History & Criticism
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Susan Orlean

Plant Crimes Plants disappear all the time in south Florida. So do most other living things. One day after my trip to Kerry’s Bromeliads, after all the Elaines had disappeared, ...
( Category: Orchids March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1985-10-14 | Author:Isak Dinesen

Chapter 5 A FUGITIVE RESTS ON THE FARM There was one traveller who came to the farm, slept there for one night, and walked off not to come back, of ...
( Category: Surrealism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Ernest Hemingway

–13– A Strange Enough Ending The way it ended with gertrude stein was strange enough. we had become very good friends and i had done a number of practical things ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-30 | Author:Mark Doty

A few nights after I wrote those pages, this is what I dreamed: I had to parachute from an airplane in a strange way, sitting in the kind of plastic ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-11-11 | Author:Graham-Dixon, Andrew [Graham-Dixon, Andrew]

Gioan Bagaglia tu no[n] sai un ah le tue pitture sono pituresse volo vedere con esse ch[e] non guadagnarai mai una patacca Ch[e] di cotanto panno da farti un paro ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

The objects strewn at Cupid’s feet and by his side form a dispersed but uniquely haunting still life: a hallucination of things. They allude to the arts, sciences and letters. ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Attenborough, David & Fuller, Errol [Attenborough, David]

Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf and Joseph Smit from G. D. Elliot’s Monograph of the Paradiseidae (1873). Elliot’s Bird of Paradise. Hand-coloured lithograph by William Hart ...
( Category: Plants & Animals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Berger, John [Berger, John]

55 Picasso. Bull, Horse, and Female Matador. 1934 56 Picasso. Sitting Girl and Sleeping Minotaur. 1933 The Minotaur represents the animal in the captivity of an almost human form; it ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Andy Warhol

Tuesday, June 2, 1981 Got up early. Chris was picking me up to go to the Whitney show of that artist who we’ve known for a while, the one influenced ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-10 | Author:Noah Charney

The letter slips between “I” and “we,” likely indicating the author’s fatigue. The ransomer also shifts blame completely away from himself and onto the bishop. The repeated focus on the ...
( Category: True Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Victoria Charles

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( Category: Themes March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Geoff Dyer

Mourning for all mankind? Beyond that it is difficult to say what feelings the memorial evokes. Not pity, not pride, not sadness even. Henry Williamson acknowledged this uncertainty while remaining ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Edmund de Waal

20. heil wien! heil berlin! The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These ...
( Category: Ceramics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Adrian Levy

Paul Enke's book on the search for the Amber Room, published in 1986 'Stolz' throws the book on to the bed and turns back to look down on Kurfurstendamm. Bernsteinzimmer ...
( Category: Criticism March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kathleen Krull

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...
( Category: Renaissance March 25,2014 )