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Old Man and the Sea, The by Hemingway Ernest
epub |eng | 1952-01-25 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Eighth Day, The by Wilder Thornton
epub |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Wilder, Thornton [Wilder, Thornton]

There was a knock at the door. The Maestro was called to the telephone. Roger turned his back on the objects and went to the window—the lights of the city. ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Age of Innocence, The (B&N) by Wharton Edith
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

20 “OF COURSE WE MUST dine with Mrs. Carfry, dearest,” Archer said; and his wife looked at him with an anxious frown across the monumental Britannia ware of their lodging-house ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Wonderland by Oates Joyce Carol
epub |eng | 1971-01-31 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

5 And your family is … Scattered. Your entire family is scattered …? My parents are dead. I’m very sorry to hear that. An automobile accident. It happened a long ...
( Category: Literary November 11,2018 )
Scarlet Letter (B&N) by Hawthorne Nathaniel
epub |eng | 1850-01-01 | Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

X The Leech and His Patient Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly, though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (B&N) by Twain Mark
epub |eng | 1885-01-27 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER 22 They swarmed up the street towards Sherburn’s house, a-whooping and yelling and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
Portrait of a Lady, The (B&N) by James Henry
epub |eng | 1881-01-01 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XXVII I may not attempt to report in its fulness our young woman’s response to the deep appeal of Rome, to analyse her feelings as she trod the pavement of ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2018 )
House Not Meant to Stand, A by Williams Tennessee
epub |eng | 1982-01-23 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

ACT TWO There is no passage of time. STACEY [in a deep Southern accent]: Sounded like a disturbance goin’ on down here. EMERSON: Yes, a disturbance, now over. Come on ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
epub |eng | 2018-11-08 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

( Category: Arts & Literature November 9,2018 )
Darwin's Ghosts by Ariel Dorfman
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:Ariel Dorfman

SIX “There’s one thing that’s truly terrifying in this world and that’s that everyone has his reasons.” —Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game Of course it was her. Of ...
( Category: United States November 9,2018 )
The Naked Woman by Armonía Somers
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Armonía Somers

“Look, look over there!” exclaimed the wife of the crime novel aficionado, standing up in the crowd having lunch outside. Her eyes and mouth were open as wide as they ...
( Category: United States November 8,2018 )
Wolves of Eden by Kevin McCarthy
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Kevin McCarthy

25 THE FT. LARAMIE PEACE TALKS & 1ST MEETING WITH MR. LO (AS WE DO CALL THE INDIANS) I WILL TAKE UP THE PEN AGAIN SIR BECAUSE I CANNOT sleep ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 8,2018 )
The William H. Gass Reader by William H. Gass
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:William H. Gass

This swing can be corralled, as Gertrude does in the case of her overly famous tag: Civilization begins with a rose. These chaplets retain the plainest syntax, but beneath the ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 7,2018 )
Heartless by Al-Saadiq Banks
epub |eng | 2016-10-01 | Author:Al-Saadiq Banks

43 Irvington, New Jersey The Next Afternoon Storm sits in the stylist’s chair, getting a new weave. Last night’s episode at Pleasure Garden destroyed her hairdo. She’s done away with ...
( Category: United States November 7,2018 )
Winning Her Forever by Harmony Evans
epub |eng | 2018-06-06 | Author:Harmony Evans

Chapter 8 Sonya looked in the full-length mirror and held up a purple-and-black-leopard-spotted bra and panty set over her gray yoga pants and white tank top. She compared it with ...
( Category: United States November 7,2018 )

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