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While England Sleeps by David Leavitt
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:David Leavitt

At the flat, breath whistled, sweet as ever, through sleeping Edward’s slightly parted teeth. Chapter Eight The world was ending, but in London women gossiped and argued over the price ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 4,2015 )
Rendezvous in Black by Cornell Woolrich
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-03-15 | Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]

But the square's still there, and the same old things go on. It's June first, it's a Saturday night, and the lights are all blazing and the whole town's out ...
( Category: Crime March 4,2015 )
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Melvyn Bragg

She fed the old hen. The cow was in the lot. She has a new hat. He sits on a tin box. Spelling began early, simply, at school, through Noah ...
( Category: Linguistics March 4,2015 )
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-07 | Author:Andrew Wilson [Wilson, Andrew]

Like the character of Sydney Bartleby in A Suspension of Mercy, Highsmith expressed a desire to write for television. ‘Would love to learn to write for TV,’ she told Peggy ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 4,2015 )
The Hangman's Row Enquiry by Ann Purser
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:Ann Purser [Purser, Ann]

THE GAMBLING THREESOME was the object of great interest in the lounge after supper. Four ladies, all somberly dressed as befitted their widow status, had their usual game of whist, ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 3,2015 )
The Measby Murder Enquiry
epub |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Purser, Ann

DEIRDRE WAS ON her way back from Measby. It was lunchtime, but she was not hungry, and headed for Springfields, where she could get handover details of the blackmailer from ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 3,2015 )
Discontent and its Civilizations by Mohsin Hamid
epub |eng | 2015-02-03 | Author:Mohsin Hamid

POLITICS 8 The Usual Ally Divided We Fall After Sixty Years, Will Pakistan Be Reborn? The Usual Ally I REMEMBER, as a boy in Lahore, the moment I learned Pakistan ...
( Category: General March 3,2015 )
A History of Roman Art by Steven L. Tuck
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Steven L. Tuck

Suggestions for Further Reading Larry F. Ball, Domus Aurea and the Roman Architectural Revolution (Cambridge University Press 2003). This thorough study of Nero’s grand palace includes a needed comprehensive analysis ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 3,2015 )
Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers by Lee Server
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lee Server [Server, Lee]

ror, The (1899); Lady of the Pool, The (1894); Little tion of the blacks in Drum’s apocalyptic slave re-Tiger (1925); Love’s Logic and Other Stories (1908); Lu-volt might also have ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 3,2015 )
The Plague (Vintage International) by Albert Camus
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

PART THREE Thus week by week the prisoners of plague put up what fight they could. Some, like Rambert, even contrived to fancy they were still behaving as free men ...
( Category: French March 3,2015 )
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

New Algeria The only regime that, in the present state of affairs, would do justice to all parts of the population has long seemed to me to be a federation ...
( Category: French March 3,2015 )
Conversations With James Ellroy (Literary Conversations Series) by Steven Powell
mobi |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Steven Powell [Powell, Steven]

Document Outline Cover Contents Introduction Chronology An Interview with James Ellroy Don Swaim’s Interview of James Ellroy James Ellroy Doctor Noir Interview with a Hepcat Mad Dog and Glory: A ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective March 3,2015 )
The Pursuit of Love by Mitford Nancy
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Mitford, Nancy [Mitford, Nancy]

13 THE poor Alconleighs were now presented with crises in the lives of three of their children almost simultaneously. Linda ran away from Tony, Jassy ran away from home, and ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 3,2015 )
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-02 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

DAVEY NOW DECIDED that it would be only kind to go over and see his old friend Lady Montdore, so he rang her up and was invited to luncheon. He ...
( Category: Short Stories March 3,2015 )
Orlando Furioso: Part Two: pt. 2 (Classics) by Ariosto Ludovico
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-08-28 | Author:Ariosto, Ludovico [Ariosto, Ludovico]

As though to match our fourfold loss – to gain, Who with his nephews are compared, with reason; Knights such as these are few at any season. 58 ‘I do ...
( Category: Poetry March 3,2015 )

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