mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:A. S. Byatt

The People in the House in the House There was once a little girl who was very kind to little creatures. She used to make nests and put them out ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-15 | Author:Kate Mosse

I looked down into the still surface of the water. My cheeks were hollow with lack of sleep and my eyes, rimmed with exhaustion, stared back at me in the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Borodale

Early light floods into the workshop as Mr. Blacklock pins the shutters open the next morning. “I must go down to the timber yard,” he says. “Why, sir?” I ask. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Graham Swift

Ray He said, 'So now I know, Raysy,' It was a full day and a half after the operation that wasn't no operation, so he wasn't groggy and slow and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Elizabeth Black

Over time and as his means permitted, he expanded his holdings. At his death, he possessed a residence of rare comforts, among them a French chandelier and the first piano ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Martin Amis

One warm May Saturday (the baby, in recent weeks, had grown from olive-size to prune-size to plum-size to peach-size), Des and Dawn went boating on the Serpentine in Hyde Park. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Stephen Greenblatt

lies on the ground naked, speechless, and utterly helpless as soon as nature has cast it forth with pangs of labor from its mother’s womb into the shores of light. ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Graham Hancock

37 Ibid., pp. 7, 31. 38 World Mythology, p. 139. It should also be noted that, like Samson, Orion was blind— the only blind figure in constellation mythology. See Hamlet’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Timothy Egan

FEAST FOR BIBLIOPHILE REMARKABLE WORK ON RED MAN OF AMERICA That was a Washington Post headline of a story touting “one of the most remarkable and expensive publications ever planned.” ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-04-27 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-15 | Author:Andrew Bridgeford

13 The Tanner's Grandsons The Bayeux Tapestry gives us only a snapshot of the colourful life of Bishop Odo of Bayeux.1 It is a mere cross-section of a long career, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Edward Dolnick

ON SEPTEMBER 14, 1937, Boon sent Bredius a one-sentence letter. He had arrived in Paris with the precious “lamb”—Christ at Emmaus—and had stored it in a vault at the Crédit ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:MacGregor, Neil [MacGregor, Neil]

He made in it great pictures of gold and silver, and a great basin, whose surfacing outside and inside was plates of silver, and he put on it a tree ...

epub |nld | 2012-01-18 | Author:Dominicus [Dominicus]

Egon Schiele Op het gebied van kunst zijn er twee namen die de bezoekers van Wenen het meest aanspreken: Klimt ( pp. 167–168) en Schiele. Voor Egon Schiele (1890–1918) moet ...