Category: Novels
Rahab
The hall was a long shadow beyond the glow of them standing. He was quiet waiting, not sheer against her: his shaggy coat poured the street’s coldness. She was a dim thing about eyes.
Chapters
1. Part 1
The hall was a long shadow beyond the glow of them standing. He was quiet waiting, not sheer against her: his shaggy coat poured the street’s coldness. She was a dim thing about...
2. Part 2She was the wife of Harry Howland Luve. Pretty clever astounding Fanny Dirk: here’s a riddle for your independence, which we ... your Town ... have had to swallow ever since you...
3. Part 3The quiet crept upon his body. Tucked in his toes, moistened his hands, lay on his mouth. The quiet was warm. Was music. Harry shut his eyes. The wave of the world, booze and st...
4. Part 4“God, let me think!” The words came aloud.--God, let me think! now silent....--Edith? Yes, Edith was flowing alive. But Edith was not herself, not _her_ blood flowing. Edith’s b...
5. Part 5Each night as she lay down to sleep, the question stood before her: Why? A question like a single point of steel piercing so many lives, piercing so many loves, all bleeding-spi...
6. Part 6“I feel you know some things,” Fanny looked at her friend’s long taut hands. They reached for her bag, opened it, took out a box of cigarettes. She offered it, open, to Fanny. “...
7. Part 7--My room, so small, is the casing of my body. Shouldn’t it fit? It must fit to keep me whole. Those gloves that were so much too big, how I froze in them last Winter: how the W...
8. Part 8The music was far away.... “This is a tale of far away, a world I have left and forgotten.” The curtain rose. The actors were clad in costumes of 1840. White Pierrot danced thro...
9. Part 9She felt herself as a sharp weight set in softness. So she was upheld: but she was free. There was a bar between herself....--I am true!... and these warm falsehoods Clara had s...
10. Part 10They came close to Fanny. Her eyes were almost parallel with Tessie’s red mouth which had spoken. She looked up at the straight lips of Susan. On Susan’s neck she saw a birthmar...
11. Part 11“Don’t you know, you come from the South, don’t you?... that gambling and prostitution are illegal in New York? I am an Officer of the New York Police. I am the head of what is...
12. Part 12“Sing then!” said he. His name was Loyden. If he had another name, no one there knew it. “If you’re tired, sing. If you want to go up, sing. If you want to fall back, sing!”