Literary
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Aickman, Robert [Aickman, Robert]

RAVISSANTE I had an acquaintance who had begun, before I knew him, as a painter but who took to ‘compiling and editing’ those costly, glossy books about art which are ...
( Category: Literary April 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

Ray Bradbury, age three, outside his boyhood home at 11 South Saint James Street, Waukegan, Illinois, summer 1924. Ray standing on his grandparents’ lawn on the corner of Saint James ...
( Category: Authors April 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Sheila Heti [Heti, Sheila]

I don’t want 00:00:00 anymore. It is banal. Yet in the pitch-perfect moments of life, I say to myself that I have followed my rules wisely, and that the surge ...
( Category: Women's Friendship Fiction April 21,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Alberto Moravia

12 THE DAY ARRIVED when we were to leave for Capri. Battista had decided to accompany us to the island, to do us the honors of his house, as he ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory April 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alberto Moravia

6 CECILIA, AS I think I have made clear, was not talkative, in fact her natural inclination was to keep silence; but even when she spoke she managed to be ...
( Category: Contemporary April 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Alberto Moravia [Moravia, Alberto]

11 I TOLD her that I wanted to climb up to the threshing-floor and look at the immensely wide view that could be obtained from there; she agreed and, still ...
( Category: Literary April 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-17 | Author:Amy Tan [Tan, Amy]

HERE IS how it actually happened. At nine-thirty in the morning, my friends had finished visiting the weaving mill. They were standing on the jetty, ready to climb into the ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary April 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Amy Tan

That same morning, Hulan and I went into town. I put on my long green coat and everyday shoes, because it was three or four li to get to the ...
( Category: Family Saga April 20,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Davis, Lydia [Davis, Lydia]

There aren’t that many of us in the car, though more than I would have expected on this particular day. Of course I think they’re all on their way to ...
( Category: Short Stories April 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Andrea Camilleri [Camilleri, Andrea]

“Greetings to all,” he said, entering the Circolo dei Nobili. “What’s new?” After the riot of greetings, exclamations of delight, and embraces, Barone Uccello informed his friend of the only ...
( Category: Humorous April 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-08 | Author:Patrick Dennis [Dennis, Patrick]

Chapter Eight and My Punctured Romance The time inevitably comes in the Unforgettable Character’s life for the foundling to finish school, find love, and get married. And what did the ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Dennis, Patrick

Next to attending my own wake, I couldn’t think of many things I’d rather do less, but as dreary as Maxl and Hannes were, at least they weren’t actively in ...
( Category: Coming of Age April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Sorokin, Vladimir

CHAIRMAN OF THE DUMA: So, we take power. But what do we do with Russia, Sergei Ivanovich? MINISTER: Saw it up and sell it. CHAIRMAN: To whom? MINISTER: We sell ...
( Category: Satire April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Daphne Du Maurier [Maurier, Daphne Du]

16 November and December passed very swiftly, or so it seemed to me. Usually, as the days shortened and the weather worsened, when there would be little to do outside ...
( Category: Suspense April 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-30 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

10 With them, Joe Fernwright thought, there is not life but merely a synopsis of life. We are a thread that passes through their hands; always in motion, always flowing, ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 19,2014 )