Anthologies
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

A Wagner Matinée I RECEIVED one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined note-paper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and ...
( Category: Victorian August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:John Hersey

Forester’s LANGUR caused a bit of a flurry when he stole a RANG that Drum had made, but Forester sounded very firm, saying it was a long-tailed monkey with bushy ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:John Hersey

* * * — IN ONE day we passed the first two of the twelve peaks of Witches’ Mountain, and we were deep in the gorge. The water level was ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-03 | Author:H G Wells [Wells, H G]

§3 Everyone seemed to understand. Nothing was said, nothing was explained; the merest touch of the eyes sufficed. As they clustered in the castle gateway, Coote, Kipps remembered afterwards, laid ...
( Category: Satire August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-09 | Author:H G Wells [Wells, H G]

( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:Mark Anthony Jarman [Jarman, Mark Anthony]

Our illegal aliens have escaped the future, left the flat desert, found water like a dowser, like me, found a beach in Italy, found the curve of Eve’s breast. Her ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:Peter S Beagle (ed) [Beagle, Peter S]

STAMPEDE OF LIGHT Marina Fitch I DON'T KNOW WHEN I stopped believing I would live forever. “Open a child’s mind and heart to the world, and you achieve immortality,” my ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Chandra Manning [Manning, Chandra]

“Rising step by step to the summit of liberty and equal rights” Black Union soldiers knew with perfect clarity that breaking slavery’s chain meant inaugurating a freedom defined by basic ...
( Category: Letters August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Atef Alshaer

Settlement Here a tree blossomed Here a sparrow wandered Here a violin was lost to nostalgia Here a star loved a little girl Here a nightingale stole fruit! Here a ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-21 | Author:Henrik Ibsen

SCENE 3 Low, treeless hills near the mountain plateau; peaks in the distance. There are long shadows; it is late in the day. PEER [enters, running, and halts on the ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:William Trevor

13 It was a dreaming season in London, that long warm summer. In a magistrates’ court a man who had been charged with the theft of spoons from Woolworth’s claimed ...
( Category: European August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 1985-07-27 | Author:Terry Carr (ed)

11. You are now in Area Two. There is no need for great haste in moving on to Area Three. You may lie down and rest for several minutes. Perhaps ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop [Aesop]

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Bentley Little [Little, Bentley]

GUESTROOM: M. N/Smoker. N/Drugs. N/Parties. Clean, $350 mth. Mike. 1443 Sherwood #7. He looked up at the address on the side of the apartment building. This was it. 1443 Sherwood. ...
( Category: Short Stories August 3,2019 )