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James Bond - 008 - For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Ian Fleming

RISICO "In this pizniss is much risico." The words came softly through the thick brown moustache. The hard black eyes moved slowly over Bond's face and down to Bond's hands ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

THE CAFE HAD CLOSED by the time I came down from the hills. Maggie and Geoff looked exhausted. Maggie said it had been their busiest day yet and seemed pleased ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Ethan Frome & Selected Stories by Edith Wharton
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-10 | Author:Edith Wharton

II. WHEN, PUNCTUALLY AT TEN minutes to seven, her husband had emerged from the house, Margaret Ransom remained seated in her bedroom, addressing herself anew to the difficult process of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
To the lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-23 | Author:Virginia Woolf

Chapter 18 As usual, Lily thought. There was always something that had to be done at that precise moment, something that Mrs Ramsay had decided for reasons of her own ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )
In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Tobias Wolff

Howard spent most of the dinner talking to Ron. Ron reminded him of a horse. He had a long face and muddy brown eyes and when he laughed his upper ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Louise Erdrich

The Kindred ONE DAY, AS I am standing in a strip of shade, my uncle walks up and speaks to me, low, without looking at me. It’s on you, I ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Truman Capote

FOR TWO DAYS FOLLOWING OREILLY’S arrest Sylvia did not leave her room: sun on the window, then dark. By the third day she had run out of cigarettes, so she ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
The Elephant vanishes by Haruki Murakami
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-11-15 | Author:Haruki Murakami

—translated by Jay Rubin GREETINGS, The winter cold diminishes with each passing day, and now the sunlight hints at the subtle scent of springtime. I trust that you are well. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Dusk and Other Stories by James Salter
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:James Salter

II. Today was sunny. He was writing in brief, disconsolate phrases. Yesterday it rained, it was dark until late afternoon, the day before was the same. The corridors of the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
Pulse by Julian Barnes
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Julian Barnes

Marriage Lines THE TWIN OTTER was only half-full as they took off from Glasgow: a few islanders returning from the mainland, plus some early-season weekenders with hiking boots and rucksacks. ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
Monsieur Teste by Paul Valery
mobi, epub |eng | 1989-06-30 | Author:Paul Valery

3 Excerpts from M. Teste's Logbook A prayer: Lord, I was in the void, infinitely nothing and tranquil. I was disturbed from that state, to be thrown into this strange ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Jonathan Lethem

Hazel Oh, Hazel, you’re making me crazy and lazy and hazy! Hazel, I think I love you! Hazel, you were the beginning of sex to me, a boy’s love for ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Colson Whitehead

CONEY ISLAND SUCH A MULTITUDE of stenches means it must be summer. It’s the baking asphalt that adds that special piquancy. Discomfort without end, surely this planet is hurtling into ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Portraits and Observations by Truman Capote
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Truman Capote

LOLA (1964) Yes, it seemed in every respect a curious gift. An appalling one, really. For I had already a sufficiency of pets: two dogs, an English bulldog and a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Annie Dillard

9 Flood It’s summer. We had some deep spring sunshine about a month ago, in a drought; the nights were cold. It’s been gray sporadically, but not oppressively, and rainy ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 25,2014 )

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