History & Criticism
mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Scarlet Letter

X The Leech and His Patient Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ...
( Category: Classics October 18,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Oscar Wilde

CHAPTER 17 A week later Dorian Gray was sitting in the conservatory at Selby Royal, talking to the pretty Duchess of Monmouth, who with her husband, a jaded-looking man of ...
( Category: British & Irish October 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:William H. Gass [Gass, William H.]

but I have been dropping hints all along like heavy shoes that the ultimate and essential displacement is to the word, and that the true sexuality in literature—sex as a ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:William H Gass [Gass, William H.]

Did this action bring the fire department, consume the house, damage his relationship with the husband? We are never told. We aren’t told Hamsun had bronchitis instead of TB either. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-19 | Author:Jonathan L. Howard [Howard, Jonathan L.]

Chapter 17 THE PISTOL IN THE HOUSE Carter had heard there were worse ways to die than drowning, and that was self-evidently true. You could be eaten by army ants, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Jorge Carrión

( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-22 | Author:The Book of Frank Herbert (v1.0)

Somewhere, he could hear running water. It was dark where he was, or perhaps lighted by a faint redness. His eyelids were stuck tightly. He could feel folds of cloth ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Shashi Tharoor [Tharoor, Shashi]

18 Books and Botox AMERICANS, THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM HAS IT, don't read. At least not as much as they used to. Television, movies, computer games, the Internet — all have ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 1970-11-15 | Author:I know why the caged bird sings [Sings, I Know Why The Caged Bird]

CHAPTER 22 The wind blew over the roof and ruffled the shingles. It whistled sharp under the closed door. The chimney made fearful sounds of protest as it was invaded ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-26 | Author:Tim

Nineteen Tim sat silently in the car all the way to Artarmon. He had not slept in her Sydney house very often, and the room he always occupied there did ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2017 )
azw, mobi |eng | 2006-11-07 | Author:Foster, Thomas C.,

18 If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism QUICK QUESTION: I’m walking down the road and suddenly I fall into a pond. What happens? You drown? Thanks for the vote of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Brian Boyd

Nabokov’s note comments perceptively on the sound-link between “lyubímoy” and “drugím” in the last line, which makes the inevitability and the surprise both greater. “Drugím,” coming last, rhyming quietly and ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 17,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-21 | Author:Claude Izner

The cannon fire from the Tower at eleven o‘clock took Victor by surprise on the Quai d’Orsay. The Expo was about to close. He walked on, arms swinging, remembering Danilo’s ...
( Category: Mystery October 17,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1987-11-03 | Author:Welch, James [Welch, James]

She looked to the Backbone. The granite faces above the dark forests seemed to watch over the winter camp of the Lone Eaters. Red Paint had enjoyed the summer in ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 17,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2004-05-27 | Author:Byock, Jesse L. [Byock, Jesse L.]

7. Victory runes shall you know If you want to secure wisdom, And cut them on the sword hilt, On the center ridge of the blade, And the parts of ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 17,2017 )