History & Criticism
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Sirmione, even in early May, was full of other tourists. “The kids are here,” the couple said, continuing a joke that had developed in Venice and continued into Ravenna, where ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-28 | Author:Dorothy West [West, Dorothy]

THE MAPLE TREE Liz Terrell and Betsy Comden were summer neighbors. Their friendly relationship did not extend into winter, except for an exchange of Christmas cards, because their common interests ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | 2010-07-05 | Author:McCarthy, Cormac [Cormac, McCarthy|]

No Country For Old Men VI Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it's just that you dont grow up ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf, mobi |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]

Berlin was also in the grip of snow, but here the sullen goaded helplessness of the Russias was replaced by a malignant euphoria hardly less dispiriting. The air was tonic ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

“Hey. Hey! Ain’t no damn use you sneaking out like that. Have you read my novel yet?” “Yes,” said Rodney. Rodney said Yes, not because it was true or anything ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-07-14 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

Chapter 40 I t’s Sunday evening. There’s a fire in the fireplace; the drapes are drawn against the heavy November darkness. My father sits in the easy chair marking drawings ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-12-31 | Author:Joanna Trollope [Trollope, Joanna]

Chapter Eleven The Internet café and coffee shop that Henry used was in the back part of a nail parlour. The whole enterprise was run with unsmiling briskness by a ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Ian McEwan [McEwan, Ian]

Conversation with a Cupboard Man You ask me what I did when I saw this girl. Well, I’ll tell you. You see that cupboard there, it takes up most of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-11 | Author:Murasaki Shikibu [Shikibu, Murasaki]

The New Year came and the crown princess's time drew near. There were continuous prayers at Nijo and services were commissioned at numerous shrines and temples. Remembering Aoi's last days, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mark Harris [Harris, Mark]

Bang The Drum Slowly 99 Chapter 10 “Arthur,” said Bruce to me, “how do I change my beneficiary?” “Who do you wish to change it to?” said I. “To Katie,” ...
( Category: Sports March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-03-31 | Author:Tobias George Smollett [Smollett, Tobias George]

To Dr LEWIS. I have not found all the benefit I expected at Scarborough, where I have been these eight days -- From Harrigate we came hither by the way ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Ernest Raymond [Raymond, Ernest]

Chapter II T HAT WAS the first day. Next day the papers were full of the inquest, and Paul, loafing and idling about his rooms, saw from the windows people ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2009-10-03 | Author:Kate Chopin [Chopin, Kate]

XXVI ALCEE AROBIN WROTE Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity. It embarrassed her; for in a cooler, quieter moment it appeared to her, absurd that she should ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:David Malouf [Malouf, David]

Lone Pine Driving at speed along the narrow dirt highway, Harry Picton could have given no good reason for stopping where he did. There was a pine. Perhaps it was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

CITIES & EYES • 4 WHEN YOU HAVE arrived at Phyllis, you rejoice in observing all the bridges over the canals, each different from the others: cambered, covered, on pillars, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 26,2014 )