History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-10 | Author:Barghouti, Mourid [Barghouti, Mourid]

I contemplated the guesthouse on whose platform I stood. This is my first place. The faces of its men and their voices come back to me. Or is it my ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-01 | Author:David Acord

SECRET 17 How to Be a Good Watson I swear that another day shall not have passed before I have done all that man can do to reach the heart ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-02-09 | Author:Kevin R. Grazier

Did they really talk that way? The Plot The story begins with the appearance of a mortally injured man in the Arizona desert. He is raving and suffering from strange ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Marja Mills

Chapter Seventeen Nelle pulled into the driveway next door and, with a wave, she and Alice disappeared inside. Alice explored the world from that modest house. She did it year ...
( Category: United States December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Laurie Notaro

At six the next morning, the phone rang loudly, and I froze. I held my breath as my husband answered it, then exhaled when I saw a smile stretch across ...
( Category: Humor December 19,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-12-13 | Author:David Foster Wallace

MONKEY: If, say, you win here in South Carolina, what do you do then? MURPHY: Fly to Michigan that night. MONKEY: And what if hypothetically you, say, lose here in ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-04-15 | Author:Kate Summerscale

CHAPTER FOURTEEN WOMEN! HOLD YOUR TONGUES! November-December 1860 In the first, cold days of November, the strangest inquiry yet opened at the Temperance Hall. Thomas Saunders, a barrister and magistrate ...
( Category: Mystery & Detective December 19,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Russian December 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

For a long time he lay on his back smoking, staring into the blackness of the cavernous roof. The corporals’ snores rose and fell in counterpoint. He was exhausted, but ...
( Category: Alternate History Science Fiction December 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-23 | Author:Smith, Ali [Smith, Ali]

I was sitting at home in the study, at the desk. I was two-thirds of the way through Oliver Twist. The bad, lost, poor, desperate, filthy, hopeless girl from the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Walter Benjamin,Lecia Rosenthal [Benjamin, Walter]

1 In 1931, the Yangtze River valley flooded in a catastrophe that killed millions and that has been called the worst natural disaster of the twentieth century. 2 See “Der ...
( Category: European December 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Langston Hughes [Hughes, Langston]

MISSISSIPPI Oh, what sorrow! Oh, what pity! Oh, what pain That tears and blood Should mix like rain And terror come again To Mississippi. Again? Where has terror been? On ...
( Category: United States December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:Bessie Head

Eight Paulina Sebeso awoke early the next morning. She was in a slightly unbalanced mood, and the clear, sparkling light of the heady winter morning added to her intoxication. On ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Eleven As she began to sway on her feet, the judge, who was nearest to her, jumped up and took her arm. “Are you wounded?” he asked sharply. The poetess ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

Eleven Up in his room Judge Dee sat down heavily in the armchair by the window. The murder of Tai Min had been solved now. He would see to it ...
( Category: Movements & Periods December 8,2014 )