Literary
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Herman Wouk [Wouk, Herman]

Chapter 26. SAM ROTHMORE The telephone woke her. She blinked at her clock; it was half-past nine. “Hello?” she said hoarsely. “Are you dressed? We’re going for an airplane ride.” ...
( Category: Jewish March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-02 | Author:Barbara Pym [Pym, Barbara]

XIII. Edward and Mother Give a Tea Party ‘Well, Mother, who do you think will be the first to arrive?’ said Edward Killigrew, pacing eagerly about the drawing-room. ‘I think ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1996-03-25 | Author:Anne Michaels [Michaels, Anne]

There’s the decrescendo in the ninth bar, and then from pianissimo to piano so quickly, but not quite as soft as the diminuendo in the sixteenth bar— Bella sits at ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Nersesian, Arthur [Nersesian, Arthur]

NINE As I dashed out of the front door, I figured that I had a thirty-minute run ahead of me. Turning back before the front door swung shut, I raced ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Thomas Bernhard [Bernhard, Thomas]

Then set off on my journey. Back to my room at the hostel, with no light and no sunshine. I’ll fix myself something to eat, look at my watch, lie ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn]

Miss Pole, then, had seen the conjuror - the real, live conjuror! and numerous were the questions we all asked her. “Had he a beard?” “Was he young, or old?” ...
( Category: Sisters March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-19 | Author:Henry Miller [Miller, Henry]

Jabberwhorl Cronstadt This man, this skull, this music … He lives in the back of a sunken garden, a sort of bosky glade shaded by whiffletrees and spinozas, by deodars ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

On Friday, when he had fairly well given up hoping, a car pulled over to the curb at Al’s Motor Sales, and a young man in tie and shirtsleeves got ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Margot Livesey [Livesey, Margot]

BACK AT THE HOUSE ABIGAIL WAS WANDERING THE KITCHEN IN her nightgown, a confection of white cotton she had bought in a vintage clothing shop. Dara remembered her holding up ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Craig Lancaster [Lancaster, Craig]

By the time we get back to the motel, it’s an onslaught (I love the word “onslaught”) of snow. The flakes are fat and wet, and they cling to the ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Dale Brown [Brown, Dale]

SPRATLY ISLAND, SOUTH CHINA SEA SEVERAL WEEKS LATER The Socialist Republic of Vietnam’s Gepard-class frigate, HQ-013 Cá map, or Shark, was on patrol near the Vietnamese-occupied Spratly Island. The frigate ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2000-10-16 | Author:Rice, Anne [Anne, Rice,]

and you know how this has worried me. Even when she made her family history and sent it off to various scholars, she did not touch upon the occult heritage ...
( Category: Vampires March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Amanda Scott [Scott, Amanda]

10 BATES SHUT THE FRONT door. “Will you or Sir Brian require anything further, Miss Jessica?” he inquired in a carefully even tone. “We require nothing, Bates, except a little ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:David Michie [Michie, David]

There I stayed for the next three days, sleeping away as many hours as I could. I emerged only to attend to the most urgent calls of nature, before returning ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Mary Gordon [Gordon, Mary]

Both of us have things to do the next day that we don't want to do. A visit to the country. A friend who has lived in a foreign city ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 26,2014 )