World Literature
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Emmanuelle Arsan [Arsan, Emmanuelle]

5 The Law Come, my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world. —Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” Thou didst create night and I made the lamp, Thou didst ...
( Category: French August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Alan M. Dershowitz [DERSHOWITZ, ALAN M.]

XXVIII Rendi HE’D HAD THREE DRINKS, and still Habash felt miserable. Wasn’t scotch supposed to dull your pain? The bartender at the small club at the top floor of the ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Francois Rabelais

How Rondibilis, the physician, advises Panurge CHAPTER 31 [Behind Rondibilis probably lies Dr Rondelet, a distinguished physician at Montpellier. Rondibilis advocates the teachings about semen of the Platonico-Hippocratic school which, ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:A. Bertram Chandler [Chandler, A. Bertram]

She said, “That was good. . . .” “It was.” “Stay there, darling, and I’ll make us some coffee. We don’t want to waste time sleeping.” A sleep, thought Grimes, ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Skibell [Skibell, Joseph]

CHAPTER 4 On Monday, as I knew it must, a note from Papagenogasse arrived for me at the clinic. I put off opening it for as long as I could, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-01 | Author:Dara Horn [Horn, Dara]

THEY STALKED THE darkness in the jungle all night long, wearing seventy-pound packs with all their supplies, walking for hours without traveling very far at all, moving in circles. Daniel ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-08-28 | Author:Rina Frank

Our National Pride Day I stood on the balcony watching Ya’akov being beaten by his father with a belt and feeling terribly sorry for him. Someone must have snitched to ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Severo Sarduy & Mark Fried [Sarduy, Severo & Fried, Mark]

“Lethargy cubensis,” diagnosed the intern, excessively learned like all apprentices, “a typical case.” He glanced out of the corner of his eye at the spot where his idle supervisor stood ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Clarice Lispector

Translator’s Afterword In 1954, when she was living in Washington as the wife of a Brazilian diplomat, Clarice Lispector received the French translation of her first book, Near to the ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1984-01-01 | Author:Pierre Michon [Michon, Pierre]

The Life of Father Foucault It was the beginning of summer, in the early seventies, in Clermont-Ferrand. My brief sojourn into the world of theater was coming to an end; ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1889-01-01 | Author:Louis Couperus [Couperus, Louis]

XXIII Otto had already gone out when Willem, the manservant, brought the letter into the dining room. Only Frédérique and her mother were present. Mathilda had gone for a walk ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Lindsay Armstrong [Armstrong, Lindsay]

Bridget closed her mouth. It had fallen open not only at what he’d revealed but at the bitter intensity he’d shown. And although his expression was wiped clean and unreadable ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Rohan Wilson [Wilson, Rohan]

In the afternoon the company reached a creek edging the grasslands to the south where the forest walled off the plain and the chirruping of frogs sounded out the seconds. ...
( Category: World Literature August 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Clarice Lispector

No longer even fear, no longer even fright. Had I vomited my last human remnants? And I was no longer asking for help. The diurnal desert was before me. And ...
( Category: Literary August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1839-01-01 | Author:Georg Buchner [Buchner, Georg]

Mr. L. . . by Johann Friedrich Oberlin HE ARRIVED here January 20th 1778. I did not know him. At first glance, given his long curly hair, I took him ...
( Category: German August 28,2017 )