Literary
epub |eng | 1951-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

IV 12 September 1944. Lunched at Peter Jones and bought new lamp for Henry’s study. A prim lunch surrounded by other women. Not a man anywhere. It was like being ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Cutter, Nick [Cutter, Nick]

25 BEFORE THEY entered the woods, Newton stepped inside the cabin. He needed his field book and the rope. His heart was beating like a tom-tom. Fat beads of sweat ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1874-01-01 | Author:Hardy, Thomas [Hardy, Thomas]

CHAPTER XXXI Blame—Fury THE NEXT EVENING BATHSHEBA, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr. Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-24 | Author:Williams, Tennessee [Williams, Tennessee]

[In the ensuing pause, the “blue piano” is heard. It continues through the rest of this scene and the opening of the next. The young man clears his throat and ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1908-01-01 | Author:Forster, E. M. [Forster, E. M.]

Let us take Mrs. Honeychurch’s advice and hate clergymen no more. What’s this place?” “Summer Street, of course,” said Lucy, and roused herself. The woods had opened to leave space ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-06 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

It was neater in Dutch than in Nama, which still lived in the flowering-time of inflexion. I bored a sheath in the earth and would have performed the ur-act had ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1929-01-15 | Author:Hemingway, Ernest [Hemingway, Ernest]

Chapter XXVI 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 ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1847-01-01 | Author:Bronte, Charlotte [Bronte, Charlotte]

It was dated three years back. “Why did I never hear of this?” I asked. “Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1879-01-15 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

XII ON THE MORROW, IN the afternoon, he stayed at home, awaiting Mr. Townsend’s call—a proceeding by which it appeared to him (justly perhaps, for he was a very busy ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1961-01-28 | Author:Hughes, Richard [Hughes, Richard]

17 Presumably the whole party had luncheon presently, but Augustine was too deeply besotted to be conscious of such things any more. Afterwards however came something that he had to ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1987-01-29 | Author:McEwan, Ian [McEwan, Ian]

At the end of a day in which he had come close to smashing a car, seeing a man crushed to death, being set upon by beggars and falling out ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Hurley, Andrew Michael [Hurley, Andrew Michael]

Chapter Seventeen ‘Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,’ said Miss Bunce. ‘It has been three months since my last confession.’ ‘I see.’ ‘It was with Father Wilfred, just before ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-23 | Author:Cave, Nick [Cave, Nick]

‘What’s the capital of China!?’ Bunny Junior awakes to the smell of hand cream and the retracting flutter of his mother’s fingers. His father sits beside him, panting and super-charged, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1928-01-01 | Author:Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, D. H.]

CHAPTER ELEVEN CONNIE WAS SORTING OUT one of the Wragby lumber rooms. There were several: the house was a warren, and the family never sold anything. Sir Geoffrey’s father had ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1973-01-01 | Author:Hoban, Russell [Hoban, Russell]

19 Jachin-Boaz’s wife, with her husband and son both gone, now considered the situation in which she found herself. In the first months after Jachin-Boaz’s departure she had gone through ...
( Category: Fantasy November 12,2018 )