History & Criticism
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-10-31 | Author:Ken Follett

CHAPTER TWO APRIL 1 THE MUSIC HALL was as hot as a Turkish bath. The air smelled of beer, shellfish and unwashed people. Onstage a young woman dressed in elaborate ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1975-01-02 | Author:Eiji Yoshikawa; Charles S. Terry; Edwin O. Reischauer

“Yes.” “Your name’s Jōtarō, isn’t it?” “Uh-huh.” “Come with me. I’ll take you to Musashi.” “Where is he?” Jōtarō asked, growing suspicious again. The girl stopped and explained that Yoshino ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-07-09 | Author:Alan Furst

The car was empty, the passenger door ajar as it had been left. It would make, Szara thought, at least a hiding place, and he directed Baumann to lie flat ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-04-15 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle

4. ONE SLIT’S ENOUGH As it turned out, Dr. Brush wasn’t a man to rock the boat, even if it was in his power to do so, which it wasn’t. ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Mary Ann Shaffer

An Animal Lover From Sally Ann Frobisher to Juliet 15th May 1946 Dear Miss Ashton, Miss Pribby told me you would be coming to Guernsey to hear about the war. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Anya Seton

That night when the guests had all retired, Katherine lay waiting between silken sheets for her lord to come. Her naked body glowed from the sweet herbs with which Hawise ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Chapter 27 Today when I woke up there was a beautiful pink sunrise, with the mist lying over the fields like a white soft cloud of muslin, and the sun ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-14 | Author:Anne Tyler

The foreigners set their car on fire, trying to install a radio. “I didn’t know radios were flammable,” Mrs. Jordan said, watching from the Bedloes’ front porch. Doug was a ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Anne Tyler

Vanessa said Joel Miller was the most pitiful man she knew of. “Ever since his wife left, the guy has been barely coping,” she told Delia. “Isn’t anyone in Bay ...
( Category: Psychological March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Natsume Soseki

PART III SENSEI’S TESTAMENT CHAPTER 55 I have had two or three letters from you this summer. I seem to remember that in the second or third you asked my ...
( Category: Asian American March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-12-28 | Author:Thomas Keneally

TWENTY-FOUR The Oskar Schindler who dismounted from his horse these days in the factory yard of Emalia was still a boomtime businessman. He looked sleekly handsome in the style of ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-12 | Author:Steve Berry

“How about we both go?” she said. He climbed down first, using the boulders as makeshift steps. She followed, her finger on the gun’s trigger, ready to instantly react. Was ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Jesse Bullington

XXIII The Rise of the Hammer It was not easy, being a bastard, but Ashton Kahlert managed to pull it off. Had his father acknowledged his birth and given him ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1976-01-15 | Author:Jack Kerouac

I came to a hill and saw great mudflat riverbottoms with stinks and tarns and awful paths with women and burros ambling in the dusk, an old Chinese Mexican beggar ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )