epub |eng | 2009-06-03 | Author:Daniel Kharms [KHARMS, DANIIL]

The Rundadar family lived in a house on the quiet river Svirechka. The father of the Rundadars, Platon Ilyich, loved knowledge of lofty matters: Mathematics, Tripartite Philosophy, the Geography of ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-15 | Author:Sindiwe Magona

A Peaceful Exit Mondli was thirty-nine years old; the furthest thing on his mind, death. Especially his own. Why, only a month before his last birthday, less than six months ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

About the Author Anton Chekhov was a late nineteenth-century Russian physician turned author and playwright. While studying at medical school, Chekhov took up writing as a source of income to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Goli Taraghi

TEN YEARS HAVE passed since I last saw Amina. The doorbell rings. It isn’t the children’s restless and persistent ringing. It is a stranger’s hesitant finger on the doorbell. Someone ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:HEBE UHART [UHART, HEBE]

epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Marisa Matarazzo

KELLY GREEN develops a cough. A very moist and rumbling cough. So loud I can hear it echo across the field. Sounds like the sputtering chug of a broken boat ...

epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Jonathan Tel [Tel, Jonathan]

LOVE! DUTY! HUMANITY! VIRTUE! THE REAL STORY began a few years after the story I’m about to tell you. I’d been born on the commune, and knew nowhere else. This ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Félix J. Palma [Palma, Félix J.]

Meows For Juan Bonilla, who endured the first part of this story. I can’t see it from the terrace, so I don’t know how big it is, or what color. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nikolai Gogol

Nevsky Prospect THERE IS NOTHING FINER than Nevsky Prospect, not in Petersburg anyway: it is the making of the city. What splendour does it lack, that fairest of our city ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-27 | Author:David McGlynn

PART II THE EYES TO SEE THE GUESTS TWIRLED beneath a cosmos of artificial stars: the oak trees in my grandparents’ backyard wrapped in miniature white lights. Larger bulbs, like ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Isabelle de Charriere [de Charrière, Isabelle]

Letter XII. The Vicomte des Fossés to Germaine. From a vile inn, April 25, 1793 Will this letter escape the Argus-eyed surveillance? I do hope so. Sometimes they sleep and ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Jay McInerney [McInerney, Jay]

JayMc​Inerney.​com BOOKS BY JAY MCINERNEY BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kevin Clouther [Clouther, Kevin]

T-BONE CAPONE LOVES THE LADY ACE In Islamorada the sky was blue and cloudless—perfect, except that neither of us could see the sun from the car, which Angela said was ...

epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Greg Sanders [Sanders, Greg]

The Sweater Anna sat in the darkest corner of the park in the middle of the night, knitting. Even though she could see cars going down the lighted avenue and ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Alaa Al Aswany

Hisham worked as he had never worked before. He was on the job every day from seven in the morning to midnight, and on operation days (Sundays and Wednesdays) he ...