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Exile's Return by Malcolm Cowley & Donald W. Faulkner
epub |eng | 1994-12-01 | Author:Malcolm Cowley & Donald W. Faulkner [Cowley, Malcolm]

4: Significant Gesture During the last three weeks before sailing for America, I wrote no letters. I was much too excited to write letters; I had never, in fact, spent ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 5,2018 )
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips
epub |eng | 2017-09-13 | Author:Caryl Phillips

Quite honestly, I can’t understand that the Dutch, who are such a good, honest, upright people, should judge us like this, we, the most oppressed, the unhappiest, perhaps the most ...
( Category: Sociology April 5,2018 )
The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Mary Karr

CHAPTER 8 After they took Mother Away, I sank into a fierce lonesomeness for her that I couldn’t paddle out of into other things. Nor did anyone come into it ...
( Category: Memoirs April 5,2018 )
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1 by Norman Sherry
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was: Honoured Madame, In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
The Splendid Things We Planned A Family Portrait by Blake Bailey
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Blake Bailey

I ONLY HAVE a few fleeting impressions of Scott from the mid-eighties, though we didn’t entirely lose touch. I saw him over the holidays, or got the odd letter. Soon ...
( Category: Memoirs April 4,2018 )
Laughing in the Dark by Chonda Pierce
epub |eng | 2007-04-04 | Author:Chonda Pierce

* * * I was so glad to see that the driver was not my dad, but my father’s second wife—not the third wife with the children, but the wife ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
epub |eng | 1996-03-07 | Author:Quentin Bell

The catastrophes at Charleston had in fact involved Virginia in a great deal of fatiguing exertion at a time when she was not at all well. She could not resist, ...
( Category: Regional U.S April 4,2018 )
Dancing with the Enemy by Paul Glaser
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Glaser

Rosie’s barrack (photo taken by Rosie in 1953) Everyone lost interest in exercising and the cabaret, and with nothing to do boredom returned and some were inclined to passivity. It ...
( Category: World April 4,2018 )
Across the Creek by Jim Faulkner
epub |eng | 1986-04-04 | Author:Jim Faulkner

Colonel W. C. Falkner John W.T. Falkner Sailie Murry Williams, and Holland Wilkins John Faulkner Maud Falkner John Faulkner home, Oxford Dean Faulkner, brother of William Faulkner Nan Faulkner John ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 4,2018 )
The Reading Group by Unknown
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-02-08 | Author:Unknown

Susan ‘Mrs…?’ ‘Yes?’ ‘It’s Giles Higson. I’m the manager at The Cedars. We have met.’ ‘Yes. Hello.’ Tall and a little stooped, with damp palms and a limp handshake. ‘Is ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
What are the Blind Men Dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Noemi Jaffe

FAMILY When we arrived at the camp, my mother had been trying to hide her two nephews under her coat. Her sister had gone mad on the journey there. The ...
( Category: World April 4,2018 )
12 Cocktails Good and True by Nigel Bob Collins
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-01-20 | Author:Nigel Bob Collins

La Fee Verte. The Pegu Club, Rangoon, Burma. A 1910 postcard. 5. PEGU CLUB. In his 1899 travel log, “From Sea to Sea”, Rudyard Kipling wrote: “There must be a ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
Why the Grateful Dead Matter by Michael Benson
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Benson

*That marketing strategy continues today. If you haven’t already, visit the website www.dead.net, and subscribe to their monthly bulletin, which shows up in your morning e-mail like a cup of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )
Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power by Hertog Susan
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Hertog, Susan [Hertog, Susan]

This restless, dynamic, overcharged, demanding personality, which is you, becomes intensified to the point of madness. It is energy completely explosive and completely off track. In our early marriage it ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics April 4,2018 )
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault
epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Raymond Arsenault [Arsenault, Raymond]

Prior to the planning, however, the organizers faced the task of gaining permission to use the Memorial for such an unprecedented purpose. Here Walter White proved to be the indispensable ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 4,2018 )

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