Classics
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan & Robert Atwan [Sullivan, John Jeremiah & Atwan, Robert]

When I got back from Mongolia, I was so sad I could barely breathe. On five or six occasions I ran into mothers who had heard what had happened, and ...
( Category: Essays October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-03 | Author:George Sand [Sand, George]

* * * XIV THE OLD WOMAN Germain soon found himself at the spot on the edge of the pool where he had passed the night. The fire was still ...
( Category: Short Stories October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Coleman, Victor, Duncan, Robert, Boughn, Michael

No poetic fantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell . . . where “poetic fantasy,” with its connotation of ...
( Category: Movements & Periods October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:James Hadley Chase [Chase, James Hadley]

CHAPTER TEN THE HEAD-LIGHTS of the Cadillac sent two long fingers of white glare up the mountain road that led to Ocean Rise. Lu Farrel lounged at the wheel and ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1999-11-02 | Author:Eddings, David [Eddings, David]

It must be candidly admitted, however, that through the closing centuries of the third millennium and throughout most of the fourth, it was a basic tenet of Tolnedran policy to ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-30 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object. "When you see ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-04-05 | Author:Rudolf Erich Raspe [Raspe, Rudolf Erich]

THE SECOND VOLUME PREFACE TO THE SECOND VOLUME Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of egregious travellers have been such, that ...
( Category: German October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-25 | Author:Joel Chandler Harris [Harris, Joel Chandler]

* * * XXXVI BRER WOLF FALLS A VICTIM "Uncle Remus," said the little boy, one night, when he found the old man sitting alone in his cabin, "did you ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-07-31 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

"Yes," cried Richard, "and I was the man who served out the fish and salt. When the poor devils came to receive their rations, Benjamin, who was my deputy, was ...
( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs [Burroughs, Edgar Rice]

( Category: Classics October 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Kafka, Franz & Neugroschel, Joachim [Kafka, Franz]

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 October 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-02 | Author:Joan Didion & David Thomson [Didion, Joan & Thomson, David]

36 "THERE'S SOME PRINCIPLE I'm not grasping, Maria," Carter said on the telephone from New York. "You've got a $1,500-a-month house sitting empty in Beverly Hills, and you're living in ...
( Category: Classics October 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Valerie Taylor & Barbara Grier [Taylor, Valerie & Grier, Barbara]

Mary Jean's eyes widened with surprise. "All right," she said. She pushed back the blanket. Chapter 13 Winter came overnight, not with stinging snow and heaped drifts as in Illinois,, ...
( Category: Specific Demographics October 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Ryunosuke Akutagawa

An hour later he sat at breakfast with Toshihito and his father−in−law, Arihito. In front of him was a huge vat filled to the brim with a tremendous sea of ...
( Category: Japanese October 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Muhsin Mahdi & Husain Haddawy [Mahdi, Muhsin & Haddawy, Husain]

THE NINETY-NINTH NIGHT The following night Shahrazad said: It is related, O King, that Ja’far said to the caliph: Badr al-Din said, “Because the pomegranate dish lacked pepper, you have ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 9,2014 )