Literary
epub | | 2010-03-02 | Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, Francis Scott]

He was wrong; Baby Warren had no such intentions. She had looked Dick over with worldly eyes, she had measured him with the warped rule of an Anglophile and found ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-10-14 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER NINE The Countess of Rocksbier sat at the head of the table alone with Jacob. Fed upon champagne and spices for at least two centuries (four, if you count ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-02-26 | Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]

8 What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? —it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and ...
( Category: Beat Generation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2002-04-14 | Author:Marcel Proust [Proust, Marcel]

From the height we had now reached, the sea suggested no longer, as at Balbec, the undulations of swelling mountains, but on the contrary the view, beheld from a mountain-top ...
( Category: World Literature March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2001-04-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

I may have described the period of my odd quiet tête-à-tête with Gilbert as if it could have covered weeks, but in fact it covered days. Upon the last of ...
( Category: Sea Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-13 | Author:Cannery Row [Row, Cannery]

CHAPTER XVII In spite of his friendliness and his friends Doc was a lonely and a set-apart man. Mack probably noticed it more than anybody. In a group, Doc seemed ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER SIX “I DON’T BELIEVE IT, I can’t believe it!” repeated Razumikhin, trying in perplexity to refute Raskolnikov’s arguments. They were by now approaching Bakaleyev’s lodgings, where Pulcheria Alexandrovna and ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

Mr. Claypole as he appeared when his Master was out “Here’s a delicious fat one, Noah, dear!” said Charlotte; “try him, do; only this one.” “What a delicious thing is ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-01 | Author:Arthur Ransome [Ransome, Arthur]

The old man said nothing, but went on, climbing up and up, nearly dead with the weight of the old woman in the sack which he was holding in his ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Upton Sinclair [Sinclair, Upton]

IV Paul and Bunny talked, that Friday night, and a lot of Saturday and Sunday, and Paul explained the Russian revolution. There was an easy way for Bunny to understand ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in]

* * * XXXII FRANCIE had started a diary on her thirteenth birthday with the entry: Dec. 15. Today I enter my teens. What will the year bring forth? I ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Saul Bellow [Bellow, Saul]

"You approve?" "I certainly do. It's a beautiful jacket You look Indian in it, with your dark coloring." "I may join the Bhave group." "Which is that?" "Sharing large estates ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-24 | Author:Saul Bellow & Adam Kirsch [Bellow, Saul & Kirsch, Adam]

XIII After this came tribal dances and routines that were strictly like vaudeville. An old woman wrestled with a dwarf, only the dwarf lost his temper and tried to hurt ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2005-06-29 | Author:E. M. Forster [Forster, E. M.]

CHAPTER XX Although Miss Quested had not made herself popular with the English, she brought out all that was fine in their character. For a few hours an exalted emotion ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

XVIII ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON AT CAPUA I WAS SITTING ON a stone bench behind the stables of my villa, thinking out some problem of Etruscan history and idly shooting dice, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )