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Sorrow Beyond Dreams, A by Handke Peter
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

If only once a week, she derived a pleasurable feeling of pride from the fact that a little something was left over for luxury. “We’re still better off than the ...
( Category: Memoirs November 12,2018 )
Dying Animal, The by Roth Philip
epub |eng | 2001-01-30 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

My affair with Consuela lasted for a little more than a year and a half. Only occasionally did we ever again go out for dinner or to the theater. She ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
Waiting for the Barbarians by Coetzee J. M
epub |eng | 1980-01-05 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

V THE BARBARIANS COME out at night. Before darkness falls the last goat must be brought in, the gates barred, a watch set in every lookout to call the hours. ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks November 12,2018 )
Governess and Other Stories, The by Zweig Stefan
epub |eng | 1907-01-02 | Author:Zweig, Stefan [Zweig, Stefan]

Something else, however, happened at this time in Esther’s life, nothing in itself strange or unlikely, but it affected the depths of her being like a rising storm and left ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
Plot Against America, The by Roth Philip
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

6 May 1942–June 1942 Their Country May 22, 1942 Dear Mr. Roth: In compliance with a request from Homestead 42, Office of American Absorption, U.S. Department of the Interior, our ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
Ayesha: The Return of She by Haggard Henry Rider
epub |eng | 1905-01-04 | Author:Haggard, Henry Rider [Haggard, Henry Rider]

Chapter 14 The Court of Death Now the curtains were open. Before us appeared a chamber hollowed from the thickness of the altar, and in its centre a throne, and ...
( Category: World Literature November 12,2018 )
Scenes from Provincial Life by Coetzee J. M
epub |eng | 2011-01-15 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

Fifteen He must find ways to save money. Lodging is his single biggest expense. He advertises in the classified section of the Hampstead local paper: ‘House-sitter available, responsible professional man, ...
( Category: World Literature November 12,2018 )
Man Who Was Thursday, The by Chesterton G. K
epub |eng | 1907-11-01 | Author:Chesterton, G. K. [Chesterton, G. K.]

CHAPTER NINE THE MAN IN SPECTACLES “BURGUNDY IS A JOLLY THING,” SAID THE PROFESSOR SADLY, AS HE SET his glass down. “You don’t look as if it were,” said Syme; ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
Snows of Yesteryear, The by Gregor Von Rezzori
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Gregor Von Rezzori [Rezzori, Gregor Von]

The Sister A child’s paintings on some sheets of paper: large, wondrously dark-shaded flowers, stemless and floating in space as in the world of the blind. Next to it an ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 12,2018 )
Black Spider, The by Gotthelf Jeremias
epub |eng | 1842-01-08 | Author:Gotthelf, Jeremias [Gotthelf, Jeremias]

Table of Contents Biographical Notes Title page Copyright and More Information Contents THE BLACK SPIDER
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 12,2018 )
Foundation Pit, The by Platonov Andrey
epub |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Platonov, Andrey [Platonov, Andrey]

Liquidating the kulaks into the distance86 brought Zhachev no calm; he even felt worse, though it was not clear why. For a long time he observed how the raft floated ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )
Tanners, The by Walser Robert
epub |eng | 2012-07-16 | Author:Walser, Robert [Walser, Robert]

The weather was growing ever warmer and the earth more resplendent, it was covered with a thick, blossoming carpet of meadows, the fields and pastures were steaming, the forests offered ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
Foe by Coetzee J. M
epub |eng | 1986-01-10 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

III The staircase was dark and mean. My knock echoed as if on emptiness. But I knocked a second time, and heard a shuffling, and from behind the door a ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
Marthe by Huysmans Joris-Karl
epub |eng | 1876-01-27 | Author:Huysmans, Joris-Karl [Huysmans, Joris-Karl]

Notes *68 … Meanwhile his money galloped away. Huysmans borrowed this image from a line in a poem by Joachim du Bellay (1522–1560) called La Complaînte du désespéré *77 … ...
( Category: World Literature November 11,2018 )
Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel, The by Handke Peter
epub |eng | 2007-12-10 | Author:Handke, Peter [Handke, Peter]

Waking up again. “Two, three, four,” Bloch started to count. His situation had not changed, but he must have grown used to it in his sleep. He pocketed the coin ...
( Category: Contemporary November 11,2018 )

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