History & Criticism
epub |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: German March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-31 | Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von]

AUGUST 4. I am not alone unfortunate. All men are disappointed in their hopes, and deceived in their expectations. I have paid a visit to my good old woman under ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1999-04-30 | Author:Thomas Mann [Mann, Thomas]

( Category: Occult March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

29. ETHELBERTA’S DRESSING-ROOM—MR. DONCASTLE’S HOUSE The dressing of Ethelberta for the dinner-party was an undertaking into which Picotee threw her whole skill as tirewoman. Her energies were brisker that day ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:Christopher Morley [Morley, Christopher]

Plainly the Professor was the traditional hero of this family, and I began to feel rather like an impostor! I suppose it was foolish of me, but I had already ...
( Category: Booksellers & Bookselling March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Fenimore Cooper

CHAPTER XVIII “Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.” OTHELLO. The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2002-10-29 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

Certain foreigners of distinction, who, when I made my début in society, gave grand dinner-parties to which they only invited the Princesse de Guermantes, the Duchesse de Guermantes and the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1996-05-11 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

930 made my grandmother swallow this drug and then replaced the thermometer in her mouth. Like an implacable warder to whom one presents a permitsigned by a higher authority whose ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SECRET SHARER *** ***** This file ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-06-30 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

CHAPTER IX Mr Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-02 | Author:Joseph Conrad & Steven Marcus & Tatiana M. Holway [Conrad, Joseph & Marcus, Steven & Holway, Tatiana M.]

CHAPTER IX Mr Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * BOOK SIXTH MRS. BROOK Presenting himself at Buckingham Crescent three days after the Sunday spent at Mertle, Vanderbank found Lady Fanny Cashmore in the act of taking ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

The Old Man of the Name of Tulkinghorn ‘Stay!’ She negligently calls him back. ‘Remain here, I beg. I am going out to dinner. I have nothing more to say ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub | | 1997-10-14 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

escape in my life, speaking of escapes, you see, in a general way. In the woods, you know, and crawling, and swamps— up around that mountain country. Rubber hoses and ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER LI SHEWING WHAT HAPPENED DURING MISS STANBURY'S ILLNESS It was on Christmas-day that Sir Peter Mancrudy, the highest authority on such matters in the west of England, was sent ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )