Short Stories & Anthologies
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-11-12 | Author:Zadie Smith [Smith, Zadie]

2. NATURE’S WORK OF ART September 18, 2005, marks the centenary of the birth of Greta Garbo, an icon both resonant and remote to us. It feels a perilous centenary. ...
( Category: British & Irish May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla [Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla]

Then they were working on him, and he was carted off again, and again he was surrounded by green trees, but this time he was woken by a noise: his ...
( Category: Short Stories May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

June 22 That was written on Saturday evening, it is now Sunday afternoon; I am to see Werfel and others, and have to meet my parents at the station at ...
( Category: Letters May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-01 | Author:Robert Coover [Coover, Robert]

7 Martin worked late in the office, clearing up the things that needed to be done before the next day, routine matters, yet part of the uninterrupted necessity that governed ...
( Category: Short Stories May 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-21 | Author:HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL [HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL]

( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Welty, Eudora [Welty, Eudora]

The man called Sobby did not oppose an invitation to confess. He stood erect and turning his head about a little, and almost smiled at all the men who had ...
( Category: Anthologies May 14,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Lauren Miller [Miller, Lauren]

Your task is to connect these nine dots. You must use straight, continuous lines. You may not lift your finger once you have begun. You may not retrace a line ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction May 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-23 | Author:Thomson, June [Thomson, June]

THE CASE OF THE FRIESLAND OUTRAGE I It was, I recall, late one stormy evening in November 1894, some months after Sherlock Holmes’ miraculous return from death at the hands ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:June Thomson [Thomson, June]

2 There are several references to Sherlock Holmes’ encyclopedia, sometimes referred to as his ‘commonplace book’. In the ‘Adventure of the Sussex Vampire’, Dr Watson speaks of it as ‘the ...
( Category: Short Stories May 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

45. On the next day the Romans covered their advance more effectively, and when the Parthians attacked they met with a severe shock. They rode up expecting to have nothing ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-02-22 | Author:Plutarch

26. So for the time being the assembly was adjourned. When the day came for voting on the law, Pompey went quietly out of the city into the country. There ...
( Category: Rome May 13,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-07 | Author:Colm Tóibín [Tóibín, Colm]

Over supper, while Nuria was upstairs, having taken the children to bed, and there was a strained silence at the table, Carme mentioned that she thought she might drive into ...
( Category: Short Stories May 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-10-26 | Author:Kay Hooper;Iris Johansen;Fayrene Preston

"Why? All I was doing was sipping scotch." "No, you were—" She stopped, realizing she had never told him about the mirror, and now certainly wasn't the time. "You were ...
( Category: Anthologies May 10,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Otto Penzler

In his home that evening the tree was greeted with a mixture of joy and derision. “As if I ’adn’t enough to clear up yesterday and the day before,” his ...
( Category: Holidays May 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-08-31 | Author:Garth Stein

EVAN WORKS HARD for the next few days. Not hard at his job, hard at Dean. He tries to entertain Dean as thoroughly as possible. Nary a moment passes without ...
( Category: Humorous May 10,2014 )