Literary
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Donohue, Keith [Donohue, Keith]

v. She could not sleep. In the dead of night, Holly prowled like a ghost through the dream house. Earlier that afternoon, while the turkey was in the oven and ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

The next morning, Wednesday, eating breakfast in the kitchen with the paper propped up in front of me—which is routine, of course—I read the account of the Bianca Voss murder. ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1938-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

9 I SAT AND WATCHED and listened and felt cynical. Wolfe rubbed his cheek with the tip of his forefinger, slowly and rhythmically, which meant he was irritated but attentive. ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Harrison, Jim [Harrison, Jim]

Chapter 3 Catherine disliked her neighbor who owned a big ranch to the east. It was the early 1960s and her grandfather had died three years before. Running the farm ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1964-01-06 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

12 Chester was hiding, or rather he had collapsed, beside a clump of bushes only thirty yards from the Knossos gate and across the road from it. He was alternately ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Pullman, Philip [Pullman, Philip]

Mary and Martha One day Jesus and some of his followers were invited to eat with two sisters, one called Mary and the other called Martha. Christ’s informant told him ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1972-01-14 | Author:Jansson, Tove [Jansson, Tove]

The Neighbour A BUSINESSMAN BUILT A HOUSE on Blustergull Rock. At first, no one mentioned it. They had developed a habit, over the years, of not talking about painful things, ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Morrison, Toni [Morrison, Toni]

SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICEMO THERWILLYOUPLAYWITHJANEMOTH ERLAUGHSLAUGHMOTHERLAUGHLA The easiest thing to do would be to build a case out of her foot. That is what she herself did. But to find out the truth ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-11-15 | Author:Roy, Arundhati [Roy, Arundhati]

CHAPTER 8 WELCOME HOME, OUR SOPHIE MOL It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-15 | Author:West, Rebecca [West, Rebecca]

11 WHEN Aunt Lily came in at teatime she did not notice Mamma’s disturbed face, she was so eager to know if there was a letter for her. This was ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Farge, Paul La [Farge, Paul La]

5. Charlie came home on Saturday afternoon with a black eye. With his wheeled bag still standing at attention in the hall, he got on the phone to his editor ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Tepper, Sheri S. [Tepper, Sheri S.]

CHAPTER 10 T he doctor who had drugged Abasio at Nelda’s behest had been returned to his practice and Nelda herself to her songhouse, both by the mercy of Old ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Platonov, Andrey [Platonov, Andrey]

Liquidating the kulaks into the distance86 brought Zhachev no calm; he even felt worse, though it was not clear why. For a long time he observed how the raft floated ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Waters, Sarah [Waters, Sarah]

I found myself recalling that sigh a day or two later, as I was making my arrangements for the district hospital dance. The dance was an annual event, meant as ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1986-01-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

15 He heard the Bugatti start and the noise came as a surprise and an intrusion because there was no motor noise in the country where he was living. He ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )