History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Right Book, Right Time- 500 Great Reads for Teenagers (epub)

Mao’s Last Dancer LI CUNXIN A/YA/Y AUSTRALIA 2004 I was nearly eleven years old when . . . the headmaster came in with four dignified-looking people . . . They ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Algernon Blackwood

VII A wall of silence wrapped them in, for the snow, though not thick, was sufficient to deaden any noise, and the frost held things pretty tight besides. No sound ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-10 | Author:Burton Watson

Till you shaved your head, you hated me. Now I rejoice you’re launched on the path of Truth, firm as a catalpa bow. Yokobue replied with this poem: I shaved ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 27,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

Part Seven THE STEAMSHIP departed in the early evening with the tide; despite the rain, the sea was calm. A day away from the Canary Islands they woke to a ...
( Category: Literary September 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-09 | Author:Brandon, Ali [Brandon, Ali]

FIFTEEN WITH THE MARNIE SITUATION SETTLED—OR SO DARLA hoped!—she spent the next hour or so returning the displaced books to their proper places. Of course, being the avid reader that ...
( Category: Mystery September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Anthology [Anthology]

He looked at the paper that held the wife’s picture. He tried to juxtapose the picture with Maybelle’s. He failed. He realized he couldn’t summon his own wife’s face. He ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2002-04-02 | Author:Bain, Donald [Bain, Donald]

Chapter Nine It was barely daylight when I steered the bicycle out of the garage and leaned it against the tree. My feline friend was also up early and came ...
( Category: Mystery September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nikos Kazantzakis [Kazantzakis, Nikos]

CHAPTER 7 EARLY NEXT DAY, when the Kanea gate was thrown open, the dark news entered the town: Nuri Bey had been found dead in his country house! In the ...
( Category: Contemporary September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:James Michener [Michener, James]

BARBILDO : How did you get on at Salamanca? LEONELO: That’s a long story. BARBILDO: You must be a very learned man by now. LEONELO: No, I’m not even a ...
( Category: Travel Writing September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien [TOLKIEN, J.R.R.]

Frodo dozed, though the pain of his wound was slowly growing, and a deadly chill was spreading from his shoulder to his arm and side. His friends watched over him, ...
( Category: Fantasy September 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-02 | Author:Sir Walter Scott [Scott, Sir Walter]

CHAPTER XIX PISTOL. And tidings do I bring, and lucky joys, And happy news of price. FALSTAFF. I prithee now deliver them like to men of this world. PISTOL. A ...
( Category: Classics September 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2003-03-01 | Author:Bernard Shaw [Shaw, Bernard]

ACT IV The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. Nobody in the room. The clock on the mantelpiece strikes twelve. The fire is not alight: it is a summer night. Presently Higgins ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays September 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:SparkNotes [Sparknotes Editors]

Analysis Until this point, Marlow’s narrative has featured prominently mysterious signs and symbols, which Marlow has struggled to interpret. Now he confronts the reality of the Inner Station, and witnesses ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jack Kerouac

93 We all sit on a curbstone and Raphael collapses sitting crosslegged in the road facing us and begins talking and gesturing in the air those hands—Some of us are ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-19 | Author:Andrew Cook

• REFUGE • Ivar got in touch, quite suddenly. Reggie Acquart thought he’d found the perfect property. Could Ian come out and see it? Ian could. Reggie, a Jamaican by ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides September 25,2017 )