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The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells
epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:William Dean Howells

XV LAPHAM’S strenuous face was broken up with the emotions that had forced him to this question: shame, fear of the things that must have been thought of him, mixed ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos
epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Benito Perez Galdos

*“Discovery reveals that only nothingness grows”: from Leopardi’s poem “Ad Angelo Mai.” †A reference to Francesca di Rimini in Dante’s Inferno, who was damned for her illicit affair with the ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese August 16,2017 )
I Think You're Totally Wrong by David Shields
epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:David Shields [Shields, David]

CALEB: I was disappointed when you refused to offer wholehearted praise of my rape novel. DAVID: That was an awkward situation. CALEB: How could it have hurt you? You wrote, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 16,2017 )
Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
epub |eng | | Author:Irwin Shaw

CHAPTER TWENTY “I’M GOING to tell you the truth,” Colclough was saying. “I’m sorry to see you back. You’re a disgrace to this Company and I don’t think we can ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 16,2017 )
Cavalleria rusticana and Other Stories by GIOVANNI VERGA
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:GIOVANNI VERGA [VERGA, GIOVANNI]

How, when and why Signor Polidori and Signora Rinaldi were in love – or thought they were – which sometimes amounts to the same thing; and if there is such ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 16,2017 )
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals by Patricia Lockwood
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Patricia Lockwood

See a Furious Waterfall Without Water Never has an empty hand been made into more of a fist, and Waterfall Without it swings so hard it swings out of existence. ...
( Category: Poetry August 16,2017 )
Chaos of the Senses by Ahlem Mosteghanemi
epub |eng | 2014-07-14 | Author:Ahlem Mosteghanemi

Chapter Four Inevitably WE ALWAYS ARRIVE AT love just a bit late. Then we knock cautiously on somebody’s heart, apologizing before the fact for a sentiment that we know will ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 16,2017 )
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Carlos Fuentes

4 Now you know why Aura is living in this house: to perpetuate the illusion of youth and beauty in that poor, crazed old lady. Aura, kept here like a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 16,2017 )
The Miser's Sister by Carola Dunn
epub |eng | 1984-08-16 | Author:Carola Dunn [Dunn, Carola]

Chapter 14 The next morning, when Rose asked Oliver to accompany her to Curzon Street, he growled at her. Rose scarcely noticed. She was wondering whether it was too much ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 16,2017 )
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook by Riggs Ransom
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Riggs, Ransom [Riggs, Ransom]

Try as he might to keep the detective locked in his watery grave, however, Holmes refused to stay there forever. Perhaps Doyle’s repulsion toward him had waned over time, or ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 16,2017 )
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide
epub |eng | 2012-05-02 | Author:Andre Gide [Gide, Andre]

II : Edouard’s Journal: At the Vedels’ Sept. 28th.—I found Rachel standing at the door of the big class-room on the ground floor. Two servants were washing the boards. She ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jen Campbell [Campbell, Jen]

♦ Montolieu Near Carcassonne, surrounded by vineyards, there’s a little village called Montolieu. Here, back in the day, they used to make paper. In 1989 Michel Braibant, a local bookbinder, ...
( Category: Skills August 16,2017 )
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-11 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

CHAPTER 2 A visit from Albertine – The prospect of a wealthy marriage for some of Saint-Loup’s friends – Guermantes wit and the Princess of Parma – A curious visit ...
( Category: Classics August 16,2017 )
Love by Douglas R
epub |eng | 2014-12-23 | Author:Douglas R. [R, Douglas]

19 "You kissed her!" Sherri throws her arms up. "I thought you'd do better than that," says Matty. Sherri shoots him a glare and elbows his side. "Ouch!" Blake watches ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science August 16,2017 )
The Odyssey by Fagles Robert & Homer & Knox Bernard
epub |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Fagles, Robert & Homer & Knox, Bernard [Knox, Bernard]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Classics August 15,2017 )

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