Classics
epub |eng | | Author:Sojourner Truth

“An everlasting temple, And saints arrayed in white, There serve their great Redeemer And dwell with him in light. “The meanest child of glory Outshines the radiant sun; But who ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-02-02 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston [Hurston, Zora Neale]

In New Orleans, I delved into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic. I studied with the Frizzly Rooster, and all of the other noted “doctors.” I learned the routines for making and ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:David Foster Wallace [Wallace, David Foster]

“TO TRY EXTRA HARD TO EXERCISE PATIENCE, POLITENESS, AND IMAGINATION” INTERVIEW BY DAVE EGGERS FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE BELIEVER NOVEMBER 2003 David Foster Wallace is from east-central Illinois, and this ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-14 | Author:Frank McCourt [McCourt, Frank]

My father applied for a plot out the road in Rosbrien and the government lent him a spade and a fork for the work. He took my brother Malachy and ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hunter S. Thompson

Crazy? Tex Colson? Never in hell. “He’s the meanest man in American politics,” says Nixon’s speechwriter Pat Buchanan, smiling lazily over the edge of a beer can beside the pool ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-06 | Author:W. E. B. Du Bois; Farah Jasmine Griffin

VIII Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece1 But the Brute said in his breast, “Till the mills I grind have ceased, The riches shall be dust of dust, dry ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-04 | Author:Huxley, Aldous [Huxley, Aldous]

Chapter 8 Chemical Persuasion In the Brave New World of my fable there was no whisky, no tobacco, no illicit heroin, no bootlegged cocaine. People neither smoked, nor drank, nor ...
( Category: Dystopian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1963-01-02 | Author:John Steinbeck

The deep green pool of the Salinas River was still in the late afternoon. Already the sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes of the Gabilan ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1904-01-02 | Author:Henry James; Ruth Bernard Yeazell; Philip Horne

11 ‘I can’t say more,’ this made his companion reply, ‘than that something in her face, her voice and her whole manner acted upon me as nothing in her had ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Henry James

II He received three days after this a communication from America, in the form of a scrap of blue paper folded and gummed, not reaching him through his bankers, but ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1913-01-01 | Author:Willa Cather; Chris Kraus

VII MARIE’S FATHER, ALBERT TOVESKY, was one of the more intelligent Bohemians who came West in the early seventies. He settled in Omaha and became a leader and adviser among ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:James T. Farrell

II St. Patrick’s church was packed, and hushed. Father Shannon, a plump, bald-headed priest, emerged from the sacristy door on the right, pushed the back of his right hand to ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-27 | Author:Nicole Krauss

He walked outside and waited for his eyes to adjust to the dark. If there was no moon, as there was not tonight, the stars went berserk, billions of them ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1969-01-02 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

in consequence of a trivial altercation with a Captain Tapper, of Wild Violet Lodge, whom I happened to step upon in the corridor of a train, I had a pistol ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-09-12 | Author:Elmore Leonard

16 TEDDY’S MOM SAID TO BUDDY, cocking her head the same way Buddy had his green-and-orange parrot head cocked, “He don’t remember all I’ve done for him. What I went ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )