History & Criticism
mobi |eng | 2000-03-14 | Author:West of the Sun South of the Border [South of the Border, West of the Sun]

10 The river flowed swiftly past cliffs, in places forming small waterfalls, in others coming to a halt in pools. The surface of these pools faintly reflected the weak sun. ...
( Category: Contemporary March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:CARVER Raymond [Raymond, CARVER]

a matter of time now. But when she came back into the room, he couldn't say anything. He didn't know where to start. But she didn't look at him, anyway. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:José Saramago [Saramago, José]

As one has already seen in other times and other places, life has its vexations. When Ricardo Reis awoke late next morning, he sensed a presence in the room. Perhaps ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 30,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2009-07-08 | Author:Tortilla Flat

X How the Friends solaced a Corporal and in return received a lesson in paternal ethics. JESUS Maria Corcoran was a pathyway for the humanities. Suffering he tried to relieve; ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1993-08-01 | Author:Of mice;men

CROOKS, THE NEGRO stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. On one side of the little room ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
mobi |eng | 1906-01-01 | Author:Francois Rabelais; M. A. Screech

How Rondibilis, the physician, advises Panurge CHAPTER 31 [Behind Rondibilis probably lies Dr Rondelet, a distinguished physician at Montpellier. Rondibilis advocates the teachings about semen of the Platonico-Hippocratic school which, ...
( Category: Literary March 30,2018 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-07-20 | Author:Chelsea Cain

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 30,2018 )
epub | | | Author:Alexandre Dumas, pËre

Chapter 54 A Flurry in Stocks. Some days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs Elysees, which had already ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-07-17 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

In Another Country IN THE fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

AT THE COURT HOUSE! FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY! The World-Renowned Tragedians DAVID GARRICK THE YOUNGER! AND EDMUND KEAN THE ELDER! Of the London and Continental Theatres, In their Thrilling Tragedy ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-01 | Author:Henry Fielding [Fielding, Henry]

Chapter vii. Containing a fuller account of Mrs Waters, and by what means she came into that distressful situation from which she was rescued by Jones. Though Nature hath by ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-02 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist & David Luke & Nigel Reeves [Kleist, Heinrich von & Luke, David & Reeves, Nigel]

The Beggarwoman of Locarno IN the foothills of the Alps, near Locarno in northern Italy, there used to stand an old castle belonging to an Italian marquis, which can now, ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Émile Zola [Zola, Émile]

Chapter 6 FOR the last two days Jean had been working in the fields Hourdequin owned close to Rognes, where the farmer had set up a steam threshing machine, hired ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-28 | Author:Elsie Spicer Eells [Eells, Elsie Spicer]

* * * XIII How the Monkey Escaped Being Eaten nce upon a time, ages and ages ago, people ate fruits and nuts. Then there came a time when the ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Émile Zola [Zola, Émile]

5 The kiss he had planted on his wife’s neck preoccupied Saccard. He had long since ceased to avail himself of his marital prerogatives. The rupture had come about naturally, ...
( Category: Classics March 30,2018 )