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Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-08-08 | Author:François Rabelais [Rabelais, François]

( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
epub, azw3 |eng | 2001-02-01 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

AUGUST 4. I am not alone unfortunate. All men are disappointed in their hopes, and deceived in their expectations. I have paid a visit to my good old woman under ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Voltaire [Voltaire]

FOOTNOTES: [8] Beuchot says: There was at that time in France an Inquisitor-General, named Brother Jean or Jacques le Graverend. His vice-inquisitor or vicar, who took part in Joan's trial, ...
( Category: Philosophy August 23,2017 )
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso
epub |eng | 1996-01-01 | Author:Torquato Tasso [Tasso, Torquato]

XLI While thus the worthies of the western crew Maintained their brave assault and skirmish hot, Her mighty bow Clorinda often drew, And many a sharp and deadly arrow shot; ...
( Category: Poetry August 23,2017 )
The "Genius by Theodore Dreiser
epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Theodore Dreiser [Dreiser, Theodore]

( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
Hard Word by John Clanchy
epub |eng | | Author:John Clanchy

Miriam ‘No, Farida,’ I say. ‘Not led the egg. Laid it.’ ‘Laid it –?’ she says. While I ponder the genius of her original suggestion: The hen led the egg. ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 23,2017 )
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
epub, azw3 |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:George R. Stewart [Stewart, George R.]

“Yes, this is comfortable,” thought Ish, resting in the big chair… And then suddenly he started! From the street came the noise of two loud reports, and he knew at ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
Modern American Memoirs by Annie Dillard
epub |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

In the morning I saw nothing but the food on my plate, the slit of light at the window. It was on the horizon, but it might have been attached ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
28.01 Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi |eng | 1963-10-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

66 THE STRONGEST THING THERE IS HE WASN’T DEAD. But he certainly looked dead; except that now and then, in the midst of all that seeming death, he would give ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
78.01 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. le Guin
mobi |eng | 2011-01-31 | Author:Ursula K. le Guin

THEY were out on the athletic fields of Abbenay’s North Park, six of them, in the long gold and heat and dust of the evening. They were all pleasantly replete, ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )
19.01 Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut
mobi |eng | 1969-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Billy traveled in time back to the veterans’ hospital again. The blanket was over his head. It was quiet outside the blanket. “Is my mother gone?” said Billy. “Yes.” Billy ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
63.01 The road by Cormac McCarthy
mobi |eng | 2006-10-14 | Author:Cormac McCarthy

They sat side by side and ate the can of pears. Then they ate a can of peaches. They licked the spoons and tipped the bowls and drank the rich ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
Penny by Borland Hal;
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Borland, Hal;

Nine The next day Penny left the cows strictly alone. We stayed at home and watched her, just to see what she did. She was a model dog, came when ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
89.02 Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
mobi |eng | 1992-07-01 | Author:Diana Gabaldon

* * * 28 The Coming of the Light I returned from Paris to Louise's house at Fontainebleau. I didn't want to go to the Rue Tremoulins—or anywhere else that ...
( Category: Time Travel August 23,2017 )
35.01 A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
mobi |eng | 2006-04-27 | Author:Walter M. Miller

The size of the sign, and its apparent attempt to advertise, led Abbot Paulo to grin and ask: “What does it say, Benjamin? Does it attract much trade up here?” ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 23,2017 )

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