Literary
mobi, epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Richard Adams

Thursday the llth November “—And then there’s this,” said the Under Secretary, picking up a press cutting, “which you may already have seen. It may prove entirely negligible, but I ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:James Agee

Chapter 12 Andrew had shut the door but they could hear him, trying to talk quietly. He was talking, indeed, very quietly, close to the mouthpiece with his hand around ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:William Gaddis

AFTERWORD Joseph Tabbi Agapē Agape is William Gaddis’s swan song, his most concentrated fiction, and the one work where he risks a direct address to the reader. The distillation of ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Evelyn Waugh

That evening, next day and for several days, I disliked Lucy. I made a story for all who knew him, of Roger’s dinner party, leaving the impression that this was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 6 Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Erskine Caldwell

Chapter XI THE LESTERS HEARD DUDE blowing the horn far down the tobacco road long before the new automobile came within sight, and they all ran to the farthest corner ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-02-15 | Author:John Steinbeck; Robert Demott

17 THE spring came richly, and the hills lay deep in grass— emerald green, the rank thick grass; the slopes were sleek and fat with it. Under the constant rains ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2009-12-26 | Author:John Steinbeck

17 THE spring came richly, and the hills lay deep in grass— emerald green, the rank thick grass; the slopes were sleek and fat with it. Under the constant rains ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:P.G. Wodehouse

CHAPTER 8 I There is nothing that keys up the system like an eloquent pep talk, and Wilfred Allsop awoke next morning full of optimism and the will to win. ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

26 I went to the door and looked out. It had stopped raining but there was a mist. "Should we go upstairs?" I asked the priest. "I can only stay ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-04-14 | Author:Carson McCullers

‘Gosh, the beer along with this hot sun makes me dizzy. But I sure do feel good,’ he said. ‘I can’t wait to get in swimming.’ There was sand in ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-02-28 | Author:Albert Camus

“Don’t believe it,” Mersault said, holding out his hand. Bernard held his hand a long time. “To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1945-01-01 | Author:Glenway Wescott; David Leavitt

11. THOUGH ALEX HAD NOT DARED TO TURN AND ACKNOWLEDGE his father’s last instruction, he had heard it. To be quick about it, to run all the way to the ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Carlo Emilio Gadda; Italo Calvino; William Weaver

VII "Ines Cionini ..." "Yes, Chief?" Paolillo asked. "To be kept at our disposal! . . ." Poor girl, she was to await the dawn on the flat board of ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Walker Percy

2 MY HALF BROTHERS and sisters are eating crabs at a sawbuck table on the screened porch. The carcasses mount toward a naked light bulb. They blink at me and ...
( Category: Literary March 25,2014 )