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The Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

my vision fell from me exactly so the instant a new light beat on my face, a light outshining any that men know. I was looking all about, as if ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Divine Comedy 2: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick
mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Count of Monte Cristo (Abridged B&N) by Alexandre Dumas
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Alexandre Dumas

Chapter XXXVIII PYRAMUS AND THISBE Our readers must permit us to conduct them to the enclosure surrounding Monsieur de Villefort’s house, and, behind the gate half hidden by wide-spreading chestnut-trees, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1971-05-01 | Author:Jack Kerouac

15 I put on my new flannel shirt and new socks and underwear and my jeans and packed the rucksack tight and slung it on and went to San Francisco ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Ramsey Campbell

The Show Goes On The nails were worse than rusty; they had snapped. Under cover of several coats of paint, both the door and its frame had rotted. As Lee ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-10-31 | Author:Ken Follett

CHAPTER TWO APRIL 1 THE MUSIC HALL was as hot as a Turkish bath. The air smelled of beer, shellfish and unwashed people. Onstage a young woman dressed in elaborate ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
Dark star: a novel by Alan Furst
mobi |eng | 2002-07-09 | Author:Alan Furst

The car was empty, the passenger door ajar as it had been left. It would make, Szara thought, at least a hiding place, and he directed Baumann to lie flat ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers March 25,2014 )
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Mary Ann Shaffer

An Animal Lover From Sally Ann Frobisher to Juliet 15th May 1946 Dear Miss Ashton, Miss Pribby told me you would be coming to Guernsey to hear about the war. ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
Katherine by Anya Seton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Anya Seton

That night when the guests had all retired, Katherine lay waiting between silken sheets for her lord to come. Her naked body glowed from the sweet herbs with which Hawise ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 25,2014 )
The Botticelli Secret by Marina Fiorato
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-12-28 | Author:Thomas Keneally

TWENTY-FOUR The Oskar Schindler who dismounted from his horse these days in the factory yard of Emalia was still a boomtime businessman. He looked sleekly handsome in the style of ...
( Category: Jewish March 25,2014 )
The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Jesse Bullington

XXIII The Rise of the Hammer It was not easy, being a bastard, but Ashton Kahlert managed to pull it off. Had his father acknowledged his birth and given him ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
The Dharma bums by Jack Kerouac
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1976-01-15 | Author:Jack Kerouac

I came to a hill and saw great mudflat riverbottoms with stinks and tarns and awful paths with women and burros ambling in the dusk, an old Chinese Mexican beggar ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 25,2014 )
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 )
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 )

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