Anthologies
epub |eng | 2009-04-07 | Author:Ivan Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan]

XL The play lasted over an hour longer, but Maria Nikolaevna and Sanin soon gave up looking at the stage. A conversation sprang up between them again, and went on ...
( Category: Anthologies May 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Daniel H. Wilson [Wilson, Daniel H.]

They collected Nero and the corpse from a sick bay several levels down from the freezer chamber. The corpse was already bagged, a silver-wrapped mummy on a medical trolley. Rather ...
( Category: Parodies May 17,2014 )
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 )
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 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Koji Suzuki

9 November 1990 Every cell in his body was reliving the touch of Sadako's skin. This wasn't like a mental recollection: it felt as if the memory were engraved in ...
( Category: Short Stories May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-21 | Author:Karin Tidbeck

Cloudberry Jam I made you in a tin can. It was one of the unlabelled mystery cans the charity in Åre village handed out. Most of the time it would ...
( Category: Alien Invasion May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-13 | Author:Karen Joy Fowler

Private Grave 9 Every week Ferhid takes our trash out and buries it. Last week's included chicken bones, orange peels, a tin that cherries had come in and another for ...
( Category: Short Stories May 8,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link

The boy was able to reach the coastal road, where he borrowed a very nervous horse. He rode hard for town and help. He rode right into the sheriff and ...
( Category: Anthologies May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-29 | Author:Kate Atkinson

“Fielding!” “Christ, Flavia, you’ll give someone a heart attack sneaking up like that.” Flavia looked at him with distaste. “Have you written that Jemima Bates review yet?” “Almost finished.” “You ...
( Category: Short Stories May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-23 | Author:Paula Guran

I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land ...
( Category: Anthologies May 7,2014 )