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My Antonia (B&N) by Cather Willa
epub |eng | 1918-02-01 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

V AFTER LENA CAME TO Black Hawk, I often met her downtown, where she would be matching sewing silk or buying “findings”l for Mrs. Thomas. If I happened to walk ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Martian Chronicles, The by Bradbury Ray
epub |por | 1950-01-16 | Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]

2004-05: THE NAMING OF NAMES They came to the strange blue lands and put their names upon the lands. Here was Hinkston Creek and Lustig Corners and Black River and ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
Farewell to Arms, A by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1929-01-15 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Chapter XXVI I went to the door and looked out. It had stopped raining but there was a mist. “Should we go upstairs?” I asked the priest. “I can only ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
Gentleman: A Novel, The by Leo Forrest
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Leo, Forrest [Leo, Forrest]

‘Of course I do!’ ‘Bosch and Bruegel,’ says Lancaster. ‘Who copied whom?’ ‘What?’ Lizzie is becoming flustered. Lancaster charges on. ‘Who’s Gustave Courbet?’ ‘A painter.’ ‘What did he paint?’ ‘PAINTINGS.’ ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 12,2018 )
Uncle Tom's Cabin (B&N) by Stowe Harriet Beecher
epub |eng | 1852-07-15 | Author:Stowe, Harriet Beecher [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

CHAPTER 19 Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions (Continued) Tom, you needn’t get me the horses. I don’t want to go,” she said. “Why not, Miss Eva?” “These things sink into ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Prince and the Pauper, The (B&N) by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 1881-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

“I AM EDWARD, KING OF ENGLAND” “I thank you, my good people.” This unexpected result threw the company into convulsions of merriment. When something like quiet was presently come again, ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Bell Jar, The by Plath Sylvia
epub |eng | 1963-01-07 | Author:Plath, Sylvia [Plath, Sylvia]

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.... The thick book ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
House Divided, A by Buck Pearl S
epub |eng | 1935-01-01 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

III EVEN AS YUAN HAD LOVED and hated his father in his childhood, so now he left that foreign country loving and hating it. He could not but love it, ...
( Category: Contemporary November 12,2018 )
Beautiful and Damned, The (B&N) by Fitzgerald F. Scott
epub |eng | 1922-01-01 | Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

One day early in July Anthony, returned from an afternoon in New York, called up-stairs to Gloria. Receiving no answer he guessed she was asleep and so went into the ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Wings of the Dove (B&N) by James Henry
epub |eng | 1902-01-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

—III— He was really, notwithstanding, to hear more from her of what she saw; and the very next occasion had for him still other surprises than that. He received from ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Reverberator, The by James Henry
epub |eng | 1888-01-23 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

VIII WHEN, ON COMING HOME THE EVENING AFTER his father had made the acquaintance of the Dossons, Gaston went into the room in which the old man habitually sat, Mr. ...
( Category: Humor November 12,2018 )
Bonesetter's Daughter, The by Tan Amy
epub |eng | 2001-02-28 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

One day-I remember this was sometime before Spring Festival-Old Cook came back from the market and said big news was flying through Immortal Heart. Chang the coffinmaker had become famous ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
O Pioneers! (B&N) by Cather Willa
epub |eng | 1913-01-01 | Author:Cather, Willa [Cather, Willa]

VII MARIE’S FATHER, ALBERT TOVESKY, was one of the more intelligent Bohemians who came West in the early seventies. He settled in Omaha and became a leader and adviser among ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Zama by Benedetto Antonio Di
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Benedetto, Antonio Di [Benedetto, Antonio Di]

1794 I WAS laboriously making my way back to the idea of a divine creator. A spirit grounded upon nothing, able to establish laws of equilibrium, gravity, and motion. But ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Sun Also Rises, The by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1926-01-15 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

“I say. You know this does utilize well.” Bill slapped him on the back. “Good old Harris.” “I say. You know my name isn’t really Harris. It’s Wilson Harris. All ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )

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