Literary Fiction
azw3 |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:Monique Roffey [Roffey, Monique]

6. THE FISH RAIN AT NIGHT, AYCAYIA COULDN’T SLEEP. A future with the possibility of possibilities kept her awake. A deep sense of knowing had awoken in her from long ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-14 | Author:E.M. Forster

Chapter 6 * Italy, Philip had always maintained, is only her true self in the height of the summer, when the tourists have left her, and her soul awakes under ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-08-10 | Author:Charles Willford [Willford, Charles]

Mr. Frank Mansfield c/o Jeff Davis Hotel Jacksonville, Florida Dear Frank: I handled this matter personally, following your desires throughout, feeling you knew your brother Randall better than me. You ...
( Category: Mysteries October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-03 | Author:Michael Symmons Roberts [Roberts, Michael Symmons]

IN CUTAWAY Stands me, though it could be any of us, sliced open, scalp to instep, en pointe in formaldehyde inside a glass case like some macabre Houdini stunt. This ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Eric C. Higgs [Higgs, Eric C.]

Ten I didn’t know how far I wanted to take this office romance. I didn’t know if I wanted even one repeat performance. The more I looked at it, the ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-14 | Author:Giovanni Verga [Verga, Giovanni]

CHAPTER XI Once, on his amblings, ’Ntoni Malavoglia had seen two young men who had set sail a few years earlier from Riposto in search of their fortunes, and who ...
( Category: Classic Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-11-17 | Author:H.D.

ten It seemed now Lillian and George had gone home, standing before the little image, that she had always known what she had known now always. I have always known ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Joy Williams

There was still no coffee. She wasn’t going to waste her time looking for coffee when there wasn’t any. A moth was floating in the sheltie’s water bowl. This was ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Dino Buzzati

The Slaying of the Dragon IN MAY 1902, A PEASANT IN THE SERVICE OF COUNT Gerol, one Giosue Longo, who often went hunting in the mountains, reported that he had ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-04-16 | Author:Tatyana Tolstaya

• . . . The countryside around this cluster of dachas was marvelous—oaks everywhere and under the oaks, lawns, and on the lawns people playing volleyball in the reddish evening ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1959-01-01 | Author:Marie-Claire Blais [Blais, Marie-Claire]

* 5 Once again the chess game brought Louise and Lanz be neath the lamplight. Louise was using more and more make up, trying to hide the scandalous vein on ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1998-01-19 | Author:Venedikt Yerofeev [Yerofeev, Venedikt]

Fryazevo to Kilometre 61 ‘Okay, here’s to Privy Councillor Johann von Goethe!’ Well, the minute I downed that one I could feel I was getting seriously guttered, and so were ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Suzette Haden Elgin [Elgin, Suzette Haden]

Chapter 8 Responsible sat at her desk, the private account books before her, and worked, doggedly. It was work that had needed doing before she had left the Castle in ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Arkady Strugatsky & Boris Strugatsky

4 Woe is me, I am not a strong fellow And the upyr will gobble me right up . . . —A. S. Pushkin “He’s hatched,” Roman said calmly, looking ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Jean-Philippe Toussaint [Toussaint, Jean-Philippe]

Now the villa was closed and silent, stretching out in the mist behind the wall of the property, and I stood in front of the gate, apparently alone on the ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )