Criticism & Theory
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * XXXI. * * * The Nore sand remains covered at low-water, and never seen by human eye; but the Nore is a name to conjure with visions ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Breakfast at Tiffany's [Tiffany's, Breakfast at]

I went straight upstairs, got the bird cage, took it down and left it in front of her door. That settled that. Or so I imagined until the next morning ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:O. Henry

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Samuel Beckett [Samuel Beckett]

Quick quick my possessions. Quiet, quiet, twice, I have time, lots of time, as usual. My pencil, my two pencils, the one of which nothing remains between my huge fingers ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2001-04-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

I may have described the period of my odd quiet tête-à-tête with Gilbert as if it could have covered weeks, but in fact it covered days. Upon the last of ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: German March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1999-04-30 | Author:Thomas Mann [Mann, Thomas]

( Category: Occult March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Thomas Hardy [Hardy, Thomas]

29. ETHELBERTA’S DRESSING-ROOM—MR. DONCASTLE’S HOUSE The dressing of Ethelberta for the dinner-party was an undertaking into which Picotee threw her whole skill as tirewoman. Her energies were brisker that day ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Fenimore Cooper

CHAPTER XVIII “Why, anything: An honorable murderer, if you will; For naught I did in hate, but all in honor.” OTHELLO. The bloody and inhuman scene rather incidentally mentioned than ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1997-06-30 | Author:Joseph Conrad [Conrad, Joseph]

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: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * BOOK SIXTH MRS. BROOK Presenting himself at Buckingham Crescent three days after the Sunday spent at Mertle, Vanderbank found Lady Fanny Cashmore in the act of taking ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

The Old Man of the Name of Tulkinghorn ‘Stay!’ She negligently calls him back. ‘Remain here, I beg. I am going out to dinner. I have nothing more to say ...
( Category: United States March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-31 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

CHAPTER LI SHEWING WHAT HAPPENED DURING MISS STANBURY'S ILLNESS It was on Christmas-day that Sir Peter Mancrudy, the highest authority on such matters in the west of England, was sent ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

CHAPTER 29 Bush-Fighting During all the months that had elapsed since Mrs. Hamley’s death, Molly had wondered many a time about the secret she had so unwittingly become possessed of ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

III. SKEETER, "We've been raped, we've been raped!" – BACKGROUND VOICE ABOARD SOYUZ 5 ONE DAY in September Rabbit comes home from work to find another man in the house. ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )