Literary
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Geoff Dyer [Dyer, Geoff]

I got to my feet uncertainly, like a newborn foal. The other tourists had gone. I was alone on the far bank of the Ganges. I checked that the boatman ...
( Category: Psychological September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Open Secrets started eating the crackers herself but she shouldn't have—a couple of bites and she wanted to puke. She took two more pills and went back upstairs. The windows ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Chris Adrian [Adrian, Chris]

In March of 1870, Will and Gob watched as the first caisson for the great bridge was launched into the East River from a Brooklyn shipyard. Gob was fascinated by ...
( Category: Historical September 29,2014 )
epub, pdf, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Gary Shteyngart [Shteyngart, Gary]

THE JOY. VLADIMIR lay on his stomach in his little blond-wood boudoir, meditating on this fabled venue and his chance to impress the crowd with his own verse, to stamp ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Tessa Hadley [Hadley, Tessa]

II Cora, three years ago, on the train from Cardiff to Paddington. It was a few weeks since she’d run away from the fertility clinic, almost six months since her ...
( Category: Single Women September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Franzen [Franzen, Jonathan]

Thanks to Aslan®—and to young Dr. Hibbard, an outstanding, high-caliber young man—Enid was having her first solid night’s sleep in many months. There were a thousand things she wanted from ...
( Category: Contemporary September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Alice Hoffman [Hoffman, Alice]

Dreamland FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, THE FIELDS IN this part of Maryland were yellow, burned and discolored by a season of unusual heat, but now, in the first week of August, ...
( Category: Family Saga September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2004-06-08 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

light recording to the relevant stage Four or ‘Paradoxical’ interval just prior to (one would presume, based on the Sleep specialist’s ‘prolegomenon’ or gloss [physiologically, I myself still remained ‘At ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-22 | Author:Alice Munro [Munro, Alice]

Teenagers at the baseball game, sitting at the top of the bleachers out of the way of the boy’s friends. A couple of inches of bare wood between them, darkness ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

had labored at for me. I remember a red V-necked sweater often worn by her, and a pleated Royal Stewart skirt. Maybe Gloria and Susannah thought of her as the ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-15 | Author:Jan Karon [Karon, Jan]

Twenty-one <Dear Fr T: <Thanx for yr email of five words total. Cynthia's ankle on all prayer chains. Harold and I attended service at Lord's Chapel last Sunday. They baptized ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Alice Munro [Alice Munro]

This is stupidity, this is melodrama, this is guilt. This will not have happened. But such things do happen. Some people founder, they are not helped in time. They are ...
( Category: Short Stories September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0100-12-31 | Author:Evan S. Connell [Evan S. Connell]

59 Suitor When Harriet, who was at times inclined to insubordination, brought in the breakfast tray Mrs. Bridge exclaimed, “For Heaven’s sake! What on earth happened to you?” “Couperin,” said ...
( Category: Literary September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Adam Ross [Ross, Adam]

Sometimes, when Sheppard thought back to that night, he couldn’t distinguish what was real from what wasn’t. For instance, when he remembered the moment he woke to the sound of ...
( Category: Suspense September 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-24 | Author:Nina Revoyr [Revoyr, Nina]

SEVEN On the first day of deer hunting season, my grandfather’s alarm went off at three-thirty. I wasn’t going with him—he didn’t want me out in the woods on opening ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage September 29,2014 )