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Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets From Her Notebooks by John Curran
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:John Curran [Curran, John]

The title page of the Curtain typescript, showing the title and name-and-address in Christie’s own handwriting. Curtain Poirot investigates story of death believed caused by ricin B. Poirot’s Last Case ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 22,2014 )
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane

That’s like us.” “Lost a piler men, they did. If an’ ol’ woman swep’ up th’ woods she’d git a dustpanful.” “Yes, an’ if she’ll come around ag’in in ’bout ...
( Category: United States September 22,2014 )
The Boat in the Evening by Tarjei Vesaas
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tarjei Vesaas

Is there a smell of meat here? Is a dog howling outside the wall? Is this Sirius’ Slaughterhouse? Now it is the fourteenth night. There is no dog. I say ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
Notre-Dame de Paris (Oxford World's Classics) by Hugo Victor
epub |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Hugo, Victor [Hugo, Victor]

III THE BELLS SINCE the morning in the pillory, it had seemed to the people living near Notre-Dame that they could detect a considerable cooling-off in Quasimodo’s ardour for ringing ...
( Category: Historical September 22,2014 )
Shakespeare: A Life by Park Honan
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-03-15 | Author:Park Honan [Honan, Park]

The vendor William Underhill, who lived part of the year at Idlicote, was a Catholic recusant who appeared to Stephen Burman to be 'subtle, covetous, and crafty'. However bad he ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 22,2014 )
Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

THOMAS MANN So enormous at first glance that he might convince us he can safely be read about rather than read, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is nevertheless the twentieth-century cultural figure ...
( Category: Humanism September 22,2014 )
The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by Romain Puertolas
mobi |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Romain Puertolas

Italy ‘AND THAT IS how I ended up inside your trunk, madame,’ Ajatashatru concluded with a half-smile. Disappearing inside a piece of luggage in Barcelona and reappearing in Rome was, ...
( Category: Study Guides September 22,2014 )
Atop an Underwood by Jack Kerouac
epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jack Kerouac

Odyssey (Continued) A series of short uneventful rides, and I find myself standing by the side of the road just over the Connecticut border. I am shaded by a natural ...
( Category: Beat Generation September 22,2014 )
Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon by Algernon Swinburne
epub |eng | 2009-12-27 | Author:Algernon Swinburne

And give our spears their spoil, the wild boar’s hide, 40 Sent in thine anger against us for sin done And bloodless altars without wine or fire. Him now consume ...
( Category: Renaissance September 22,2014 )
The Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser
epub |eng | 2009-09-09 | Author:Edmund Spenser

And in her snowy bosome boldly lay 290 Their quiet heads, deuoyd of guilty shame, After full ioyance of their gentle game, Then her they crowne their Goddesse and their ...
( Category: Renaissance September 22,2014 )
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
epub |eng | | Author:Edmund Spenser

CANTO IX The Squire of low degree releast Pœana takes to wife: Britomart fightes with many Knights Prince Arthur stints their strife. 1 Hard is the doubt, and difficult to ...
( Category: Renaissance September 22,2014 )
Raw Spirit by Iain Banks
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Iain Banks

9: The Awemsys of Azshashoshz SOMEHOW WE GET up to another great day – and more coffee and bacon rolls – at half-nine despite only getting to bed at five. ...
( Category: Spirits September 22,2014 )
Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Vowell

OBITUARIES What I See When I Look at the Face on the $20 Bill BEING AT LEAST A LITTLE Cherokee in eastern Oklahoma where I was born is about as ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers September 22,2014 )
Something Wholesale by Eric Newby
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Newby [Eric Newby]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Nice Bit of Crêpe ‘There was nothing basically new in the latest London Designers Collection for Export … Very little handling of new colour … One inch ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield
epub |eng | 2012-08-06 | Author:Jack Canfield [Canfield, Jack]

All God's Children Accept others without condition. It's the very essence of love. Linda Allison-Lewis The night receptionist handed me a slip of paper. "The volunteer chaplain would like to ...
( Category: Self Help September 22,2014 )

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