Literary Fiction
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Heinrich Böll

AFTERWORD: THE HANDS OF OLINA by William T. Vollmann … he had a terrible dream: he was sitting somewhere on a wet, very cold plain and had no legs, no ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-07-21 | Author:Péter Nádas [Nádas, Péter]

He'd begun to understand a lot of things, János said, so many things that he'd almost become a liberal, would you believe that, Ernő? What d'you know! Grandfather said. Can ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Joy Williams [Williams, Joy]

26 Sherwin was eating lunch at one of his favorite neighborhood establishments. The building had been conceived as a bank, but the bank had failed. Now it was a restaurant ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:James James Joyce

V HE drained his third cup of watery tea to the dregs and set to chewing the crusts of fried bread that were scattered near him, staring into the dark ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Agnes Owens

The Collectors Davey came up over the steep, stony track that would lead him to the golf course once he had climbed a fence and crossed a burn. Sometimes he ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Jay Rubin (translator)

NAOKO WAS ON THE SOFA with a book. She had her legs crossed, and she pressed her hand against her temple as she read. Her fingers almost seemed to be ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Guillermo Rosales

In my room, I throw myself back on the bed and fall asleep again. This time I dreamt that the Revolution was over, and that I was returning to Cuba ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Juan Gabriel Vásquez [Vásquez, Juan Gabriel]

* * * — AT THE BEGINNING OF 1905, Pedro León Acosta and his brother Miguel had joined up with the three Ortega brothers, sons of another Conservative family, to ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Otsuichi

Kazari and Yoko 1 If Mom ever decided to kill me, how would she do it? She might just hit me over the head with something hard the way she ...
( Category: Manga Comics & Graphic Novels October 18,2021 )
azw3 |deu | 1911-01-01 | Author:Hanns Heinz Ewers

Chapter Nine Speaks of Alraune’s lovers and what happened to them. THESE were the five men that loved Alraune ten Brinken: Karl Mohnen, Hans Geroldingen, Wolf Gontram, Jakob ten Brinken ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-09-17 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard [Knausgaard, Karl Ove]

JOSTEIN I might not have been the happiest man in the world as I closed the door behind me and hurried along the corridor to the elevator, but it wasn’t ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1985-06-14 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Alfred Birnbaum (translator)

"Do you suppose this marks the deadline?" she asked. "Either that, or it's (4). Meaning, if the program is cancelled at (3), X won't happen. But if for some reason ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-09 | Author:Michael Symmons Roberts & Paul Farley [Roberts, Michael Symmons]

It’s either the fridge, or the red wheelbarrow. Those are the two William Carlos Williams poems everyone knows. Two of the most perfect short poems ever written. They are like ...
( Category: Poetry October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1989-06-14 | Author:J.K. Huysmans [Huysmans, J.K.]

* * * CHAPTER X. One morning Durtal went out to seek the Abbé Plomb. He could not find him in his own house, nor in the cathedral; but at ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:W.N.P. Barbellion [Barbellion, W.N.P.]

June 3. We have made a little nest in the wood and I lead her into it by the hand over the briars and undergrowth as if conducting her to ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )