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I hope they serve beer in Hell by Tucker Max
epub |eng | 2009-01-20 | Author:Tucker Max [Max Tucker]

We decide to go to a strip club, The Yellow Rose. To this day, I still laugh recalling our thought process: EI Bingeroso is too drunk and violent to walk ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage June 12,2015 )
How To Do Biography. A Primer by Nigel Hamilton
epub |eng | 2008-05-10 | Author:Nigel Hamilton [Nigel Hamilton]

TEN Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ...
( Category: Writing Skills June 12,2015 )
The Prince of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm Phillip Lopate
epub |eng | 2015-05-17 | Author:Max Beerbohm,Phillip Lopate

DIMINUENDO In the year of grace 1890, and in the beautiful autumn of that year, I was a freshman at Oxford. I remember how my tutor asked me what lectures ...
( Category: European June 12,2015 )
Leonora by Elena Poniatowska
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Elena Poniatowska

33 WHITE RABBITS LEONORA REVOLVES BENEATH THE SKYSCRAPERS, in ecstasy over this new life which makes her seasick with its speed and the force of its energy. How is it ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 12,2015 )
Treasures by Belva Plain
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Belva Plain [Plain, Belva]

“So you’ve got friendly stockholders,” Eddy said on the way into town. “That’s one of the nice things about a small community. Sometimes I miss it.” “The hell you do!” ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell
epub |eng | 2008-12-09 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER XXIII Retaliation The public-house that had been chosen by the leaders of the press-gang in Monkshaven at this time, for their rendezvous (or ‘Randyvowse’, as it was generally pronounced), ...
( Category: Victorian June 12,2015 )
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
epub |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

CHAPTER FIFTEEN He could not sleep. Thin rays of the moon passed through the cracks in the wall into the hut and fell at various spots on the floor. It ...
( Category: African June 11,2015 )
Sleep of the Innocent by Medora Sale
epub |eng | 2015-06-10 | Author:Medora Sale [Sale, Medora]

Fielding was containing his joy at the sight of Sanders pretty effectively. “Yes?” he said, drawling out the word insultingly. “Simple matter, Mr. Fielding. I would like to know the ...
( Category: Women Writers June 11,2015 )
In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse
epub |eng | 2002-06-10 | Author:Hella S. Haasse

“We grant your demands, Monseigneur,” said the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He stood with bowed head before the table in the abbey refectory, surrounded by a group of clergy. The Duke ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-06-10 | Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]

*[‘On the threshold’. Ed.] *[The bells of the church opposite Newgate Prison, which tolled to announce impending executions. Ed.] †[Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71), a former watchmaker from Blois who became one ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 11,2015 )
Vathek and Other Stories by William Beckford
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

SATIRES II From Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast, by Lady Harriet Malowy [i.e. William Beckford], 2 Vols, London, 1796. The extracts are given the volume number and the ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Emily Dickinson; Rachel Wetzsteon

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 June 11,2015 )
The Odyssey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer
mobi |eng | 2004-09-20 | Author:Homer; Robert Squillace; George Herbert Palmer

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 11,2015 )
A house for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

‘Savi, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘Anand, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘It nice?’ ‘Very nice.’ ‘Ma, Savi and Anand drinking Ovaltine. Their pappa give it to them.’ ‘Well, let me tell ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
Talking about detective fiction by P. D. James
mobi |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:P. D. James

It seems a little unjust to classify Agatha Christie's characters as being on the Punch level. She is more than that. She may draw them in clear outline with none ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective June 11,2015 )

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