Literary Fiction
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa [Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di]

The senator left the next morning; I went to the station to see him off. He was surly and cutting as usual, but, when the train began to move, his ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:M. John Harrison [Harrison, M. John]

SEVENTEEN Correlation States When the Kefahuchi Tract expanded, in what came to be known as ‘the Event’, parts of it fell to earth on planets all along the Beach. Event ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Pär Lagerkvist [Lagerkvist, Pär]

Here the old woman broke off her story. She straightened herself, then bent forward and fiercely poked the fire, which she had been feeding from time to time with a ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:Alain Robbe-Grillet

The picture, in its varnished wood frame, represents a tavern scene. It is a nineteenth-century etching, or a good reproduction of one. A large number of people fill the room, ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Halldór Laxness

24 DER ERLKÖNIG That summer, things began to look up a little for me. For many years I had not dared to open my mouth to sing within earshot of ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Jim Krusoe [Krusoe, Jim]

8 In the end, I’m sorry to say, the whole selection process degenerated into little more than a question of who seemed to need rescuing most, and in that regard ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 1986-05-14 | Author:Julien Gracq [Gracq, Julien]

How poignant it was, that voice which bore the strange and funereal canticle out of the mists of time, like the rustling of a black veil over this joyous festival: ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Stanisław Lem [Lem, Stanisław]

9 BY THE END of August, I was mentally drained, more drained, I think, than I had ever been. The creative potential, the capacity to solve problems, changes in a ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Sergio Chejfec [Chejfec, Sergio]

M and the other often had conflicting opinions about the differences between the capital and the suburbs. Though they took it for what it was, which was truly secondary, for ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-23 | Author:Cristina Rivera Garza

THE IDEA BEGAN TO TEMPT ME SOME DAYS LATER. AT FIRST IT was only a game, something like an image within an image. Then, gradually, my eyes began to transform ...
( Category: American Literature October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Karl Ove Knausgaard

We cleaned our teeth together in the bathroom, kissed each other goodnight and went to our separate rooms. Outside, it had begun to rain. I lay listening to the light ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Mary Gaitskill [Gaitskill, Mary]

M. There are so many funny/awful stories that it’s hard to stop telling them. The nineteen-year-old who texted him every time she (a) took a shit or (b) had sex ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:Linda Boström Knausgaard [Knausgaard, Linda Boström]

- PART TWO - I REMEMBER THE taxi ride. And the room we came into. Urban’s hand on my shoulder. How he squeezed it. Calmly. As calmly as only he ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-07-20 | Author:Chuck Palahniuk & Richard Thomas & Dennis Widmyer [Palahniuk, Chuck]

I worked at a greasy spoon called Gary’s Diner my senior year when I was seventeen. It was a dirty place to eat and work, but they were hiring, and ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-02-14 | Author:Sara Teasdale [Teasdale, Sara]

RIVERS TO TOE SEA But what of her whose heart is troubled by it, The mother who would soothe and set him free, Fearing the song’s storm-shaken ecstasy— Oh, as ...
( Category: Children's Animals Books October 18,2021 )