World Literature
epub |eng | 1998-08-05 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [J. M. Coetzee]

The Hottentot camp was laid out on the bank of one of the streams that feed the Leeuwen River. It consisted of perhaps forty huts arranged in a rough circle ...
( Category: World Literature September 9,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

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: Contemporary September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-27 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J M]

THERE IS A new patient in the ward, a little old man who collapsed during physical training and was brought in with very low respiration and heartbeat. There is every ...
( Category: African September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-02-27 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [J.M. Coetzee]

11 The walk In the week that has passed since their last intimacy, there has grown up between Anna Sergeyevna and himself a barrier of awkward formality. Her bearing toward ...
( Category: Jewish September 9,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Sparks,Cat

= Thirty-six = Quarrel’s mesh stopped itching once they’d passed the last of the broken Sentinel towers. Telemetry from Nisn had been growing weaker by the mile, and the incessant ...
( Category: Science Fiction September 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Ellen Umansky

After her commute back to South Kensington (two different lines, half a mile’s walk), Rose let herself into Mrs. Deering’s with her own key. She had begged Margaret not to ...
( Category: World Literature September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Glenda Larke [Glenda Larke]

His father stood there on the seawall and watched them go. Arrant could feel some of his anguish at the parting, but knew it must be for his mother, not ...
( Category: Fantasy September 8,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Natsume Soseki [Natsume Soseki, Jay Rubin and Haruki Murakami]

Translator’s Afterword In the opening paragraph of The Miner (Kōfu), Sōseki suggests what the reader is in for as his protagonist walks through a long, narrow band of pine trees: ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-08 | Author:Ayelet Gundar-Goshen [Ayelet Gundar-Goshen]

Hours later, when the aftershave had been replaced by the sour smell of sweat, one of the nurses came over to him and said, “Your wife’s on the phone.” He ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 8,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Arthur, Keri [Arthur, Keri]

Chapter 8 The force of the blast knocked me off my feet and sent me tumbling. I landed in an ungainly heap near the shrubs that lined the parking lot, ...
( Category: Fantasy September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-29 | Author:Fred Vargas [Vargas, Fred]

In spite of all his resolutions, Adamsberg could not think calmly about the ghastly connection which had brought him face to face with the Trident half way across the world. ...
( Category: Mystery September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miriam Karmel [Karmel, Miriam]

One day, over lunch at Wing Yee’s, Lorraine says to Esther, “Where are we going to put all the bodies?” “All I know is, cremation isn’t right,” says Esther, who ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Lisa Barr

Chapter Twenty-Three PARIS Julian stood waiting for someone to answer the door to the Galerie Rohan-Levi. He glanced down the street at the immaculate row of art galleries lining the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-10-28 | Author:Javier Marias [Marias, Javier]

BLOOD ON A SPEAR For Luis Antonio de Villena I SAID GOODBYE for ever to my best friend without knowing that I was, because the following night, after far too ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-06 | Author:Javier Marías [Marías, Javier]

( Category: Spanish & Portuguese September 8,2017 )