Classics
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-08-15 | Author:John Steinbeck

2 The Great Mountains In the humming heat of a midsummer afternoon the little boy Jody listlessly looked about the ranch for something to do. He had been to the ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-07-03 | Author:Truman Capote

FOR TWO DAYS FOLLOWING OREILLY’S arrest Sylvia did not leave her room: sun on the window, then dark. By the third day she had run out of cigarettes, so she ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:O. Henry; Victoria Blake

—from The Heart of the West (1907) THE HIGHER ABDICATION Curly the tramp sidled toward the free-lunch counter. He caught a fleeting glance from the bartender’s eye, and stood still, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

The next afternoon I drove out to Fontan’s, through the shade of the town, then along the dusty road, turning up the side road and leaving the car beside the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Jonathan Lethem

Hazel Oh, Hazel, you’re making me crazy and lazy and hazy! Hazel, I think I love you! Hazel, you were the beginning of sex to me, a boy’s love for ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Truman Capote

LOLA (1964) Yes, it seemed in every respect a curious gift. An appalling one, really. For I had already a sufficiency of pets: two dogs, an English bulldog and a ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-12-12 | Author:L'amour, Louis [L'amour, Louis]

First publication: Bantam Books paperback, July 1970 Narrator: Flagan Sackett Time Period: c. 1875-1879 Flagan and Galloway Sackett were just looking for a place to start ranching. It was a ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-12-21 | Author:Barbara Kingsolver

I know of no one who really went looking to hoe the harder row, especially the daunting one of single parenthood. Yet it seems to be the most American of ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-31 | Author:Vonnegut, Kurt [Vonnegut, Kurt]

That night, Elmer prayed for a new husband for Ivy, a stout heart for Ethelbert, and a merciful death and paradise for himself on the morrow. “Amen,” said Elmer. “Maybe ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Arthur Miller

THE CURTAIN FALLS1 ACT THREE The vestry room of the Salem meeting house, now serving as the anteroom of the General Court. As the curtain rises, the room is empty, ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1997-10-31 | Author:Fagles, Robert & Homer & Knox, Bernard [Fagles, Robert]

So he grieved but I tried to lend him heart: ‘About noble Peleus I can tell you nothing, 576 but about your own dear son, Neoptolemus, I can report the ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-11 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

Charles came to Italy, and—to make amends—he victimized Conradin. Then he sent Saint Thomas back to Heaven—to make amends. I see a time, not far off, that brings forth another ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Flannery O'Connor

CHAPTER 8 Enoch Emery knew now that his life would never be the same again, because the thing that was going to happen to him had started to happen. He ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen & Galen Dara

“I was once a fighter, a member of the Boxer Rebellion. I was so fearless that they called me the Lion. “We invoked the old magic of China, the power ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-07 | Author:Eudora Welty

Cassie listened, but Für Elise was not repeated. She took up her ukulele from the foot of the bed. She screwed it into tune and played it, slurring the chords ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )