Literary Fiction
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Love Peacock

Chapter IX - The Sexton * Mr Escot passed a sleepless night, the ordinary effect of love, according to some amatory poets, who seem to have composed their whining ditties ...
( Category: Classics March 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lesley Glaister

CROSSING THE LINE Night fell suddenly in the southern seas. The sun paused for a moment, big, hot, tensed and then sank like a stone and the stars punctured the ...
( Category: Romance March 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. Somerset Maugham

XX * I seemed to have slept a bare half-hour when I was awakened by a great noise downstairs. I got up, and looking out of the window saw a ...
( Category: Classics March 8,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Skinner

ON A GOOD DAY On a good day, he walks to the mailbox to look for birthday cards and love letters, takes a walk in the park, buys flowers for ...
( Category: Humor March 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Tarjei Vesaas

Frank and Freda are both there when he comes in. They are hungry and are waiting for him impatiently. Freda is keeping their scanty meal warm. But they do not ...
( Category: Historical March 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-03-07 | Author:Owen King

The Fields, Pt. 2 “I looked for you everywhere,” Robert said when she raised her head from the desk to see him sitting on the opposite side. “I thought you’d ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-02-01 | Author:Simon Mason [Mason, Simon]

Outside the Super’s office Ryan sat in a spare seat at the edge of the open-plan. He’d sat outside offices all his life waiting to be called in, usually to ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-01-11 | Author:Andrée A. Michaud

II. MARNIE February to April 2009 The Saint-Alban owl was swinging in the dark window, which shook with the last gusts of the storm, mixed with snowflakes that fell silently ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Nina Vida

14 KATRIN February, 1849 DILLY SIPPED THE COLTSFOOT tonic Aurelia held to her lips while Katrin, who had already changed Dilly’s nightgown and swept the floor, busied herself stirring the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 3,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:M. Darusha Wehm

“What do you think, Horatio?” Hamlet asked once they were alone. “She’s hard to read,” Horatio said. “She doesn’t show her feelings like you do.” “Even so,” Hamlet said. “Even ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Audrey Driscoll

Blue “Come see the garden,” he said, And even though he wasn’t The right one, I went. Down I went, By stone and water led To a place where roses ...
( Category: Action & Adventure March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Naguib Mahfouz [Mahfouz, Naguib]

17 The next month that he spent in the academy was the longest and cruelest of all. At first he was in great pain over his sullied honor and pride, ...
( Category: Romance March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:H.M. Shander

Chapter Eleven There was a bouquet on the corner of my desk when I came into work, a giant collection of lilies, carnations, daisies, and red roses. It had been ...
( Category: Sagas March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony Parsons

Chapter Five No Tower for Old Men Through the smoked glass of the control tower, the Jumbo 747 first revealed itself to Spike as if it were a star above ...
( Category: British & Irish March 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-08-18 | Author:K.L. SHANDWICK [Shandwick, K.L.]

CHAPTER 52 Levi “Thank God for that, I thought they’d never leave,” Sadie said as the gates closed after Jude’s car drove out of the driveway. He, Esther and Bailey ...
( Category: Romance March 2,2023 )