World Literature
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

The next day, I called Tante Zi and explained all that I’d learned about Marius’s return to Haiti. Tante Zi was aware of the funeral home cost, she said; she ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Joseph O'Neill

Joseph Dakak, with Tayara In his testimony, Joseph gave a very specific – and, I thought, entirely credible – account of his reasons for going to Jerusalem. But he was ...
( Category: Irish March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Elif Shafak

Oddly enough, women, too, are used to thinking of themselves in these terms. The relationships we build with one another, the talks we have among ourselves and the way we ...
( Category: Women Writers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Eva Gabrielsson

( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

'He doesn't have plans. He is a Coetzee, Coetzees don't have plans, they don't have ambitions, they only have idle longings. He has an idle longing to live in the ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Gregor von Rezzori

It was never revealed to me in what exactly his duties at the office consisted. No doubt some desk-job activities, though it remained unfathomable how and when he accomplished these. ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sebastian Barry

chapter fifteen Dr Grene's Commonplace Book Curious and upsetting news today about John Kane. At a staff meeting we were trying to field a report from one of the wards. ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-04-14 | Author:Salman Rushdie

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 I am woken at 5:00 A.M. by amplified music and chanting from a mandir, a Hindu temple, across the valley. I get dressed and walk around the ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2002-01-31 | Author:Fernando Pessoa

280 O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor; Luba Vinogradova

Soldiers burned to death in the houses. Their charred corpses were found. Not one of them had fled. They burned holding out. One of Grossman’s most celebrated articles in Krasnaya ...
( Category: World War II March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

For the past several days, the taxis had been operating freely again. There were three of them stationed at the Place de la Muette and Henri took one to go ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]

THE EMBASSY AFTER TAKING A LATE SUPPER, my teacher called for Latif and asked the eunuch to escort him, Elsie and me on a stroll around the palace grounds. After ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Matthew Reilly [Reilly, Matthew]

THE HALL OF THE MACHINE The twenty foot high archway in which Jack stood looked microscopic compared to the space that opened up below it. The archway stood at the ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Nadine Gordimer

180 Buried under sand the insistence of a broken line of words surfaces to disturb her quiet mind … ‘and she conceived … and retired with him to a far-off ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-07-28 | Author:Voltaire, Francois [Voltaire, Francois]

CHAPTER XXI Candide and Martin Approach the Coast of France and Argue At last they sighted the coast of France. “Have you ever been to France, Monsieur Martin?” said Candide. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )