Classics
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1923-11-12 | Author:Jean Toomer

THE END AFTERWORD “Song of the Son”: The Emergence and Passing of Jean Toomer by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In memoriam To Charles T. Davis, beloved ...
( Category: Historical April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

( Category: United States March 23,2015 )
epub |ara | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Blecher [Blecher, Max]

Chapter Six The upper story of the Weber house, which I often visited after Etla Weber died of old age, was like nothing so much as a genuine waxworks. All ...
( Category: Metaphysical & Visionary March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-05 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

2 Yet these were the people—the puppets, the paper dolls; the situation, impasse, morality play, medicine show, whichever you liked best—dropped out of a clear sky into his uncle’s lap ...
( Category: Anthologies March 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-20 | Author:Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XXXIII. Laura soon discovered that there were three distinct aristocracies in Washington. One of these, (nick-named the Antiques,) consisted of cultivated, high-bred old families who looked back with pride ...
( Category: Political March 3,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Gaines, Ernest J. [Gaines, Ernest J.]

8 Later that evening Phillip drove back to St. Adrienne still thinking about Chippo. Tomorrow he would go into Baton Rouge to find him, and Chippo would explain everything to ...
( Category: African American February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Gaines, Ernest J. [Gaines, Ernest J.]

Bloodline 1: I figured it was about time she was coming to work, so I went to the door to look out for her. There she was, pushing the gate ...
( Category: Classics February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Ernest J. Gaines [Gaines, Ernest J.]

30 I didn’t have a girl down the block, but I wasn’t going to sit at that table and watch them play with each other. I wasn’t going to be ...
( Category: African American February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 1951-01-16 | Author:John Hawkes [Hawkes, John]

( Category: Classics February 15,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Alexandre Dumas

Chapter 17: The First Bulb On the following evening, as we have said, Rosa returned with the Bible of Cornelius de Witt. Then began between the master and the pupil ...
( Category: Biographical February 15,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:John Irving

"Yes, I see," Dr. Dolder said. "Are you tired now? Are you getting tired?" "It's the spelling," I told him. "The spelling and the reading." There were photographs on the ...
( Category: Family Saga February 9,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Henry James [James, Henry]

X ‘IT has not been recovered,’ I wrote early the next day, ‘and I’m moreover much troubled about our friend. He came back from Bigwood with a chill and, being ...
( Category: United States February 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-08-26 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

IV This paradise of frail foundation was broken into by the sounds of a general ingress to the ballroom; the cotillion was beginning. Betty and the camel joined the crowd, ...
( Category: Short Stories January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

THE CELESTIAL RAILROAD NOT a great while ago, passing through the gate of dreams, I visited that region of the earth in which lies the famous City of Destruction. It ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-02 | Author:Stone, Robert [Stone, Robert]

By the time she had showered and changed again, Roger was gone. The house had a floating population of servants and hangers-on, none of whom were anywhere in sight. The ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers January 12,2015 )