Classics
epub |eng | 2018-04-25 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE SINISTER SUMMER There was a horror in the house that summer. It came with them and settled itself over the place like a sombre pall, pervasive through the lower ...
( Category: Classics March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Johnson

VIII ~ ON THE DAY FOLLOWING OUR night at the “Club” we slept until late in the afternoon; so late that beginning search for work was entirely out of the ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

IX Table of Contents The Countess of Rocksbier sat at the head of the table alone with Jacob. Fed upon champagne and spices for at least two centuries (four, if ...
( Category: Classics March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-14 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

“No one cares about us but ourselves, Anthony,” she said one day. “It’d be ridiculous for me to go about pretending I felt any obligations toward the world, and as ...
( Category: Classics March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-26 | Author:Robert Chalmers

CHAPTER 20 The longer he spent in Bedford, the more Daniel became fascinated by Laura’s unusual brother. Paul had left school at sixteen, gone straight to work at the hospital, ...
( Category: Classics March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-16 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR After dark on Saturday night one could stand on the first tee of the golf-course and see the country-club windows as a yellow expanse over a ...
( Category: Short Stories March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-19 | Author:SHERWOOD ANDERSON [ANDERSON, SHERWOOD]

Several years after the death of her husband, Virginia Richmond had become alarmed at the growing demands upon her income and had set herself to the task of increasing it. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]

I was roused from this fit of luxurious meditation by a shout from my little travelling companions. They had been looking out of the coach-windows for the last few miles, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

Two Table of Contents Now that we have given one guinea towards rebuilding a college we must consider whether there is not more that we can do to help you ...
( Category: Essays March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:Franz Kafka

III Gregor’s serious injury, from which he suffered for over a month (since no one had the nerve to remove the apple, it stayed lodged in his flesh as a ...
( Category: German March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Virginia Woolf

4 Ancestors MRS VALLANCE, AS she replied to Jack Renshaw who had made that rather silly remark of his about not liking to watch cricket matches, wished that she could ...
( Category: Short Stories March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Willa Cather [Cather, Willa]

#xa0; IX On Sunday afternoon, a month after Carl Linstrum's arrival, he rode with Emil up into the French country to attend a Catholic fair. He sat for most of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

THE ASPERN PAPERS I I HAD TAKEN Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole ...
( Category: Ghosts March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

In some such cool hope he descended the marble steps, disturbing faintly the sleep of two silky Russian wolfhounds at the bottom, and set off along a walk of white ...
( Category: Short Stories March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Three Thanksgivings Andrew’s letter and Jean’s letter were in Mrs. Morrison’s lap. She had read them both, and sat looking at them with a varying sort of smile, now motherly ...
( Category: Short Stories March 17,2020 )