Classics
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

15 It was early in November when the rain came. Every day in the morning Joseph searched the sky, studying the bulky rearing clouds, and again at evening he watched ...
( Category: Classics December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

X-ING A PARAGRAB As it is well known that the “wise men” came “from the East,” and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head ...
( Category: Classics December 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-26 | Author:Shikibu Murasaki [Murasaki, Shikibu]

1 This character does not appear elsewhere in the work. 2 The space was called the Kaedono. 3 The word for “early spring greens,” wakana, gives this chapter its title. ...
( Category: Japanese November 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-08-31 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

It may be that there are people who can translate better than I can, but I am not acquainted with them. So ends the private and public history of the ...
( Category: Anthologies November 14,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:William Gaddis

—Look Jack just, wait give me that pile and watch your . . . —God damned stairs can’t see a God damned, listen. Listen hear that? God damned telephone ringing ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

“I do not know,” he said aloud. “I never had a bone spur.” As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence, the time in the tavern at ...
( Category: Classics October 20,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Unknown]

Footnotes—Four Beasts (*1) Flavius Vospicus says, that the hymn here introduced was sung by the rabble upon the occasion of Aurelian, in the Sarmatic war, having slain, with his own ...
( Category: Classics October 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]

The Steinbecks’ first Los Gatos house, Arroyo del Ajo (Garlic Gulch), where they lived from 1936 through 1938, and where the novelist wrote all of The Grapes of Wrath. [Steinbeck ...
( Category: United States October 19,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Gore Vidal [Vidal, Gore]

Twenty I HAVE TAKEN to writing pieces for the Evening Post under the pseudonym Old Patroon, a very conservative, very angry, very censorious old New Yorker. Mr. Bryant is delighted, ...
( Category: Biographical October 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:MacKinlay Kantor [Kantor, MacKinlay]

XXXVI John Winder stood with Henry Wirz on a sentry platform. John Winder did not see the bears witnessed by Henry Wirz; he saw scum, a marsh under the scum, ...
( Category: Historical October 11,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-06-07 | Author:Ayn Rand

PART II Ideal: The Play Introduction to Ideal: The Play Ideal was written in 1934, at a time when Ayn Rand had cause to be unhappy with the world. We ...
( Category: History & Theory October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-09 | Author:Hans Christian Andersen

W. HEATH ROBINSON Thumbelina receives a pair of wings and is able to fly on her own. 21. “We shall call you Maya!” The renaming signals that Thumbelina has developed ...
( Category: European October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

13 Richard began it. “Why do you like her so much?” It was an evening on which she had broken a date with Richard on the slim chance Carol would ...
( Category: Classics August 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Musil, Robert [Musil, Robert]

It’s Lovely Here There are many people who on their vacations are drawn to famous places. They drink beer in their hotel gardens, and if in addition they happen to ...
( Category: European July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-02 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

March 8th, 1944 Dear Helen, It is all right. About Edwina. Let me describe it to you while the detail is fresh in my mind. Ever since the news of ...
( Category: Historical June 12,2015 )