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The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras
epub |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:Marguerite Duras [Duras, Marguerite]

She comes back from seeing the Beugners to the door. She comes in, slowly, and leans against the French doors. With bowed head, her hands behind her gripping the curtains, ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
Paterson (Revised Edition) by William Carlos Williams
epub |eng | 1995-04-17 | Author:William Carlos Williams [Williams, William Carlos]

Scattered, the fierceness of knowledge comes flocking down again— souvenir of childhood, the skull of the white stone . There was Margaret of the big breasts and daring eyes who ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
The Dimitrakos Proposition by Lynne Graham
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Lynne Graham

CHAPTER SEVEN IN RECEIPT OF that attack, Acheron stiffened in astonishment and angled his arrogant dark head back, his black-as-jet eyes gleaming with angry incomprehension even as his attention lingered ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Letter from Brooklyn by Jacob Scheier
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Jacob Scheier

EXPLAINING SONNET 73 TO THE ALIENS Let’s call the speaker of this poem “you.” You are speaking to me in metaphors, which are kinds of lies. You begin by telling ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
A River Dies of Thirst by Cobham Catherine Darwish Mahmoud
epub |eng | | Author:Cobham, Catherine, Darwish, Mahmoud

Snow The white air thickens, slows down and spreads like combed cotton in space. When it comes into contact with the body of night it lights it up on all ...
( Category: Love Poems March 25,2014 )
The Black Spider (New York Review Books Classics) by Jeremias Gotthelf
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-08 | Author:Jeremias Gotthelf

* * * “What, there in the black piece of wood?” the godmother cried out, leaping up as if she’d sat on an anthill. She’d sat right before that post ...
( Category: German March 25,2014 )
The Most Expensive Lie of All by Michelle Conder
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Michelle Conder [Conder, Michelle]

CHAPTER SEVEN WHEN SHE WOKE the next morning and decided she really couldn’t hang out in her room all day Aspen ventured out into the living area of Cruz’s luxury ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Mute Objects of Expression by Francis Ponge
epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Francis Ponge

FORMATION OF A POETIC ABSCESS August 22, 1940 Winter: Temple of caducity. Eroded by lichen, the low branches have fallen. And no encumbrance midway up. No snaking of vines or ...
( Category: French March 25,2014 )
The World Without You by Joshua Henkin
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Joshua Henkin [Henkin, Joshua]

9 It’s eight o’clock, but dinner hasn’t started yet; everyone is stalling except Noelle. “Come on,” she says. “Let’s eat.” If they wait until Amram comes back they may never ...
( Category: Family Life March 25,2014 )
The Green Mill Murder by Kerry Greenwood
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Kerry Greenwood [Greenwood, Kerry]

CHAPTER NINE Away! Away! For I will fly to thee John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ Phryne slept the night without dreaming, and the next morning took up the packet ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Correspondences by Anne Michaels
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Anne Michaels [Michaels, Anne]

Most of the individuals portrayed in these pages are accompanied by their own words. Sometimes an individual’s words are brought together from more than one source. On occasion, the words ...
( Category: Portraits March 25,2014 )
Alamut by Vladimir Bartol
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Vladimir Bartol [Bartol, Vladimir]

Abu Ali was waiting for them outside the entrance to the supreme command. He noticed that their faces were feverishly preoccupied. If only they knew what they’re getting into! was ...
( Category: World Literature March 25,2014 )
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Knut Hamsun

XIII A COUPLE OF DAYS went by. Nagel stayed at the hotel, wandering about with a gloomy air and looking harassed and suffering; his eyes had in the course of ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
Sepharad by Antonio Munoz Molina
epub |eng | | Author:Antonio Munoz Molina

WHEN THE DOCTOR RETURNS to the hotel, he will show his wife the physical marks the fingernails made as proof of what happened, the things he will tell her with ...
( Category: Biographical March 25,2014 )
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
epub |eng | 1873-03-24 | Author:Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLII Sunday Morning "So, miss, you've took him?" said the joint Abigail of the Carbuncle establishment that evening to the younger of her two mistresses. Mrs. Carbuncle had resolved ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )

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