Strange Conquest, by Alfred Neumann
Excerpt They pushed through the roadblock and ran along the houses in two columns without losing a single man. They received fire, but it was irregular, inaccurate, and seemingly hesitant. Two men were lost at …
The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Comments · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt “Atomics is a very intricate theorem and can be worked out with algebra but you would want to take …
The Lake, by George Moore
Excerpt He turned into the woods and walked aimlessly, trying to escape from his thoughts, and to do so he admired the pattern of the leaves, the flight of the birds, and he stopped by …
Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn
Excerpt There’s always a bad moment, Howard knows, after the porter’s unlocked your room, switched everything on, drawn the curtains, and gone away with a huge tip because you had only a folder of fresh …
Frank Harris, by Hugh Kingsmill
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Other Comments · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt To keep the Fortnightly subdued and reassuring in tone was comparatively easy. But to lower himself to the …
Other Ranks, by W. V. Tilsley
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Other Comments · Locate a Copy Excerpt Close on now —must be. they’d be getting tea ready at home. Had they his field card yet? Fulshaw’s eyes were brilliant …
Moorish Girl’s Unappreciated Books Archive
Moorish Girl’s Unappreciated Books Archive Since late 2004, Laila Lalami, author of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, has been “asking readers, writers, editors, critics, librarians, or booksellers to weigh in on a book they loved, …
Solitary Confinement, by Christopher Burney (1952)
Excerpt I soon learned that variety is not the spice, but the very stuff of life. We need the constant ebb and flow of wavelets of sensation, thought, perception, action, and emotion, lapping on the …
View of Dawn in the Tropics, by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Excerpt The comandante gave him a story to read. In it a man would go into the bathroom and spend hours locked inside it. The wife worried about what her husband was doing in the …
The Wet Flanders Plain, by Henry Williamson
Excerpt The Salient Now — and Then Flatness of green fields, no tall trees anywhere, clusters of red-tield, red-bricked farms and houses, and a dim village-line on the far horizon, only very slightly higher, it …
Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman
Excerpt David watched the door close: gently, smoothly, as though drawn by a magnet, the steel door drew closer to its steel frame. Finally they became one. High up, behind a rectangular metal grating in …
David Hume, by J. Y. T. Greig
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Other Comments · Locate a Copy Excerpt His duties as Librarian cannot have been very onerous. He did the necessary jobs, or some of them: he ordered new books, …
High Water, by Richard Bissell
Excerpt When you are out on the boats you think a lot about things that are over on the land, things you never bother to think about at all when you are there. The girl …
Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens
· Excerpt · Comments · Editor’s Comments · Reviews · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt Colonel Ross did not have the facts on whatever other troubles Colonel Woodman had or thought he …
The Eighth Day, by Thornton Wilder
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Comments · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt From the first, Lansing admired John Ashley and imitated him, stumbingly. He went so far as to pretend that …
De Vriendt Goes Home, by Arnold Zweig
Excerpt Irmin, who the fateful news had at least reached, looked at towering figure in that low-roofed room, throwing a doubled shadow on the floor and walls. His eyes rested for a long while on …
Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich
Excerpt 1 She was very slim and light. She was always tense, often atremble, and never failed to give the impression of almost terrible power wrapped in a thin fragile blue-grey skin. The materials that …
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, by Henry Howarth Bashford (first published anonymously)
Excerpt Nor shall I forget the thrill, perhaps a trifle guilty, with which I discovered, soon after I was sixteen, how to descend from a vehicle in motion without the sacrifice of an erect position. …
Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition and Proposed Canal, by E. G. Squier
From The New York Times, 19 April 1998: Traveling Companions By STEPHEN KINZER … One of my favorites is a forgotten classic called Nicaragua: Its People, Scenery, Monuments, Resources, Condition and Proposed Canal, by E. …
A network of roads, from Jew Süss, by Lion Feuchtwanger
from the opening: A network of roads, like veins, was strung over the land, interlacing, branching, dwindling to nothing. They were neglected, full of stones and holes, torn up, overgrown, bottomless swamp in wet weather, …