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A View of Delft by Anthony Bailey
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Bailey

Judging by the vanishing point in Vermeer’s mature works, only a seated position would account for the lowered level of his viewpoint; he painted them sitting down, as the artist ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Alberto Manguel

THIS SENSE OF LIVING WITHIN THE MODEL OF THAT which we attempt to reproduce in words and images is everywhere present, taunting us, daring us to try. For example, my ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 13,2018 )
Charlton Heston by Marc Eliot
epub |eng | 2017-02-02 | Author:Marc Eliot

Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, and Roddy McDowall in Planet of the Apes (1968). (Courtesy of Rebel Road Archives) CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN In his first full term as president, to which he ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Literary Life: A Second Memoir by McMurtry Larry
epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:McMurtry, Larry [McMurtry, Larry]

I am sure many writers, when in mid-career, experience these same feelings. You, the writer, will have done enough good work to have acquired some reputation, and yet you haven’t ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook) by Baudelaire Charles
epub |eng | 1970-01-17 | Author:Baudelaire, Charles [Baudelaire, Charles]

XXVIII * * * COUNTERFEIT AS WE WERE leaving the tobacconist’s I saw my friend carefully separating his money; in the left pocket of his waistcoat he slipped all the ...
( Category: European April 13,2018 )
Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy & C. J. Hogarth
epub |eng | 2012-02-21 | Author:Leo Tolstoy & C. J. Hogarth [Tolstoy, Leo & Hogarth, C. J.]

XVII - Hatred * Yes, it was the real feeling of hatred that was mine now—not the hatred of which one reads in novels, and in the existence of which ...
( Category: Words, Language & Grammar April 13,2018 )
Rachmaninoff by Michael Scott
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:Michael Scott

They appeared together at a recital on 24 October 1916 in Moscow, at which she sang the first performance of his new songs, and they repeated the programme in Petrograd ...
( Category: Music April 13,2018 )
Joy Division by Paul Morley
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Paul Morley [Paul Morley]

XXXVIII Article on Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – New Musical Express, 22 November 1980. Andy McCluskey and I are the last two of the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Dick Van Dyke by My Lucky Life In & Out of Show Business
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:My Lucky Life In & Out of Show Business [In, My Lucky Life & Business, Out of Show]

I met Buster Keaton the same way I did Stan. I found out that someone I knew had his phone number and one afternoon I called him up. His wife, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
My Chemical Romance by Reinhardt Haydn
epub |eng | | Author:Reinhardt Haydn

‘It’s important to me, to us, that our audience knows that they don’t have to act in that stupid way that some rock bands want them to.’ – Gerard Way ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Scream by Tama Janowitz
epub |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Tama Janowitz

i buy an apartment In 1987 I had money for the first time, so I bought an apartment. I had saved and saved and finally had forty grand, enough to ...
( Category: Memoirs April 13,2018 )
Hummingbird by Jude Angelini
epub |eng | 2017-07-20 | Author:Jude Angelini

popeye Mom’s been wanting to eat at this restaurant for forever, so that’s what we’re doing. It’s new, they do wood-oven cooking. She can smell the logs burning on the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )
Boy About Town by Tony Fletcher
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:Tony Fletcher [Tony Fletcher]

Number 23: STRANGE TOWN MARK WAS STILL a teenager when he answered my latest Melody Maker ad for a fourth member. (Jeff and Chris had finally accepted that we were ...
( Category: Music April 13,2018 )
Odyssey of an African Opera Singer by Musa Ngqungwana
epub |eng | 2018-01-20 | Author:Musa Ngqungwana

Chapter 11 Singing for Mimi Coertse I had arranged to stay with one of my mother’s cousins, Xisa Ramafoko, in Sunnyside, Pretoria. She and her husband had offered to accommodate ...
( Category: Music April 13,2018 )
The Lives of George Frideric Handel by David Hunter
epub |eng | | Author:David Hunter [Hunter, David]

CHAPTER 6 Self and Health A new and more complex picture of Handel is starting to emerge: cautious, especially where money is concerned; sensitive, not only about his great talent ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 13,2018 )

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