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Pick-up by Charles Willeford
epub, mobi |eng | 1990-10-03 | Author:Charles Willeford [Willeford, Charles]

( Category: Hard-Boiled June 8,2017 )
Jailbird: a novel by Kurt Vonnegut
epub |eng | 1979-01-15 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

The dirt in the Arapahoe lobby might not have been so obvious, if somebody had not started to do something about it and then stopped. There was a tall stepladder ...
( Category: Classics June 7,2017 )
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Keyes [Keyes, Daniel]

PROGRESS REPORT 14 June 15—Our escape hit the papers yesterday, and the tabloids had a field day. On the second page of the Daily Press there was an old picture ...
( Category: Short Stories June 7,2017 )
The Portable Mark Twain by Mark Twain & Tom Quirk
epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Mark Twain & Tom Quirk [Twain, Mark & Quirk, Tom]

CHAPTER XXI It was after sun-up, now, but we went right on, and didn’t tie up. The king and the duke turned out, by-and-by, looking pretty rusty; but after they’d ...
( Category: Anthologies June 7,2017 )
Moby-Dick or, The whale
epub |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER 71 The Jeroboam’s Story Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock. By and ...
( Category: Sea Stories June 7,2017 )
I'd Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald & Anne Margaret Daniel
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald & Anne Margaret Daniel

FSF as a Confederate officer in his play [The] Coward, 1913. Dentist Appointment The buggy progressed at a tired trot and its two occupants, up since dawn, were as weary ...
( Category: Short Stories May 21,2017 )
Another Country (Vintage International) by James Baldwin
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

2 Eight days later, Eric was in New York, with Yves’ last words still ringing in his ears, and his touch and his smell all over his body. And Yves’ ...
( Category: African American March 28,2017 )
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:James Baldwin [Baldwin, James]

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon “YOU ARE FULL of nightmares,” Harriet tells me. She is in her dressing gown and has cream all over her face. She and my ...
( Category: Short Stories March 28,2017 )
Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-11-17 | Author:Franz Kafka

VI THE ROBINSON AFFAIR ___________ Just then someone tapped him on the shoulder. Thinking that it must of course be a guest, Karl quickly put the apple in his pocket ...
( Category: German March 15,2017 )
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories by Michael Sims
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Michael Sims [Sims, Michael]

Anonymous In the decades following the 1851 appearance of Charles Dickens’s article “On Duty with Inspector Field,” both real and fictional police detectives became common. Detective fiction grew out of, ...
( Category: Anthologies February 27,2017 )
Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Nikolai Gogol [Gogol, Nikolai]

* The byname of the Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst (1590–1656). 7 Noise and commotion filled the Zaporozhian camp. At first nobody could explain how it had come to pass ...
( Category: Short Stories February 26,2017 )
Little Apples by Anton Chekhov
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Anton Chekhov

THE VAUDEVILLIAN Ivan Akimovich Sparrov-Falkonov, a vaudevillian, thrust his hands into the pockets of his wide trousers, turned to face the window, and fixed his languid eyes on the house ...
( Category: Short Stories February 24,2017 )
The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March
epub |eng | 2013-04-07 | Author:Jenny March

THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES The expedition of the Seven against Thebes was one of the great mythological campaigns of the ancient world, by no means as large as the expedition ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology September 30,2016 )
PICK-UP by Charles Willeford
mobi |eng | 2011-01-27 | Author:Charles Willeford

12. The Dregs I didn't sleep all night. I sat in the chair by the dark window with the lights out while Helen slept. I didn't try to think about ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled July 18,2016 )
Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY IN THE FALL THE WAR WAS ALWAYS there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the ...
( Category: Classics June 27,2016 )

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