epub |eng | 2015-03-25 | Author:Malcolm Bradbury

8 WHEN HENRY BABBACOMBE made his second arrival at the great glass tower that housed Eldorado Television, he did not, it has to be admitted, cut nearly as much of ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

* * * 1 The poet Gavril Derzhavin is said to have blessed the sixteen-year-old Pushkin in 1815. BOOKS BY ANTON CHEKHOV THE COMPLETE SHORT NOVELS Anton Chekhov, widely hailed ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:James King

PART THREE CRIMES Chapter Sixteen The flight home is six hours. My patience will not be taxed. I assure myself it is a piece of cake. In-flight movies, a short ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Charles Dickinson

“If the worst happens—” Muff Greene said. “What’s the worst?” “We can’t get back control of the presses,” Muff Greene said. “Or they damage them in some way. Can we ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Tomas Gonzalez [Tomas Gonzalez]

20 THE SOMMELIER uncorked the bottle and poured a little into the glass. Fernando, the bank manager, sniffed the bouquet—he had already sniffed the cork—and said it was lovely. After ...

epub |eng | | Author:Iris Smyles

Dinner with Friends She’d had food in her teeth. After he told her he needed time, she’d smiled over her plate to make it easy for him. And she’d had ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-14 | Author:Nandita Dinesh [Dinesh, Nandita]

HOW IT EVOLVED, AND DEVELOPED, AND GREW A GUIDE TO CURFEW TIMEPASS THE GLAZE This is the best of all the strategies that I have come up with to make ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tamas Dobozy

* * * Sargis taught Elek how to read and do research, in Hungarian and English; how to manipulate an argument; how to write when you had nothing to say; ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Natasa Dragnic [Dragnic, Natasa]

Chapter 17 Opening night. Dora does facial exercises. She stands at the window and loosens up her jaw. She makes noises. Nobody bothers her. Everyone’s caught up in their own ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Plumbing THE OLD PLUMBER bends forward tenderly, in the dusk of the cellar of my newly acquired house, to show me a precious, antique joint. “They haven’t done them like ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Nikita Lalwani [Lalwani, Nikita]

Nights in white satin, Never reaching the end. Letters I’ve written, Never meaning to send. RAY: I feel like I’m going to pass out. [He grabs her and throws her ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Ethel Wilson [Wilson, Ethel]

TRUTH AND MRS. FORRESTER I “I don’t object to truth being stranger than fiction,” said Mrs. Forrester to Laura who was young and dark and beautiful and sitting in the ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Jack Butler

The Stuff in Eleanor Roosevelt’s Bottom Dresser Drawer Top layer, left-hand side: seven pair of white cotton panties, ironed and folded. Top layer, right-hand side: one pair of nylon hose, ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Rea Keech

28 Trouble in the blogosphere Through Thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. —Psalm 44.5 Anthony sat ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Carnahan [Carnahan, Matthew]

THIRTEEN FOR THE MOST part, banality reigns at the circus. Being in almost any job at the circus is like playing goalie: long periods of sheer boredom interrupted by a ...