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epub, mobi |eng | 1955-01-02 | Author:Graham Greene [Greene, Graham]

Part Two ONE adapts oneself to money much more easily than to poverty: Rousseau might have written that man was born rich and is everywhere impoverished. It gave me great ...
( Category: Contemporary August 30,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1961-01-02 | Author:Graham Greene [Greene, Graham]

2 Mather stood back in the shadow of the doorway. It was worse in a way than anything he'd feared. He put his hand on his revolver. He had only ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 30,2017 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Kakuzo Okakura

V * * * ART APPRECIATION Have you heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp? Once in the hoary ages in the Ravine of Lungmen* stood a ...
( Category: Social Sciences August 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-27 | Author:Drewe, Robert [Drewe, Robert]

WE BURN the police tent without speaking and go back to Bullock Creek. Tired in my bones and head and legs, I feel my organs are all shrinking and withdrawing. ...
( Category: other August 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Nikolai Leskov [Leskov, Nikolai]

10 ‘For a man on a long journey, the nature of his travelling companion is of the first importance. With a good, intelligent companion it’s easier to bear both cold ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Philip Hensher

‘We scratched our other one and put all hopes on your word,’ said the colonel. ‘Why, what is that? Silver Blaze favourite?’ ‘Five to four against Silver Blaze!’ roared the ...
( Category: other August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Philip Hensher

KINGSLEY AMIS Mason’s Life ‘May I join you?’ The medium-sized man with the undistinguished clothes and the blank, anonymous face looked up at Pettigrew, who, glass of beer in hand, ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Wildes, Emma [Wildes, Emma]

Stephen slid over the window sill and slipped into the darkened depths of the room. It smelled like Victoria, he thought immediately, struck by the gentle fragrance of exotic blooms, ...
( Category: Mystery August 28,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Park, Ruth [Park, Ruth]

Chapter 8 In a way, she felt as she had felt when her father went away and left her. Fright, anger and helplessness, the sense of being nobody who could ...
( Category: other August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (epub)

The man suddenly interrupted his singing upon spotting the stranger rushing towards him, pale-faced and with dishevelled hair. Bewildered, Florio asked after Donati. But the gardener had never heard the ...
( Category: other August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-12-06 | Author:Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (mobi)

Descent into the Mines* 1826 Heinrich Heine I found the descent into the two best Klausthal mines, the Dorothea and the Karolina, very interesting, and I would like to describe ...
( Category: other August 28,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2003-03-27 | Author:Dumas, Alexandre [Dumas, Alexandre]

LV MAJOR CAVALCANTI Neither the count nor Baptistin had lied when they told Morcerf that the major from Lucca was to visit, which was Monte Cristo’s excuse for refusing the ...
( Category: Classics August 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Bazan, Emilia & O'Prey, Paul [Bazan, Emilia]

SEVENTEEN To the amazement of all who saw, the marquis had brought the wetnurse to the manor on the front of his saddle, for there had been no other means ...
( Category: Humor & Satire August 28,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-05-26 | Author:Chandler, Robert [Chandler, Robert]

TEFFI (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya, 1872–1952) Teffi was born in St Petersburg into a distinguished family that treasured literature; she and her three sisters all became writers. Her elder sister was ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Katie Reus

Chapter 6 As he parked, Kiernan surveyed the empty lot outside the warehouse Uberto had wanted to meet at. It was close to a rundown marina in a part of ...
( Category: other August 26,2017 )

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