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20.01 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
mobi |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

CHAPTER XIII I NOW HASTEN TO the more moving part of my story. I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
06.01 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
mobi |eng | 1988-01-31 | Author:George Orwell

Chapter V Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day nobody mentioned him. On ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2017 )
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Sean O'Casey [Sean O’Casey]

Nora (in a quiet and monotonous tone) No … Not there, Jack … I can feel comfortable only in our own familiar place beneath th’ bramble tree … We must ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays August 23,2017 )
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1998-11-14 | Author:Angela Carter [Carter, Angela]

EIGHT Since the star had not worked circuses before, there was a good deal of animosity towards her in the company, especially amongst the Charivaris, high-wire dancers themselves for centuries, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
February House by Sherill Tippins
epub |eng | | Author:Sherill Tippins

Young Tree. When are we to see him? 1st Goose. He will be born at the next Blue Moon. Chorus of Old Trees. She’s lying. It isn’t true. O I’m ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
Writing by Duras Marguerite
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:Duras, Marguerite [Duras, Marguerite]

I saw the sky and sunlight streaming through the trees; mutilated, black trees, also killed in the fields. I saw that the trees were still black. And then there was ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 23,2017 )
Sex with Shakespeare by Jillian Keenan
epub |eng | 2016-02-25 | Author:Jillian Keenan

3.4 Antony and Cleopatra: Here Is My Space I gasped and sat up in bed. To my left, on his side of the mattress, David was still asleep. He hadn’t ...
( Category: Relationships August 23,2017 )
Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

The sentences of this prose may be very long, heavily punctuated throughout, and welded together with semicolons. Its lexicon is enormously wide, its spheres of reference global. We think of ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
The Healing by Gayl Jones
epub |eng | 2005-08-23 | Author:Gayl Jones [Jones, Gayl]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The groom held the reins of the mare, a blackish-brown beauty, graceful, delicate. A horse like that could only be a Thoroughbred. I wondered what sort of horse ...
( Category: United States August 23,2017 )
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
epub |eng | | Author:Annie Dillard

VI The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega. It is God’s brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blended note of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology August 23,2017 )
Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Rowland Hughes
epub |eng | 2016-08-23 | Author:Rowland Hughes

4 FIRST KILL ‘Guilty thou art of murder and of theft.’1 SO BEGAN A curious partnership between Barbara Lady Skelton and Captain Jerry Jackson – a partnership of business as ...
( Category: British & Irish August 23,2017 )
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence by Kirsten Lodge
epub |eng | 2012-07-02 | Author:Kirsten Lodge

V The July day was unbearably hot. The sun heated the dry, hazy air through and through. The trees with their broad, fully-grown leaves silently, sleepily, happily took in the ...
( Category: Poetry August 23,2017 )
Gilgamesh by John Gardner
epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

TABLET IV Column i At twenty leagues they broke off a morsel. 1(?) At thirty leagues they prepared for the night. At fifty leagues they walked all day. The distance ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition) by Muhsin Mahdi
epub |eng | | Author:Muhsin Mahdi

But morning overtook Shahrazad, and she lapsed into silence. Then Dinarzad said to her sister, “What a strange and entertaining story!” Shahrazad replied, “What is this compared with what I ...
( Category: Literary August 23,2017 )
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
epub |eng | 2016-05-24 | Author:Helene Hanff

Friday, July 2 I saw Trinity College and walked the Yard John Donne walked; I saw Oriel and sat in John Henry’s chapel. And what I went through to see ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers August 22,2017 )

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