Literary
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Buckley

– CHAPTER 29 – Doctor Pell Mrs. Pell answered the door. She stared at the three bedraggled people before her. Then, squinting at Huncks, his shirt caked stiff with blood, ...
( Category: United States May 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:France, Anatole;

CHAPTER XIX THE GARDENER’S STORY, CONTINUED “HEN men had learned to cultivate the earth, to herd cattle, to enclose their holy places within walls, and to recognise the gods by ...
( Category: Classics May 3,2018 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

The Weight of Stones Ibn Hakim began to stir and groan, and the dye workers crept out of their hiding places. Rawiya tried to lift Bakr, but his body was ...
( Category: Genre Fiction May 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 1956-05-03 | Author:Edwin O'Connor [O’Connor, Edwin]

Nine IT was the next night that Adam, at last, told Maeve his news. They had spent the evening quietly at home, and now, in bed, as she lay close ...
( Category: Genre Fiction May 3,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2018-04-24 | Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

* * * — For dinner the next night, Ed drove again. The decor of the restaurant seemed self-conscious—tiny multicolored tiles on the walls of the dining room, a sink ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

Then I was at his side every day, his darling and delight, playing in his presence continually, playing on the earth, when he had finished it, while my delight was ...
( Category: Science Fiction May 3,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Mikhail Sholokhov

Chapter Ten Nineteen-sixteen. October. Night. Rain and wind. The trenches in the alder-grown marshes of Polesie. Barbed-wire entanglements in front. A freezing slush in the trenches. The wet sheet-iron of ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Mischa Berlinski

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire! Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Remold it nearer to the Heart’s Desire. I told the judge that I was ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nikolai Chernyshevsky

xvii. If an outsider had come to consult with Kirsanov about the position in which he found himself when he came to his senses, and if Kirsanov had been a ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Kushner

* * * I was exiting work exchange when I ran into the GED teacher, G. Hauser. I had gotten into a scuffle in work exchange, where they said I ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kerry Andrew

Your look always darkened, rain on stone, when you spoke of your mother. She never liked me. I knew it even from afar, by the way your voice sounded like ...
( Category: Literary May 2,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

"And Bosh from Berlin," added Irais. Minora stared. "I don't think those two last ones would do," she said, "because it is not to be a facetious book. But your ...
( Category: Classics May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-01 | Author:Lionel Shriver [Lionel Shriver]

Repossession ON FIRST VIEWING the two-story semidetached on Lansing Terrace, Helen Rutledge dismissed outright the absurd impression that she was not welcome here. She was a sensible young woman—all right, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies May 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein & Michael Z. Williamson [Heinlein, Robert A. & Williamson, Michael Z.]

Max did not see Sam for more than a week after he moved up to Baker deck. Even then the encounter was chance; he ran across him outside the Purser’s ...
( Category: Science Fiction April 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-01 | Author:Jane Robins

21 I’m folding my orange scarf around my head, trying to make it look authentically Islamic. It takes a few attempts, and I only get it right after watching a ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense April 30,2018 )