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Treasures by Belva Plain
epub |eng | 2014-08-05 | Author:Belva Plain [Plain, Belva]

“So you’ve got friendly stockholders,” Eddy said on the way into town. “That’s one of the nice things about a small community. Sometimes I miss it.” “The hell you do!” ...
( Category: United States June 12,2015 )
In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse
epub |eng | 2002-06-10 | Author:Hella S. Haasse

“We grant your demands, Monseigneur,” said the Abbot of Saint-Denis. He stood with bowed head before the table in the abbey refectory, surrounded by a group of clergy. The Duke ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
Vathek and Other Stories by William Beckford
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-26 | Author:William Beckford [Beckford, William]

SATIRES II From Modern Novel Writing or the Elegant Enthusiast, by Lady Harriet Malowy [i.e. William Beckford], 2 Vols, London, 1796. The extracts are given the volume number and the ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-08-07 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

The Oval Portrait THE chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2010-08-29 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: General June 11,2015 )
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell
mobi |eng | 1997-08-15 | Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“August, 1845. “Things here at home are much as usual; not very bright, as it regards Branwell, though his health, and consequently his temper, have been somewhat better this last ...
( Category: European June 11,2015 )
Chicken Soup for the Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Paperback Health Communications)) by Jack Canfield;Mark Victor Hansen
mobi |eng | 2001-07-01 | Author:Jack Canfield;Mark Victor Hansen

"Friends, we gather today to honor the memory of 'I Can't.' While he was with us on earth, he touched the lives of everyone, some more than others. His name, ...
( Category: United States June 11,2015 )
The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
epub |eng | 2007-06-03 | Author:Mark Edmundson

Freud had on his desk at 39 Elsworthy Road the third chapter of his Moses book, the chapter that would be by far the most incendiary. When it was completed—if ...
( Category: European June 4,2015 )
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (German Edition) by Robert Musil
mobi |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Robert Musil

( Category: European June 2,2015 )
Those Who Walk in Darkness by John Ridley
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-06-01 | Author:John Ridley [Ridley, John]

Different voice, another blue: "We've got him. He's… he's gone, he's gone! Southeast now. Jesus, I've never seen anything like it." A shake of Soledad's head. Blues. When it came ...
( Category: United States June 2,2015 )
Essays, First Series
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * FRIENDSHIP. A RUDDY drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. I fancied he was fled, And, ...
( Category: United States May 30,2015 )
Essays, Second Series
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * GIFTS. Gifts of one who loved me,-- 'T was high time they came; When he ceased to love me, Time they stopped for shame. V. GIFTS. IT ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
Representative Men
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * V. SHAKSPEARE; OR, THE POET. Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. If we require the originality which consists in weaving, like ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
Emerson's Essays
mobi |eng | | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]

* * * NATURE[469] The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with ...
( Category: United States May 29,2015 )
Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Jamaica Kincaid

Notes and Comment A letter from a young woman we know: When I decided that the place I was living in was too small for me, I told everyone that ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American May 27,2015 )

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