Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:John Aubrey Anderson [AUBREY ANDERSON, JOHN]

The days passed in peace. Except for trips to the gin and church, Mose and the dog stayed close to Cat Lake. Days became seasons. Cotton was raised, and picked, ...
( Category: Suspense November 11,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:John Updike

The day was a clear one in February, with a chilly breeze. The barn was a relic of the horse-and-buggy era, with several stalls and mangers and a large central ...
( Category: Short Stories November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-30 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Chadwick, Elizabeth]

Mud-streaked and laughing, stripped to his shirt and hose, Hugh avoided the leap of the Welsh youth and in the nick of time tossed the ball to his brother Ralph ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Flann O'Brien

11 WHEN I got to bed later the brother was asleep, no doubt in the anaesthesia of whiskey. In the morning I asked him whether he was serious about the ...
( Category: Satire November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Frederick Busch [Busch, Frederick]

testify WE HAD THE USUAL upstate January thaw so late in the season, it was two days away from March when temperatures went toward twenty, and people new to the ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Kobo Abe [Kobo Abe]

Same day: 12:06 P.M.—Visited Mr. Toyama, the man to whom the person under investigation sold the car he had been using until two days before disappearing. Toyama was not at ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: United States November 11,2014 )
epub | | 2009-09-10 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

Border Trilogy 2 - The Crossing III IT WAS ALL BUT DARK when they rode past the main house and along the drive, past the porticoes with their slender carved ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Gregor von Rezzori

Aunt Paulette reclined her bobbed hair against the seat back and stared up at the ceiling with arched eyebrows. “You have very beautiful throat,” said Uncle Sergei. “Are you tempted ...
( Category: German November 11,2014 )
epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2010-07-20 | Author:Adam Smith

PART VI. OF THE CHARACTER OF VIRTUE. CONSISTING OF THREE SECTIONS.1 INTRODUCTION. When we consider the character of any individual, we naturally view it under two different aspects; first, as ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Herman Melville

CHAPTER LXIV. Stubb’s Supper. Stubb’s whale had been killed some distance from the ship. It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Don Delillo [Delillo, Don]

Keith used to want more of the world than there was time and means to acquire. He didn’t want this anymore, whatever it was he’d wanted, in real terms, real ...
( Category: Specific Topics November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Robinson, Jeremy [Robinson, Jeremy]

He strikes again. This time with both fists. He strikes my chest, knocking the air from my lungs and sending me flying over the extinguished fire. My back slaps against ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:David Mitchell [Mitchell, David]

“IN THE DOMAIN of Hizen,” First Sister Hatsune strokes her forever-shut eyelid as the night wind blows around the shrine, “a ravine climbs northward from the San’yôdo Highway to the ...
( Category: Historical November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-02-11 | Author:Charles Baxter

19 THE ZOO SHOULD HAVE BEEN loud and smelly, with children milling around taunting the big cats for having been caught and caged, their kiddie-mockery accompanied by peanut shells launched ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2014 )