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Coin Locker Babys by Ryu Murakami & Stephen Snyder (translator)
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-18 | Author:Ryu Murakami & Stephen Snyder (translator)

A faint rush of wings over the water, ducks probably, and a cry carried off by the wind. Hashi’s breath was white as he crossed the park for a second ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
azw3 |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Hermann Sudermann

* * * On the first Sunday in October, Herr Dehnicke called to take Lilly for a walk. He had done it twice before, and Lilly had been charmed to ...
( Category: Religious Worship & Devotion October 18,2021 )
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
azw3 |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:G.K. Chesterton

CHAPTER 10 THE DUEL Syme sat down at a café table with his companions, his blue eyes sparkling like the bright sea below, and ordered a bottle of Saumur with ...
( Category: Christian Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
The Masnavi: Book Two by Rumi
azw3 |eng | 1270-01-02 | Author:Rumi

( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Charles Baxter [Baxter, Charles]

In the act of dying, Quilty visually brings forth Lolita. There she is, her visual traceries coming out of his mouth. He has taken her innocence, and it’s inside him. ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
Incidences by Daniil Kharms
azw3 |eng | 1939-01-01 | Author:Daniil Kharms

(21) Clunk Summer. A writing table. A door to the right. A picture on the wall. The picture is a drawing of a horse, the horse has a gypsum in ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
azw3 |eng | 1989-12-31 | Author:W.G. Sebald

the waiter in the green apron had just made his last rounds, when I imagined I heard a horse's hooves on the cobbled square and the sound of carriage wheels; ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Günter Grass

Bebra's Theater at the Front In mid-June of forty-two, my son Kurt turned one year old. Oskar, his father, took it in stride, thought to himself: Just two short years ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
Bluebeard's First Wife by Ha Seong-Nan
azw3 |eng | 2002-03-30 | Author:Ha Seong-Nan [Seong-Nan, Ha]

• When I didn’t get my period, I recalled the night I had spent with my fiancé. We were getting married next March. Getting pregnant before the wedding wasn’t something ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
The Major Works by Sir Thomas Browne
azw3 |eng | 1686-01-01 | Author:Sir Thomas Browne [Browne, Sir Thomas]

( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Isaac Babel

AT THE WORKERS’ RETREAT Beyond the veranda is the night, full of slow sounds and majestic darkness. An inexhaustible rain patrols the violet clefts of the mountains, and the gray ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
The Queen of Spades and Selected Works by Alexander Pushkin
azw3, epub |eng | 1834-01-01 | Author:Alexander Pushkin [Pushkin, Alexander]

EXTRACT FROM THE BLANK-VERSE TRAGEDY BORIS GODUNOV (SCENE V) Pimen’s Monologue 1603. A Cell in the Monastery of the Miracle. Night. FATHER PIMEN, a monk, writing under a lamp. PIMEN. ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-31 | Author:Octave Mirbeau

Laughter in the foliage, little cries, the friskiness of a dog … Clara appeared, dressed half in Chinese fashion, half in European. A pale mauve silk blouse faintly spangled with ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

43 Van spent a medicinal month in Cordula’s Manhattan flat on Alexis Avenue. She dutifully visited her mother at their Malbrook castle two or three times a week, unescorted by ...
( Category: World Literature October 18,2021 )
God of Nothingness by Mark Wunderlich
azw3 |eng | 2021-01-12 | Author:Mark Wunderlich [Wunderlich, Mark]

FRAGMENT OF ST. JULIAN after Piero della Francesca The throat of the stag was never meant for speaking. It would have pained the creature to make the shapes, to force ...
( Category: Philosophy October 18,2021 )

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