epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Greenblatt, Stephen [Greenblatt, Stephen]

The Spanish-born Harvard philosopher George Santayana called this idea—the ceaseless mutation of forms composed of indestructible substances—“the greatest thought2 that mankind has ever hit upon.” • The elementary particles are ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1993-12-31 | Author:Thomas Cahill [Cahill, Thomas]

V A Solid World of Light Holy Ireland Patrick devoted the last thirty years of his life—from, roughly, his late forties to his late seventies—to his warrior children, that they ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ayn Rand

8 Style I: Depictions of Love When I was writing Atlas Shrugged, I spent a long time planning the scene where Francisco comes to Dagny in the country. Many issues ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-05 | Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]

Every year without fail, Saif had led at least one major raid into Byzantine territory. None, however, had been so ambitious as that of the early summer of 960. The ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-11-08 | Author:John Richardson [Richardson, John]

Above: Picabia, Olga, Picasso, and Germaine Everling at Château de Mai, 1925. Photograph by Poupard-Lieussou. Left: Picabia. Mardi Gras (The Kiss), 1925. Ripolin on canvas, 92×73 cm. Private collection. Picabia ...

epub |eng | 1987-02-28 | Author:Gellu Naum [Naum, Gellu]

epub |eng | 2009-04-26 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler [HOOBLER, DOROTHY]

Apollinaire was smoking a short-stemmed pipe and expiating on Petronius and Nero to some rather vulgar-looking people.… He was wearing a stained light-colored suit, and a tiny straw hat was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler [Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas]

It was not long before Apollinaire visited Picasso’s studio, and he later recalled that it was “cluttered with canvases representing mystical harlequins and drawings on which people walked and which ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-10 | Author:Lester, Toby [Lester, Toby]

IT WAS THE moment Leonardo had been waiting for. “When fortune comes,” he would write in about 1490, “seize her firmly by the forelock, for she is bald at the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Susie Hodge [Hodge, Susie]

Although Picasso and Braque’s collaboration initiated Cubism, it was also adopted and developed further by several other painters, including Fernand Léger (1881–1955), Juan Gris (1887–1927), Albert Gleizes (1881–1953) and Jean ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:China Miéville

Chapter Thirty-One Isaac nodded as if this revelation made sense. He prepared to ask her another question, but her eyes were no longer on him. "I knew they’d escaped because ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:Noah Hutchings

1918 (End of Antechamber passage) World War I ends. 1919 (Limestone ends, granite begins) Allies meet to consider international council to end war. 1924 (Center of granite floor in the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:David Mark

MIDNIGHT. DEAD ON. MCAVOY RUNS across the wet grass, mud splashing his trousers and lapping at his boots, acid belching into his throat. He can hear dogs barking. Raised voices. ...

mobi |eng | 2001-04-15 | Author:William Boyd

Histoire Vache “So you are still a virgin,” Pierre-Etienne said triumphantly, stubbing out his cigarette. It had to come out, Eric thought. They had been talking earnestly about sex all ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Martin Amis

“Hey. Hey! Ain’t no damn use you sneaking out like that. Have you read my novel yet?” “Yes,” said Rodney. Rodney said Yes, not because it was true or anything ...