Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-07-14 | Author:Iris Murdoch [Murdoch, Iris]

There was no one else present. 'Good evening, Mrs McGrath.' 'You must excuse my deshabille. It's so hot this evening, isn't it.' 'Exceptionally hot and stuffy,' said Ducane. He sat ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-02-09 | Author:J. M. Coetzee [Coetzee, J. M.]

_Delikatessen_. Does that explain Nechaev's vengefulness: that his eyes have been opened to the fathers naked, the band of fathers, their appetites bared? What sort of man must he be, ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 1986-10-14 | Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]

26 When the night for the Ceremony came round again, two or three weeks later, I found that things were changed. There was an awkwardness now that there hadn't beenbefore. ...
( Category: Dystopian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1854-10-14 | Author:Horace Walpole [Walpole, Horace]

Manfred then conducting the three Knights into an inner chamber, shut the door, and inviting them to be seated, began thus, addressing himself to the chief personage:- “You come, Sir ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-06-10 | Author:Grisham, John [John, Grisham,]

The Bleachers “And we were so emotional,” Neely said. “I think all fifty of us were crying when the game was over. We’d just pulled off a miracle, against impossible ...
( Category: Sports March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-05-29 | Author:Tom Robbins [Robbins, Tom]

“The company’s changed since your divorce,” said Switters. “I hear they let black men be agents now,” said Washington. “Black women, too. Only we call them ‘African-Americans’ these days.” “Ja, ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:The Imperfectionists [Imperfectionists, The]

1963. CORSO VITTORIO, ROME With Betty out of the picture, Leo assumed full control of the paper and declared that his first goal was to raise status. Whether he meant ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-25 | Author:Spencer Quinn

The phone was ringing when we went inside. Suzie’s voice came over the answering machine. “Hi,” she said. “Nothing important—just wondering how Chet was doing.” Bernie ran for the phone, ...
( Category: Cozy Animal Mysteries March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Elizabeth Brundage [Brundage, Elizabeth]

* * * CHAPTER XIX. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN! Mrs. Gilbert spoke very little during the homeward drive through the moonlight. In her visions of that drive—or what that drive ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-02 | Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]

2 There was a contented smile on Lord Ickenham’s face as he settled himself in his hammock after leaving Lord Emsworth. It gratified him to feel that he had allayed ...
( Category: Humorous March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Manu Joseph [Joseph, Manu]

Acharya was miserable the whole week. All day, he would try to work, try to survive the unrelenting influence of Oparna, and go home to hunger and wakefulness. He realized ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-01 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Alexandra loved whipping along in Nat’s antique Jaguar with its top down. She could feel herself, in the eyes that watched her drive through town, flash by, an apparition of ...
( Category: Contemporary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

BUDDY, feeling jilted--especially so when, less than an hour after Conner left, sunlight drained it seemed forever from the windows of the cupola--became unable to bear his solitude, and started ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

In a few days, Orson had sorted them out. That jostling conglomerate, so apparently secure and homogeneous, broke down, under habitual exposure, into double individuals: roommates. There were Silverstein and ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

Crocuses are up at the old house; daffodils bloom at the new. The children who had lived in the new house before us left Superballs under the radiators for us ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )