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The Lady in White by Christian Bobin
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-09-11 | Author:Christian Bobin [Bobin, Christian]

Each of Susan’s journeys left Emily in a fever of words: “[. . .] when you go away. I’ll keep you in a casket—I’ll bury you in the garden—and keep ...
( Category: Literary January 17,2023 )
Time's Betrayal by David Adams Cleveland
epub |eng | | Author:David Adams Cleveland [Cleveland, David Adams]

* * * Nestor had been true to his word. Two days after my father escaped from occupied Greece, into the arms of his Calypso in the Guilford rehabilitation hospital, ...
( Category: Literary January 17,2023 )
The Hwanung Solution by David Middleton
epub |eng | 2017-09-18 | Author:David Middleton

Chapter 17 “You’ve missed a turning,” he told the taxi driver. “What’s that?” the rather chunky taxi driver asked. “We’re too far north. I’ve just seen a sign to the ...
( Category: Literary January 16,2023 )
Househusband by Ad Hudler
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Ad Hudler

LINC’S MEDITERRANEAN STEW SERVES FOUR 3 tablespoons olive oil 5 garlic cloves, minced 4 chicken thighs, skinned 1 pound lean lamb, cubed 1 cup white wine 4 cups chicken stock ...
( Category: Literary January 16,2023 )
The Wound by Laurent Mauvignier
epub |eng | 2014-11-13 | Author:Laurent Mauvignier [Mauvignier, Laurent]

And now, in the night, the cold finally gets to you. Bernard tries to shift position often, his limbs go numb and he tries to hear the men to his ...
( Category: Literary January 15,2023 )
Firewife by Tinling Choong
epub |eng | 2008-04-08 | Author:Tinling Choong

chapter 10 NIN Singapore → Amsterdam I am in 3A, a window seat. Behind me, 4A is a Russell Crowe. I smile at Russell. Russell sits next to an Asian ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2023 )
Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert
epub |eng | 2020-11-17 | Author:Dorothy Lambert

CHAPTER SIXTEEN On New Year’s Day Miss Mellicent spent the afternoon at the Priory and took the opportunity of discussing Jocelyn’s future with the Honourable Augusta, a delicate matter, because ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2023 )
Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

A Kitchen Knife Rachel and Trevor Gilman had been married for almost three years before they got into a house of their own. Till then, they lived with Trevor’s parents. ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2023 )
The Drawing Lesson by Mary E. Martin
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Mary E. Martin [Martin, Mary E.]

TORONTO 2004 CHAPTER 24 Balancing the breakfast tray of pureed egg, buttered toast, and prune juice, Celia Smith tapped on her mother’s bedroom door. The nurse, her face filled with ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2023 )
The Partners by Louis Auchincloss
epub |eng | | Author:Louis Auchincloss

2 Felicia lay awake for an hour beside the sleeping body of her husband. It was a deep sleep, induced by cocktails, shaken by snores. It represented the simpler side ...
( Category: Literary January 14,2023 )
Kindness & Happenstance: A Short Story Collection by T J Bainz
epub |eng | | Author:T J Bainz [Bainz, T J]

2 FOR A FEW DESPERATE, and intensely embarrassing, seconds he stared at that half-chewed, near-swallowed chunk of meat-and-potato pie and watched the steam rising up off it. And then, as ...
( Category: Literary January 13,2023 )
Early Memories by Henry Cabot Lodge
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Henry Cabot Lodge [Lodge, Henry Cabot]

CHAPTER VIII HARVARD: 1867–1871 IF my career at Harvard was singularly devoid of either distinction or interest, it at least came at a very memorable period in the life of ...
( Category: Literary January 12,2023 )
The Half You Don't Know by Peter Cameron
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Peter Cameron [Cameron, Peter]

The Meeting and Greeting Area THE NEW “EDUCATION” Government, in its quest for literacy, has labeled everything. The buses proclaim BUS, the benches BENCH. I was awaiting the arrival of ...
( Category: Literary January 9,2023 )
The Secret History of Modernism by C. K. Stead
epub |eng | 2001-10-18 | Author:C. K. Stead [C. K. Stead]

TEN The Goldstein Story – 2 FRIEDRICH GOLDSTEIN HAD been old enough to be aware that his father was banished from the house among pines on the slopes of Mount ...
( Category: Literary January 9,2023 )
Exile by Ann Ireland
epub |eng | 2002-08-17 | Author:Ann Ireland

12 I POURED OUT A MUGFUL OF RASHID’S coffee, which had been sitting in the pot since six a.m., and took my hangover outside where the sun had finally cracked ...
( Category: Literary January 9,2023 )

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