Literary
epub |eng | 1999-10-05 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

Disarmingly, Philos cut it out, then and there; his sharp eyes softened and in complete sincerity, he apologized. “I’m previous,” he added. “My turn comes after you’ve seen the rest ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-14 | Author:Gertrude Stein [Stein, Gertrude]

FINIS THE GENTLE LENA Lena was patient, gentle, sweet and german. She had been a servant for four years and had liked it very well. Lena had been brought from ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Emile Zola [Zola, Emile]

CHAPTER XX In the morning, Laurent and Therese, awoke in their respective rooms, with the same feeling of profound joy in their hearts: both said to themselves that their last ...
( Category: French March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Guy De Maupassant [Maupassant, Guy de]

CHAPTER X RETRIBUTION The following days were very sad and dreary, as they always are when there has been a death in the house. And, in addition, Jeanne was crushed ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 25,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Xiaolu Guo [Guo, Xiaolu]

In the lift, Hao An catches a reflection of himself in the metal doors. His cheeks are red. He can't remember blushing before. As soon as the doors open he ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2018 )
epub, mobi |ita | 2004-01-01 | Author:John Haskell [Haskell, John]

3. I found Linda and her two friends, Geoff and Lisa, sitting on a picnic bench in front of a large canvas yurt. Linda stood up when she saw me ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 1985-01-02 | Author:Don Delillo & Mark Osteen [DeLillo, Don & Osteen, Mark]

“Where’s that?” I said. “Iron City. It’s the old German section. Behind the foundry.” “I didn’t know there was a section in Iron City called Germantown.” ‘The Germans are gone, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Don Delillo [Delillo, Don]

PART TWO 3 She had coral brown skin and well-defined cheekbones. There was a beeswax sheen to her lips. She liked to be looked at and made the act of ...
( Category: Literary March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Gabriel Urza [Urza, Gabriel]

24. IKER After we burned the bus in Bermeo I began to keep my distance from Asier and Daniel. I made good on my promise to the American, met him ...
( Category: United States March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

His sister. He has always blamed himself somehow. If he had been more pleasing to Dad he wouldn't have left and Mom wouldn't have gotten drunk and it wouldn't have ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Georges Simenon [Simenon, Georges]

VII 'BOLDNESS does it!' Mr. Hire kept assuring himself. And as he made his way along, he mumbled continually: 'Sorry . . . Sorry . . .' It was raining ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 1977-02-12 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

BUDDY, feeling jilted--especially so when, less than an hour after Conner left, sunlight drained it seemed forever from the windows of the cupola--became unable to bear his solitude, and started ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-24 | Author:Udall, Brady [Udall, Brady]

THE ELDERS I SHAMBLED ALONG the gravel road, limping stiffly and moaning like a sad, disoriented swamp monster risen from the muck. I was encased in a thick crust of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Marylu Tyndall [Tyndall, Marylu]

Chapter 21 “Where is he, Mr. Whipple?” Juliana glared at the pretentious butler. “I insist you tell me at once.” She had searched the entire house for Lord Munthrope—except for ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 24,2018 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1994-12-01 | Author:Jean Raspail [Raspail, Jean]

Twenty-eight At three in the afternoon, on Good Friday, the Last Chance Armada passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, and into the waters of the Mediterranean. The moment the coast ...
( Category: Contemporary March 24,2018 )