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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush by Colm Toibin
epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Colm Toibin [Colm Toibin]

Among the audience that night was the twenty-seven-year-old James Joyce, home briefly from Trieste, and he published an account of the whole business in Il Piccolo ella Serda in Trieste. ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Anthony Burgess [Anthony Burgess]

Riding back, presents and money bestowed and duty done, WS saw the terrible mystery of fatherhood clearly in the spring weather but, more than that, the horror of its responsibility. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 5,2017 )
Enchanted Evening by M. M. Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:M. M. Kaye

Chapter 21 It was Limerston Street that changed the whole direction of my life from art to writing. I could cope with the days, because I was kept busy working ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 5,2017 )
Murder by Candlelight by Michael Knox Beran
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Knox Beran

Nearly an hour passed before Greenacre’s body was cut down from the gallows and taken back into Newgate. It was buried, under cover of darkness, in Birdcage Walk. Sarah Gale ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 5,2017 )
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Alice Ozma [OZMA, ALICE]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Day 1,528 She tried to think of every pleasant and beautiful and wonderful thing she knew. She made a list of all the miracles in her mind. She ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 5,2017 )
Granta 133 by
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-05 | Author:

For the few weeks of the digging season, the archaeologists took up residence in the village hall, which served as refectory, social hub, Wi-Fi station and laboratory. Sometimes in the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster) by Dave Barry
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Dave Barry

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT HOME OWNERSHIP I LEARNED FROM JOHNNY CARSON * * * * * * Basically there are two kinds of houses: New houses, which are crap, because ...
( Category: Humor September 4,2017 )
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez [Marquez, Gabriel Garcia]

In spite of his right-wing sympathies and personal friendship with Laureano Gómez, Carranza highlighted the sonnets in his literary pages, more as a journalistic scoop than a political proclamation. But ...
( Category: Arts & Literature September 4,2017 )
The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
epub |eng | 2014-09-04 | Author:Sasha Abramsky [Sasha Abramsky]

Behind the Everyman volumes were still more books: these were cheap paperback political texts, worth little monetarily, but cumulatively providing an understanding of the day-to-day political debates of the first ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 4,2017 )
The Companion by Agatha Christie
epub |eng | | Author:Agatha Christie

‘I tried to speak to the vicar yesterday, to confess all, but was not allowed. She would not let me. I can make amends only one way—a life for a ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

Chapter V WHICH CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING BETWEEN TWO DISTINGUISHED PERSONS OF MIRGOROD Ivan Ivanovich had only just finished his household chores and gone out, as usual, to ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
The Committee (Middle East Literature in Translation) by Sun' Allah Ibrahim
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Sun' Allah Ibrahim

"Not at all. I ate dinner before I came. You go ahead, if you like." "I'm worn out. I'm not really hungry and I'd like to get to bed now. ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 4,2017 )
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Dickinson
epub |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Emily Dickinson [Dickinson, Emily]

No squirrel went abroad; A dog’s belated feet Like intermittent plush were heard Adown the empty street. To feel if blinds be fast, And closer to the fire Her little ...
( Category: Poetry September 4,2017 )
The Columbia History of British Poetry by Carl Woodring & James Shapiro
epub |eng | 1993-10-14 | Author:Carl Woodring & James Shapiro [Woodring, Carl & Shapiro, James]

( Category: Poetry September 4,2017 )
Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Arthur Schnitzler

I WAS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD at that time, and it was my seventh duel-not my own, but the seventh in which I participated as a second. You can smirk if ...
( Category: Contemporary September 4,2017 )

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