Literary
epub, mobi |eng | 1993-01-15 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Richard Pevear [Dostoyevsky, Fyodor & Pevear, Richard]

part one: underground i. Collegiate assessor was the eighth of the fourteen ranks in the Imperial Russian civil service, equivalent to the military rank of major. The narrator had attained ...
( Category: Classics September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kazuo Ishiguro [Ishiguro, Kazuo]

THE CAFE HAD CLOSED by the time I came down from the hills. Maggie and Geoff looked exhausted. Maggie said it had been their busiest day yet and seemed pleased ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Franz Kafka & Joyce Crick [Kafka, Franz & Crick, Joyce]

In the Penal Colonyi “IT’S AN EXCEPTIONAL APPARATUS,” the officer said to the world traveler and, with a certain admiration, surveyed the apparatus that was, after all, quite familiar to ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-05 | Author:Sarah Dunant [Dunant, Sarah]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Venice, mid-1530s On Thursday, my lady takes no visitors, for she is busy about her beauty. She rises at first light, and with the help of her maid, ...
( Category: British & Irish September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-09 | Author:Edna O'Brien [O’BRIEN, EDNA]

Monday We went. Effie greeted us and saw us into the drawing room, where Mrs. Coughlan sat upright on a two-seater sofa with gilt-edged arms. She wore green georgette and ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Mortimer [Mortimer, John]

Chapter Seventeen ‘Good news! You’ve got Sir Percy Blakeney.’ Dennis, the dentist, picked up the spectacles that hung round his neck, elevated them to his nose and looked at me ...
( Category: Contemporary September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Mccracken, Elizabeth [Mccracken, Elizabeth]

In earlier years, Sylvia had been a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other person. When disasters happened (her mother had taught her) you strode firmly in the opposite direction, because calamity followed catastrophe followed disaster. ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Coffey, Billy

7 Leah sat at the end of the sofa in his office. A ball of thick tissues rested against her nose but could not stem the tears. They trickled down ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Thompson, Ted [Thompson, Ted]

3 Anders figured he knew how it would all go down. Larry would know a guy, probably a kid Tommy’s age, a hedgie who worked from a laptop in a ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:Eric Red

Backs to her in their saddles, out of earshot of the girl behind them, the hard men shared a smirk. “Good luck is right, because none of us got any ...
( Category: Fantasy September 11,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2007-05-08 | Author:Rebecca Stott

11th November, 1668. Wednesday: Richard Herring the sonne of Alderman Herring draper, did drowne himself as it is thought, betweene 6 and 7 in the morning before it was light ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 1992-04-04 | Author:Annie Proulx [Proulx, Annie]

He dug with Wulff off and on for three summers. Wulff showed him what he claimed were the tricks of the trade. ‘Two rules, Blood. Get the fossil out of ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-17 | Author:Kem Nunn [Nunn, Kem]

CONTENTS Chapter 1: Chance and the summer of love Chapter 2: The Printz collection Chapter 3: Jaclyn Chapter 4: D Chapter 5: A fool for love Chapter 6: The office ...
( Category: Murder September 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Annie Proulx [Annie Proulx]

Trois jours après ma mort They were nearing the village now, past the gas station at the crossroads. “Wait, wait, wait, wait. What is this?” Onesiphore pointed at a building ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Kelly Eileen Hake

CHAPTER 20 Say something! Desta couldn’t figure whether the voice in her head and the voice in her heart joined forces to yell at her or if one of them ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )