ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Two-Character Play, The by Williams Tennessee
epub |eng | 1973-01-15 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

Clare! [She strikes a treble note repeatedly on the piano. He snatches her hand from the keyboard and slams the lid down.] CLARE: You shouldn’t have spoken that word! “Confined”! ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 11,2018 )
Cliff Janeway (05): Bookwoman's Last Fling, The by Dunning John
epub |eng | 2006-11-15 | Author:Dunning, John [Dunning, John]

14 Erin sat coldly through my account that night. The police had arrived at two o’clock with the coroner’s men on their heels; Baxter and I had been questioned in ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )
Glamorama by Ellis Bret Easton
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Ellis, Bret Easton [Ellis, Bret Easton]

13 Feeling really injured, trying to formulate a new game plan in order to halt vacuous wandering, I proceed to various newsstands in desperate need of a New York Post ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Anathemas and Admirations by Cioran E. M
epub |eng | 1986-01-12 | Author:Cioran, E. M. [Cioran, E. M.]

There is a certain shamelessness in dying. Indeed, there is something indecent about death. This aspect, understandably, is the last that comes to mind. I have wasted hour after hour ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 11,2018 )
Women in Love (B&N) by Lawrence D. H
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, D. H.]

CHAPTER XIX Moony1 AFTER HIS ILLNESS BIRKIN went to the south of France for a time. He did not write, nobody heard anything of him. Ursula, left alone, felt as ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Joy Luck Club, The by Tan Amy
epub |eng | 1989-01-29 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

Waverly Jong FOUR DIRECTIONS I had taken my mother out to lunch at my favorite Chinese restaurant in hopes of putting her in a good mood, but it was a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
Handmaid's Tale, The by Atwood Margaret
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Atwood, Margaret [Atwood, Margaret]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn’t ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Rebecca by Maurier Daphne Du
epub |eng | 1938-01-01 | Author:Maurier, Daphne Du [Maurier, Daphne Du]

17 Clarice was waiting for me in my bedroom. She looked pale and scared. As soon as she saw me she burst into tears. I did not say anything. I ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Dud Avocado, The by Dundy Elaine
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Dundy, Elaine [Dundy, Elaine]

EIGHT I DIDN’T SEE LARRY for a while. After a show opens it doesn’t belong to the director any more, it’s the stage manager’s baby, and Larry never came around. ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
This Side of Paradise (B&N) by Fitzgerald F. Scott
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

Amory Writes a Poem The weeks tore by. Amory wandered occasionally to New York on the chance of finding a new shining green auto-bus, that its stick-of-candy glamour might penetrate ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Satanic Verses, The by Rushdie Salman
epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Rushdie, Salman [Rushdie, Salman]

It was so, it was not, that as Saladin Chamcha’s incarceration in the body of a devil and the attic of the Shaandaar B and B lengthened into weeks and ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Old Man and the Sea, The by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1952-01-25 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )

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