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The Banished Immortal by Ha Jin
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Ha Jin

The poem outraged many local Confucianists, who regarded themselves as capable men, truly learned and virtuous. Their outcries were so persistent and overbearing that Li Bai was forced to withdraw ...
( Category: Historical January 15,2019 )
Bluff City by Preston Lauterbach
epub |eng | 2018-11-29 | Author:Preston Lauterbach

As darkness fell on August 10, 1967, Ernest Withers stood on the sidewalk outside Centenary Methodist, Jim Lawson’s church. He sported a fresh haircut, a gold-plated watch, and a neat ...
( Category: Americas January 15,2019 )
JRR Tolkien by Colin Duriez
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Colin Duriez

8 Leeds and dragons Leeds University lacked the bright, ancient splendour of Oxford. The sooty air from its manufacturing industry made its mock Gothic Victorian buildings grimy. A short walk ...
( Category: Science Fiction January 14,2019 )
Bill Monroe by Tom Ewing
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Ewing

HUTCHENS: One morning, Bill came out to the bus where I was staying and said, “Danny is coming down this morning. I was supposed to meet him at eleven o'clock ...
( Category: Music January 14,2019 )
Bernard Malamud by Aarons Victoria; Aarons Victoria; Canales Gustavo Sanchez
epub |eng | | Author:Aarons, Victoria; Aarons, Victoria; Canales, Gustavo Sanchez

NOTES 1.All translations of target texts, censorship documents, and names of Spanish institutions are mine. Likewise, all emphases within quotations are mine. 2.On the figure of Maurice Samuel and the ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 13,2019 )
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:J M Coetzee [J. M. Coetzee]

FOURTEEN A NEW DAY. Ettinger telephones, offering to lend them a gun ‘for the meanwhile’. ‘Thank you,’ he replies. ‘We’ll think about it.’ He gets out Lucy’s tools and repairs ...
( Category: Contemporary January 13,2019 )
Born for the Road by Nathan Carter
epub |eng | 2018-08-12 | Author:Nathan Carter

16. Love, Fans and Friendship The price of fame – or life on the road, at least – is the difficulty in maintaining and sustaining long-term friendships and relationships outside ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 13,2019 )
A Life in Letters by George Orwell
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]

‘Orwell and the Stinkers’: A Correspondence 29 June 1945 Tribune On 29 June 1945, Tribune published a short review by Subramaniam 1 of Million: Second Collection,2 edited by John Singer. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence January 10,2019 )
Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader by Randy L. Schmidt
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Randy L. Schmidt [Schmidt, Randy L.]

On Missed Hits Several songs have come in that have been very big records—[songs] that I listened to and said could be a hit, but I really didn’t like. So ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 8,2019 )
Hollywood's Eve by Lili Anolik
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Lili Anolik

* * * I. Beth Nanville is, like every other character in Slow Days, a real person. Her name was Peg Thorsdale, and she was the best friend of Petey ...
( Category: Pop Culture January 8,2019 )
Ernst Toller and German Society by Ellis Robert;
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Ellis, Robert;

Oppressed by the disheartening experience that so harassed and bewildered him, Toller gave dramatic expression to his inner conflict in Masse Mensch, “one of the plays that made expressionism famous.”[187] ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays January 3,2019 )
The Wrong Dog Dream by Jane Vandenburgh
epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Jane Vandenburgh

( Category: Professionals & Academics January 3,2019 )
Just Living by Author
epub |eng | 2018-12-29 | Author:Author

( Category: Essays & Correspondence December 30,2018 )
Rock-and-Roll Woman by Meredith Ochs
epub |eng | | Author:Meredith Ochs

A photo shoot for Creem magazine, 1981. CYNDI LAUPER BORN: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper / June 22, 1953 / New York City Cyndi Lauper in concert, 1984. INFLUENCES: the Beatles, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature December 30,2018 )
100 Great Guitarists and the Gear That Made Them Famous by Dave Rubin
epub |eng | 2018-09-03 | Author:Dave Rubin

JAMES HETFIELD © Marty Temme James Alan Hetfield (1963– ) was a Southern California outsider who started playing at age 14 and found solace in the music of Aerosmith. Answering ...
( Category: Music December 30,2018 )

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