Literary
epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

CAUGHT—In the Bois de Boulogne, early in the morning of the ———— inst. (the morning of the murder), a very large, tawny Ourang-Outang of the Bornese species. The owner (who ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gustave Flaubert

Here there was a break in the lines, as if the old fellow had dropped his pen to dream a little while. “For myself, I am very well, except for ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1985-03-25 | Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

understand that Dr. J uvenal Urbino, in the midst of so many absorbing commitments, still had more than enough time to adore his wife almost as much as he did, ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Freethy, Barbara [Freethy, Barbara]

Andrew jogged down the stairs of his house as his doorbell rang, three impatient times in a row. He finished buttoning up his shirt and ran his fingers through his ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Benjamin Percy

She takes the bed and he takes the floor. The Pendleton blanket over concrete isn’t very comfortable, but that’s not why he can’t sleep. He rarely sleeps. Nights, a dead ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Dennys & Joyce Dennys [Dennys Joyce]

December 15, 1943 MY DEAR ROBERT We have got a kitten. It is called General James Barton, after Brother James. We had to get it because of the mice, which ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Vea, Alfredo [Alfredo, Vea,]

8 the ballet rose “Let’s go up,” said Jesse, who had just caught the syrup, salt, and acid scent of death. The breeze had shifted and carried the horrid odor ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Michael Malone [Malone, Michael]

Chapter 34 Reach for the Sky From under his pillow, Jack slid a silver cigarette lighter, with the engraved initial C. He tumbled it between his fingers. Given his burns, ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2004-07-30 | Author:J. G. Farrell [Farrell, J. G.]

As he went out on to the portico and down the steps the sunlight once again smote him painfully, like a solid substance. Above, at the bedroom window he knew ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1956-01-02 | Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]

Chapter Seven He turned and motioned to the children. Then he glanced at the girl, and caught an expression of surprise, bewilderment, upon her face. ‘There are rather a lot ...
( Category: War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]

He sealed the letter and addressed it. The W.A.A.F. sergeant put her head in at the door as he tossed it into the OUT basket. “Sergeant Phillips is here, sir,” ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Craig Davidson [Davidson, Craig]

The highway runs north. James and I can’t return to the houseboat. I don’t even want to. I’m nearly where I need to be, anyway. Dawn rises over tailback hills. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Reign (T. Styles) [Reign (T. Styles)]

THE EIGHT SECRETARIES OF TOLERANCE A blast of sunshine surrounded the Walter E Washington Convention Center. Although it was winter, the large windows surrounding the facility, made it feel as ...
( Category: Urban March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Andrew Porter [Porter, Andrew]

7 TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. That’s all he needed. And now Brandon is telling him that it wouldn’t be that hard to get it, or at least half of it, if ...
( Category: Urban Life March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Colson Whitehead [Whitehead, Colson]

Part ONE Aspirants to luxury often opt for red and gold, hues long-soaked into their mentalities as the spectra of royalty. There are no kings these days, in these cities. ...
( Category: Urban Life March 26,2014 )