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Sacrifice, The by Oates Joyce Carol
epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

The Crusade Black girl, white cops, kidnap, rape, assault & left to die. Quickly then it became a poem. An incantation. These few words uttered again, again and again. “There’s ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
Bluest Eye, The by Morrison Toni
epub |eng | 2007-07-24 | Author:Morrison, Toni [Morrison, Toni]

SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICEMO THERWILLYOUPLAYWITHJANEMOTH ERLAUGHSLAUGHMOTHERLAUGHLA The easiest thing to do would be to build a case out of her foot. That is what she herself did. But to find out the truth ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Fountain Overflows, The by West Rebecca
epub |eng | 1957-01-15 | Author:West, Rebecca [West, Rebecca]

11 WHEN Aunt Lily came in at teatime she did not notice Mamma’s disturbed face, she was so eager to know if there was a letter for her. This was ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Garden of Eden, The by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1986-01-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

15 He heard the Bugatti start and the noise came as a surprise and an intrusion because there was no motor noise in the country where he was living. He ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Good Earth, The by Buck Pearl S
epub |eng | 1931-01-23 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

20 AND THUS IT MIGHT have gone forever until all the silver was spent had not that one, Wang Lung’s uncle, returned suddenly without explanation of where he had been ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Tanners, The by Walser Robert
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert]

The weather was growing ever warmer and the earth more resplendent, it was covered with a thick, blossoming carpet of meadows, the fields and pastures were steaming, the forests offered ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
Leaves of Grass (B&N) by Whitman Walt
epub |eng | 1855-01-15 | Author:Whitman, Walt [Whitman, Walt]

But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters, Only hear that approval of hands! hear what a clapping! As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we ...
( Category: Poetry November 11,2018 )
Glass Menagerie, The by Williams Tennessee
epub |eng | 1944-01-15 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

SCENE SIX * * * The light comes up on the fire escape landing. Tom is leaning against the grill, smoking. * * * [Screen image: The high school hero.] ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 11,2018 )
Sister Carrie (B&N) by Dreiser Theodore
epub |eng | 1900-01-01 | Author:Dreiser, Theodore [Dreiser, Theodore]

CHAPTER XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US WE REACH FOR A STAR IT WAS WHEN HE returned from his disturbed stroll about the streets, after receiving the decisive note from McGregor, ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Moonfleet by Falkner John Meade
epub |eng | 1898-04-15 | Author:Falkner, John Meade [Falkner, John Meade]

Chapter 12 A FUNERAL How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can —Browning We stood for a moment holding one another's hands; then ...
( Category: Action & Adventure November 11,2018 )
Hidden Flower, The by Buck Pearl S
epub |eng | 1952-01-20 | Author:Buck, Pearl S. [Buck, Pearl S.]

PART III AT THE AIRPORT IN San Francisco Allen saw her descend and hesitate a moment, as looking from side to side she searched for him. He pressed forward through ...
( Category: United States November 11,2018 )
Jungle, The (B&N) by Sinclair Upton
epub |eng | 1906-02-01 | Author:Sinclair, Upton [Sinclair, Upton]

EIGHTEEN JURGIS DID not get out of the Bridewell quite as soon as he had expected. To his sentence there were added “court costs” of a dollar and a half—he ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Arabian Nights, The (B&N) by Anonymous
epub |eng | 1839-01-01 | Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]

Camaralzaman and Badoura. “When once the Princess Badoura had formed this resolution, in concert with the Princess Haiatalnefous, she spoke to Prince Camaralzaman in private, on the same day, in ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
Collected Stories, The by Singer Isaac Bashevis
epub |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Singer, Isaac Bashevis [Singer, Isaac Bashevis]

At the restaurant, I hardly recognized Liebkind Bendel. Even though he wore a yellow jacket, a red shirt, and a tie with golden dots, his face looked as pale as ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
First Bad Man, The by July Miranda
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:July, Miranda [July, Miranda]

CHAPTER NINE All the women in Clee’s birth class were in their twenties or thirties, except the teacher, Nancy, who was my age. Whenever Nancy referred to what obstetricians were ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )

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