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Inferno by Anita Kinley
epub |nld | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anita Kinley [Kinley, Anita]

44 Anita Kinley “Dylan. My name is Dylan. And I think you’re close to coming.” Dylan watched as Whisman nodded. Desire surged though his body, seeing those gray eyes close ...
( Category: European June 29,2017 )
Inseparable by Emma Donoghue
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Emma Donoghue [Donoghue, Emma]

David Henry Friston, in J. Sheridan LeFanu, Carmilla, in The Dark Blue (March 1872). LeFanu’s vampire tale first appeared in installments in this short-lived journal with an impressive roster of ...
( Category: European June 28,2017 )
The Picture of Dorian Gray by SparkNotes
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:SparkNotes [SparkNotes]

This testimony is strikingly similar to Dorian’s reflection upon the kind of affection that Basil shows him: [I]t was really love—[it] had nothing in it that was not noble and ...
( Category: European June 28,2017 )
The Year of the Death Of Ricardo Reis by Saramago Jose
epub |eng | 1992-04-27 | Author:Saramago, Jose [Saramago, Jose]

As one has already seen in other times and other places, life has its vexations. When Ricardo Reis awoke late next morning, he sensed a presence in the room. Perhaps ...
( Category: European June 19,2017 )
Herrndorf, Wolfgang by tschick
epub |deu | 2010-11-27 | Author:tschick [tschick]

26 Zum Abschied gingen sie noch alle mit ans Gartentor, und da bekamen wir einen riesigen Kürbis geschenkt. Der lag da rum, ein riesiger Kürbis, falls wir Hunger hätten, könnten ...
( Category: European June 14,2017 )
Crime and Punishment (Transl. Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
epub |eng | | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

He drew a deep breath—yet, strangely, it was as if the dream were still going on: his door was wide open, and a man completely unknown to him was standing ...
( Category: Russian June 8,2017 )
Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller
epub |eng | 2004-12-07 | Author:Friedrich Schiller [Schiller, Friedrich]

ON DIGNITY. As grace is the expression of a noble soul, so is dignity the expression of elevated feeling. It has been prescribed to man, it is true, to establish ...
( Category: Regional & Cultural June 7,2017 )
Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

the shining torch of the sun fell into the ocean. * * * VIII THE HIGHLAND LIGHT This light-house, known to mariners as the Cape Cod or Highland Light, is ...
( Category: United States June 7,2017 )
Shakespeare in Swahililand by Edward Wilson-Lee
epub |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Edward Wilson-Lee

MATHU: … Sir, I am afraid of this [legislation] because I do not want the Government and this legislature to be accused of being like Shakespeare’s Shylock, the Jew, and ...
( Category: Shakespeare May 21,2017 )
Adama by al-Hamad Turki; Bray Robin;
epub |eng | | Author:al-Hamad, Turki; Bray, Robin;

33 Hisham informed Fahd of Adnan’s agreement, and at the next meeting of the cell Fahd gave him a password to convey to Adnan: ‘Hauran’s a great place’. At the ...
( Category: African May 21,2017 )
The Music of a Life by Andreï Makine
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Andreï Makine [Makine, Andreï]

During the first two years at the front, Alexeï received four or five letters addressed to the man whose name he bore. He did not reply, and reflected that his ...
( Category: Russian May 21,2017 )
Mountains Painted with Turmeric by Lil Bahadur Chettri
epub |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Lil Bahadur Chettri

16 Dhané was walking toward his fields from the far side of the valley, expecting to hear the sound of water running down the channel in the distance, but he ...
( Category: Asian May 21,2017 )
Forbidden Words by Leo Tolstoy
epub | | 2010-05-18 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

The First Step – Introduction In 1892, Tolstoy wrote The First Step as a preface to the Russian publication of The Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams; a book which ...
( Category: Russian May 19,2017 )
Trinity of Passion by Wald Alan M.;
epub |eng | 2007-04-25 | Author:Wald, Alan M.;

Four years later, this perpetual adolescent who never grew taller than four feet, eight inches, was propelled to national fame when she published, under her new name, Lauren Gilfillan, the ...
( Category: United States April 26,2017 )
American Night by Wald Alan M.;
epub |eng | 2010-04-24 | Author:Wald, Alan M.;

EXILE AND ITS DISCONTENTS Motley’s writing was never about just homosexuals or African Americans; his gaze focused first of all on the skeins and rags of human existence, shaping them ...
( Category: United States April 25,2017 )

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