Criticism & Theory
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:William Faulkner

IXTEEN CHARLES MALLISON This is what Ratliff said happened up to where Uncle Gavin could see it. It was January, a gray day though not cold because of the fog. ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 29,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-11-27 | Author:Ryan, Michael [Ryan, Michael]

While many cultural assumptions about gender difference may be prejudices generated by past patriarchal practices that once served communal needs that are no longer as pressing, some are nevertheless real: ...
( Category: General September 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Irvine Welsh

12 Bologna TRUDI SIPS AT her bitter coffee as she watches a grinning couple on the television, in workout gear, slowly cat-flexing with two large docile domestic felines. The idea ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Crocuses are up at the old house; daffodils bloom at the new. The children who had lived in the new house before us left Superballs under the radiators for us ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:T. Coraghessan Boyle [Boyle, T. Coraghessan]

After Gretchen had climbed into her car and the car had slid through the gate and vanished down the street, Nisha sprawled out on the grass and lifted her face ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Laura Furman [Furman, Laura]

Adam Foulds The Rules Are the Rules He would have to begin any minute now; everyone else was there: the half-dozen dads on each sideline, the boys shoaling up and ...
( Category: Satire September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Open Secrets started eating the crackers herself but she shouldn't have—a couple of bites and she wanted to puke. She took two more pills and went back upstairs. The windows ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-22 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Teenagers at the baseball game, sitting at the top of the bleachers out of the way of the boy’s friends. A couple of inches of bare wood between them, darkness ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-17 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

British Liquor Laws Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 Selections from original legislation pertaining to liquor and drunkenness Metropolitan Police Act 1839 1839 Chapter 47 An Act for further improving the ...
( Category: Victorian September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Robert James Waller [WALLER, ROBERT JAMES]

Jump Shots ______________________________________ In a Dakota February, the wind never rests. Neither do the basketball fans. Both are howling as I bring the ball upcourt in the North Dakota State ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1942-09-16 | Author:James Thurber

THE STORY OF SAILING PEOPLE who visit you in Bermuda are likely to notice, even before they notice the flowers of the island, the scores of sailing craft which fleck ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:John Berger

When the woodcutters came to wash that evening, Danielle took Pasquale aside and said: I must talk to you. Next Sunday, he said. No! she insisted. Now! I can’t stay ...
( Category: Short Stories September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Crane

That’s like us.” “Lost a piler men, they did. If an’ ol’ woman swep’ up th’ woods she’d git a dustpanful.” “Yes, an’ if she’ll come around ag’in in ’bout ...
( Category: United States September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Tarjei Vesaas

Is there a smell of meat here? Is a dog howling outside the wall? Is this Sirius’ Slaughterhouse? Now it is the fourteenth night. There is no dog. I say ...
( Category: European September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

THOMAS MANN So enormous at first glance that he might convince us he can safely be read about rather than read, Thomas Mann (1875–1955) is nevertheless the twentieth-century cultural figure ...
( Category: Humanism September 22,2014 )