World Literature
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Laurens, Stephanie]

* * * High in one of the manor’s towers, on a truckle bed in Melinda Spotwood’s small room, Claire lay on her back beneath the covers and stared, unseeing, ...
( Category: Scottish November 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Mo Yan [Yan, Mo]

3. Gao Ma spent the night among the mulberries and acacias, not emerging from the world of ghosts and goblins until dawn broke, and then feeling chilled all over—except for ...
( Category: Chinese November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-05 | Author:Aminatta Forna [Forna, Aminatta]

CHAPTER 26 My first reaction, upon my release, was to rid myself of the odours of that vile place. I showered twice, then shaved. Later I called and arranged to ...
( Category: African November 7,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J.M.]

Ill 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: War & Military November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

* * * 1 Weapon used by Argentine gauchos which consists of several ropes tied together with metal balls at the ends. The Man Who Belonged to Me. Giovanni Papini ...
( Category: Anthologies November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-31 | Author:Miranda Lee

CHAPTER FIFTEEN ‘THANK GOD THEY’RE GONE,’ Ben muttered under his breath as Andy and Catherine drove off in their much-decorated car. The happy couple were spending their wedding night in ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania November 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-02 | Author:Tamara Faith Berger

Nadia worked at Carousel’s. She’d been there as a bartender since she’d turned eighteen and she always served all of her underage friends. Because of her dad, she said to ...
( Category: Canadian November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | 2010-01-08 | Author:Joseph Roth [Roth, Joseph]

XIII Er las Kurse. Sein Geld vermehrte sich, er lernte sagen: Das Kapital wächst. Nun waren Wege frei. Wege zu weißschimmernden Villen im Tiergarten, zwischen samtenem Rasengrün, hinter silbrigen Gittern, ...
( Category: German November 7,2014 )
epub |deu | | Author:Walter Moers

Der Stern der Katakomben Was wie ein Ausflug an die Oberwelt begonnen hatte, schien nun in immer finsterere Unterwelten zu führen. Wir waren in einen Bereich des Waldes hinabgestiegen, in ...
( Category: German November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |deu | 2011-01-18 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

TERTIA Worin Adson sich in den Schmerzen der Liebe windet, bis William mit dem Text des Venantius kommt, der allerdings, wenngleich entziffert, weiterhin unverständlich bleibt. In Wahrheit hatte ich, nach ...
( Category: Italian November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-01 | Author:Vicki Delany [Vicki Delany]

Talk at the coffee shop was all about the CNC program. It had been rebroadcast across the United States that morning on the network’s breakfast show. “I wouldn’t of thought ...
( Category: Canadian November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Calonego, Bernadette [Calonego, Bernadette]

The next day the biggest newspaper in town featured an in-depth article on Francis Bourdin, complete with a full-color picture of the man and a headline that read: “What Has ...
( Category: Conspiracies November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Roberto Bolaño [Bolaño, Roberto]

And then the storm of shit begins. Copyright © 2000 by Roberto Bolaño and Editorial Anagrama Translation copyright © 2003 by Chris Andrews Originally published by Editorial Anagrama as Nocturno ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Davidsdottir, Vilborg [Davidsdottir, Vilborg]

In mid-August, shortly after the Feast of St. Mary, Father Jon Palsson arrived at Holar along with Asbjorn, abbot of the Thingeyrar monastery. A dozen men made up their entourage. ...
( Category: Scandinavian November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Nalini Singh [Singh, Nalini]

Chapter 4 CONSCIOUS AT ONCE that he might just have screwed up his attempt at a gentle courtship, he said, “Or we can go outside.” Where he could talk her ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania November 6,2014 )