Fiction : Dramatic Fiction

Having descended from a long line of indomitable, good-humored Scots, Hayden MacBride sees no reason to take his own death lying down. In fact, he now spends his days crashing funerals for the free food and insight into the Great Beyond. Then he meets Rosamond, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders. more...

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W.R. Burnett knew, first-hand, of the world he describes in his terse, vivid 1929 novel with a brutally ironic title - Little Caesar. Burnett worked as reporter in Chicago in the 1920s, and he observed the nobodies willing to cheat and kill their way to being somebodies. The novel's hero, Cesare Bandello, known as Rico, is a 'gutter Macbeth', a bad guy who claws his way up through the Chicago gang, circa 1928. Though the very idea of Rico is inseparable from Edward G. Robinson's star-making performance in the 1930 film version of Little Caesar, Burnett's novel is an fuller experience, inspired in many ways by Machiavelli's The Prince. There is nothing heroic about Rico. He is not dashing or even an especially talented man, except that he seems to have a laser-like focus on what he wants. That immediately sets him apart from the slovenly hoods who surround him. His rise above them is easy to imagine, but as the novel's title suggests, so is his fall. more...

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A distraught Davis Banks arrives home for his mother’s funeral. Davis teaches poetry at a small college. He loves words — but not himself. His father had died some years before, and now Davis discovers a lot of little things in his mother’s house that don’t seem right. more...

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This Library contains the full text of the Works of Mark Twain (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS). 1601THE $30,000 BEQUEST AND OTHER SHORT STORIES (30 works)THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNTHE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERALONZO FITZ AND OTHER STORIES (16 works)THE AMERICAN CLAIMANTA BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHYCARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUTCHRISTIAN SCIENCEA CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURTTHE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR AND OTHER WHIMSICAL SKETCHES (16 works)A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVEESSAYS ON PAUL BOURGETEXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN STORMFIELD'S VISIT TO HEAVENFENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCESFOLLOWING THE EQUATORTHE GILDED AGEGOLDSMITH'S FRIEND ABROAD AGAINA HORSE'S TALEHOW TO TELL A STORY AND OTHERSIN DEFENSE OF HARRIET SHELLEYINNOCENTS ABROADIS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHYLIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPITHE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG AND OTHER STORIES (19 works)MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS 1853-1910: 6 volumes (462)MARK TWAIN'S SPEECHES (102)THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGERON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYINGPERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARCTHE PRINCE AND THE PAUPERTHOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINSRAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSIONROUGHING ITSKETCHES NEW AND OLD (63 works)THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANTTOM SAWYER ABROADTOM SAWYER, DETECTIVETHE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSONA TRAMP ABROADWHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (23 works more...

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Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible: Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes the classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page. The most horrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever written, it will make you grip your seat in terror. more...

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