Criticism & Theory
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Wolff, Tobias [Wolff, Tobias]

The next night they went bowling. This was Mary Ann’s idea. She was a good bowler and frankly out to win. Whenever she got a strike she threw her head ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-06-28 | Author:Zane

14 * * * reciprocity “Hang on for a second, Trisha.” Dvontè tossed the phone on his love seat and went to look out the peephole, wondering who would be ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Margaret Atwood

Cordelia begins to pinch things from stores. She doesn’t call it stealing, she calls it pinching. She pinches tubes of lipstick from Woolworth’s, packets of licorice Nibs from the drugstore. ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1994-02-14 | Author:Philip Roth

Shikses! In winter, when the polio germs are hibernating and I can bank upon surviving outside of an iron lung until the end of the school year, I ice-skate on ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Thomas Mann

Evenings he gazed at the stars. He was seized with an interest in the passing year— he who had already spent some twenty-odd cycles upon this earth without ever troubling ...
( Category: Modernism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-07-03 | Author:Terry Pratchett

HERE’S a werewolf with Pre-Lunar Tension in Ankfe-Morpork. And a dwarf with attitude and a golem who’s begun to think for itself. But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:R. K. Narayan

Her eyes lit up with a new hope when I spoke about the dance. It was after all her art that I first admired; of late, in our effort to ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Martin Amis

“Hey. Hey! Ain’t no damn use you sneaking out like that. Have you read my novel yet?” “Yes,” said Rodney. Rodney said Yes, not because it was true or anything ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Dorothy Allison

11 I recognized Shannon Pearl immediately on the first Monday of the school year. I’d seen her with her family at the revival tent. Her daddy booked singers for the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )