Literary
epub |eng | 1943-08-15 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

5 We had arranged to meet at the apartment and have a cocktail before starting. I arrived before Larry. I was taking them to a very smart restaurant and expected ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1982-01-21 | Author:Walker, Alice [Walker, Alice]

DEAR CELIE, At first there was the faintest sound of movement in the forest. A kind of low humming. Then there was chopping and the sound of dragging. Then a ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-23 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

HELP ME, JESUS! My husband needs me with him in his hour of need. And yet, in the morning, again Edna Mae could not lift her head from her pillow. ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-03 | Author:Bellow, Saul [Bellow, Saul]

But I was not thinking of this much, but rather of Mimi in the hospital. I was sure she had gone through with her plan to trick the doctors. Late ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-14 | Author:Walter Mosley [Mosley, Walter]

THE WANDERER {1.} When Socrates Fortlow was released from prison he ran just as if he had gone over the wall. There was no family that wanted to take him ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1962-01-31 | Author:Dick, Philip K. [Dick, Philip K.]

Reaching out, he carefully scratched the notation on his pad out of existence, then burned the paper itself in the ceramic ashtray. There was a knock, and his office door ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

13. YOUNG GIRL’S WISH My first morning in China, I awake in a dark hotel room in Guilin and see a figure leaning over my bed, staring at me with ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1911-01-01 | Author:Burnett, Frances Hodgson [Burnett, Frances Hodgson]

14 A Young Rajah The moor was hidden in mist when the morning came, and the rain had not stopped pouring down. There could be no going out of doors. ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1936-01-30 | Author:Greene, Graham [Greene, Graham]

Chapter 5 1 RAVEN GROPED THROUGH the dark of the small shed till he had found the sacks. He piled them up, shaking them as one shakes a pillow. He ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1905-02-01 | Author:Wharton, Edith [Wharton, Edith]

Alone with her cousin’s kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts. He had kissed her before—but not with another woman on his lips. If he had spared her that she could ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1726-01-01 | Author:Swift, Jonathan [Swift, Jonathan]

THE END OF THE SECOND PART. Part III A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN Chapter I The author sets out on his third voyage. Is taken by ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1877-12-17 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

Chapter XV. Valentin de Bellegarde’s announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile, and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Roth, Philip [Roth, Philip]

6 May 1942–June 1942 Their Country May 22, 1942 Dear Mr. Roth: In compliance with a request from Homestead 42, Office of American Absorption, U.S. Department of the Interior, our ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1948-01-01 | Author:Jackson, Shirley [Jackson, Shirley]

CHAPTER FOUR It was dreadful; they moved in during a hot morning and everyone was there. Harriet Merriam and Marilyn Perlman walked arm in arm up and down the block, ...
( Category: Literary November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Tan, Amy [Tan, Amy]

He had loved me then. He had been so careful to keep his feelings from me. I turned the pages and saw only the blur of my tears. At the ...
( Category: United States November 12,2018 )