Literary
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Leo, Forrest [Leo, Forrest]

‘Of course I do!’ ‘Bosch and Bruegel,’ says Lancaster. ‘Who copied whom?’ ‘What?’ Lizzie is becoming flustered. Lancaster charges on. ‘Who’s Gustave Courbet?’ ‘A painter.’ ‘What did he paint?’ ‘PAINTINGS.’ ...
( Category: Humor & Satire November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:Stout, Rex [Stout, Rex]

V THE crowd of spectators ganged up in the corridor outside the Goldenrod Barber Shop was twice as big as it had been before, for two reasons. It was just ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-30 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

But even earlier, after the birth of their first child, he had done something almost equally stupid and sentimental. He was a young classics professor from Adelphi down at the ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Yujoo, Han [Yujoo, Han]

21 The weekend passes. Another Monday. The teacher doesn’t speak a word about the stolen journals until the end of the last class. The right side of the Child’s face ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1592-01-01 | Author:Marlowe, Christopher [Marlowe, Christopher]

FAUSTUS. But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned: the serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus. Ah, gentlemen, hear me with patience, and tremble not at my ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1852-07-15 | Author:Stowe, Harriet Beecher [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]

CHAPTER 19 Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions (Continued) Tom, you needn’t get me the horses. I don’t want to go,” she said. “Why not, Miss Eva?” “These things sink into ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-02 | Author:Carrington, Leonora [Carrington, Leonora]

(1937-40) WHITE RABBITS The time has come that I must tell the events which began in 40 Pest Street. The houses, which were reddish black, looked as if they had ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Coetzee, J. M. [Coetzee, J. M.]

Marjorie Garber “We are here tonight,” he informed the audience, “to listen to a lecture.” Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim THE TANNER LECTURES sponsored by the Princeton University Center for Human ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1966-01-03 | Author:Pynchon, Thomas [Pynchon, Thomas]

5 Though her next move should have been to contact Randolph Driblette again, she decided instead to drive up to Berkeley. She wanted to find out where Richard Wharfinger had ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1940-01-01 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

CHAPTER 3 A voice near his foot said, ‘Got a cigarette?’ He drew quickly back and trod on an arm. A voice said imperatively, ‘Water, quick,’ as if whoever it ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1798-01-21 | Author:Brown, Charles Brockden [Brown, Charles Brockden]

CHAPTER XXII. The inhabitants of the Hut received me with a mixture of joy and surprize. Their homely welcome, and their artless sympathy, were grateful to my feelings. In the ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:Lewis, Sinclair [Lewis, Sinclair]

II She disliked “The Girl from Kankakee” even more than she had expected. It narrated the success of a farm-lassie in clearing her brother of a charge of forgery. She ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1977-01-31 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

Dear Arthur: You can’t have it both ways: that Debbie took “a joking tone” or, as she put it, a “purposely superficial … tone” because that best expressed her attitude ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1974-01-08 | Author:Herbert, James [Herbert, James]

Chapter Twelve It became known as ‘Black Monday’ for Londoners. Reports came in at regular intervals all day long; reports of deaths and injuries. The Underground tragedy was the major ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-01 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]

CHAPTER XV WHETHER TOO SLIGHT OR too vague the ties that bind people casually meeting in a hotel at midnight, they possess one advantage at least over the bonds which ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )