Literary
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Samatar, Sofia [Samatar, Sofia]

If so, then he is not only a parricide. He is not only guilty of hanging my father from a tree. He is guilty of killing Vars and all his ...
( Category: Fantasy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Dick, Philip K. [Dick, Philip K.]

9 Wordsworth’s ‘Ode’ carries the sub-title: ‘Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.’ In Fat’s case, the ‘intimations of immortality’ were based on recollections of a future life. In ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1886-02-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XXV They passed through two or three small, short streets, which, with their little wooden houses, with still more wooden door-yards, looked as if they had been constructed by the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Sorokin, Vladimir [Sorokin, Vladimir]

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vladimir Sorokin is the author of eleven novels, including Day of the Oprichnik (FSG, 2011), Ice Trilogy, and The Queue; thirteen plays; and numerous short ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-08 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

24 There was very little work for Walter in the office that week, because Dick Jensen had already taken over Walter’s tasks in anticipation of his six weeks’ leave. Walter ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXIV. A Rival Magician. MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-02 | Author:Kubin, Alfred [Kubin, Alfred]

Chapter 5: The Outer Settlement I Elaborate, jagged gables, thatched roofs! It was a little village I was entering. Low wooden cottages of fanciful shape, tiny domed buildings, cylindrical tents. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1949-01-15 | Author:Michener, James A. [Michener, James A.]

Those lines were particularly disturbing because in David’s life they applied to no one person. His heart simply did not leap up when he beheld Marcia. She was a fine ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Manning, Olivia [Manning, Olivia]

17 Next morning the gaiety was gone and only a few peasants wandered about the square. Bella, as she had promised, rang Harriet and described how the previous night the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1929-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

8 A LITTLE AFTER midnight it began to rain, a dull steady dripping rain which never ceased. The sun rose, but not into sight. Grey banked clouds slowly appeared, and ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-02-01 | Author:Homer [Homer]

BOOK XII The Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and the Cattle of the Sun After our ship had left the current of the Ocean-stream and come into the waters of the open ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1955-01-14 | Author:Huxley, Aldous [Huxley, Aldous]

“But the lineaments of gratified desire are also the lineaments of desirability, the lineaments of the promise of future satisfactions. God, how frantically I desired her! And how passionately, from ...
( Category: Philosophy November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-07 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

CHAPTER 2 HAVING sent out invitations by telephone from the airport Doctor Plarr waited for his two guests on the terrace of the Nacional. On a sheet of hotel notepaper ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-21 | Author:McEwan, Ian [McEwan, Ian]

Fourteen Leonard returned home for Christmas, having failed to persuade Maria to accompany him. She thought that a divorced older woman, a German, to whom Leonard was not even engaged ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-11-19 | Author:George, Elizabeth [George, Elizabeth]

Lynley made the drive to London in fairly good time after paying a visit to the Audi dealership that was working on the car owned by Ian Staines. He'd taken ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )