World Literature
epub |eng | 2016-08-26 | Author:Colarusso, John; Salbiev, Tamirlan; May, Walter

38 ♦ AISHANA A son was born to Urizhmag, and like the rumble of thunder the news echoed around and reached the ears of the heavenly Shafa, the god of ...
( Category: World Literature August 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-27 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

15 Caryl Phillips I OVER THE COURSE of three centuries the slave trade shipped some eleven million unwilling people from Africa to the New World – the greatest forced population ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 27,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Easter Day 10 April 1966 Zakhar-the-Pouch You asked me to tell you something about my cycling holiday last summer. Well, if it’s not too boring, listen to this one about ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER TWELVE In the hall, Charles dropped the packet on Fulchett’s salver, then remembered he needed more clothes. Penny waved him up the stairs. “Go on. I’ll wait.” He went, ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Claudia Stone [Stone, Claudia]

A dark ceiling of cloud obscured the stars, as Sebastian made his way home a few hours later. One brandy had turned into rather a few, and he hoped that ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-11-29 | Author:Gustave Flaubert [Flaubert, Gustave]

Seven THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED were filled with gloom. They no longer studied for fear of disappointments. The people of Chavignolles avoided them, the few newspapers they could tolerate told ...
( Category: French August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Karl Kraus [Kraus, Karl]

SCENE 2 South Tyrol. In front of a bridge. An automobile is being stopped. The driver shows his pass. MILITIA MAN: Greetings gentlemen. May I ask – GRUMBLER: At last, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-09 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

CHAPTER 12 IN THE HALL, CHARLES DROPPED THE PACKET ON FILCHETT’S salver, then remembered he needed more clothes. Penny waved him up the stairs. “Go on. I’ll wait.” He went, ...
( Category: Historical August 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:J. David Simons [Simons, J. David]

Twenty-eight IT WAS DEEP INTO THE NIGHT when he awoke to a light thudding sound at the door. At first, he thought the noise came from the snout or claw ...
( Category: Contemporary August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-01 | Author:Ines Thorn [Thorn, Ines]

CHAPTER 15 The next morning at first light of dawn, the wind changed. Captain Boyse gave the order to weigh anchor. Maren woke dead tired and feeling as though she’d ...
( Category: Historical August 24,2018 )
epub | | 2011-01-14 | Author:Martel, Yann [Yann, Martel,]

"That's the end of the opening scene," he said. "Beatrice hasn't ever eaten a pear in her life, or even seen one, and Virgil tries to describe one for her." ...
( Category: Literary August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Sergei Kostin & Eric Raynaud [Kostin, Sergei]

CHAPTER 22 A Not So Radiant Future Vetrov had not disappeared. He was arrested ten minutes after he had left his home. Contrary to what he thought, Ludmila Ochikina was ...
( Category: True Crime August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Gregor Von Rezzori [Von Rezzori, Gregor]

Aunt Paulette reclined her bobbed hair against the seat back and stared up at the ceiling with arched eyebrows. “You have very beautiful throat,” said Uncle Sergei. “Are you tempted ...
( Category: World Literature August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Snyder

In later centuries much of Chinese Buddhism developed into something like a single sect, each large temple complex offering the choice of halls dedicated to devotional practices, textual scholarship, or ...
( Category: Poetry August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Annie Seaton [Seaton, Annie]

Chapter Thirteen David cursed as he shoved through the group of people blocking the entrance to the large tent Holly had hired for them behind the stage. Finally, with much ...
( Category: World Literature August 24,2018 )