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Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, Rabbit Remembered by John Updike
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-06-14 | Author:John Updike

His sister. He has always blamed himself somehow. If he had been more pleasing to Dad he wouldn't have left and Mom wouldn't have gotten drunk and it wouldn't have ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:William Trevor

Sacred Statues They would manage, Nuala had always said when there had been difficulties before. Each time it was she who saw the family through: her faith in Corry, her ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Savages: A Novel by Winslow Don
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:Winslow, Don [Winslow, Don]

112 Chon comes in an hour later. Looks at Ben and nods. Ben nods back. They sit and watch the computer screen. 113 The cell phone rings. Lado answers it. ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The Bostonians by Henry James
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-02-19 | Author:Henry James

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Boethius

‘Whoever deeply searches out the truth And will not be decoyed down false by-ways, Shall turn unto himself his inward gaze, Shall bring his wandering thoughts in circle home (5) ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Kobo Abe

20 HIS face was as stiff as starch, his breathing like a storm. His saliva tasted of dry scorched sugar … and such a terrible loss of energy. At least ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The secret agent by Joseph Conrad
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-15 | Author:Joseph Conrad

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: British & Irish March 25,2014 )
All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-16 | Author:Andrew Kaufman

In seat F27 the Perfectionist continues snoring. Tom puts his head in his hands. He leans forward, reaches into the pocket of the seat in front of him and pulls ...
( Category: Surrealism March 25,2014 )
The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

But it was fitting that to the broken stone that guards the bridge, Florence should offer a victim to mark the last day’s peace she has ever known. With such ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-08-14 | Author:Ralph Ellison

Chapter 14 The odor of Mary's cabbage changed my mind. Standing engulfed in the fumes filling the hall, it struck me that I couldn't realistically reject the job. Cabbage was ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Italo Calvino

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 25,2014 )
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
mobi, epub |eng | 1968-07-14 | Author:Mikhail Bulgakov

January 9th The creature's vocabulary is being enriched by a new word every five minutes (on average) and, since this morning, by sentences. It is as if they had been ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
A handful of dust by Evelyn Waugh
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Plague by Albert Camus
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-10-16 | Author:Albert Camus

PART III 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 25,2014 )
Our mutual friend by Charles Dickens
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-09-10 | Author:Charles Dickens

Mrs Lammle has sat quite still, with her eyes cast down upon the table-cloth. As Mr Lammle's address ends, Twemlow once more turns to her involuntarily, not cured yet of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )

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