Criticism & Theory
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 | 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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-10 | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Sub jectiveness—these are threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order, but ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Flannery O'Connor & Sally Fitzgerald & Robert Fitzgerald

Every now and then the novelist looks up from his work long enough to become aware of a general public dissatisfaction with novelists. There’s always a voice coming from somewhere ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875-1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was a ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Umberto Eco

How to Buy Gadgets The aircraft flies majestically over boundless prairies, immense deserts. This American continent can still offer moments of solitary, almost tactile encounter with nature. I am forgetting ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )