Arts & Literature
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Andy Rooney

APOLOGIZING FOR APOLOGIZING He didn’t mean to do it, but President Bush has made the United States the most detested nation in the world. He displays what is seen by ...
( Category: Humor March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Deni Béchard

Outside the snack bar window, the fog broke beneath occasional rain, but the sun remained caught in mist, like a dull, fat fly in a web. “How long will you ...
( Category: Parenting March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Lydia Lunch [Lunch, Lydia]

* * * Johnny crawls into bed bloody and beer-stained. He’s cut himself again. I pretend I’m still sleeping. He feels closer to me, safer, he relaxes when I’m half ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 3,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Julie Phillips

CHAPTER 26: FIRST CONTACT (1969) There does seem to be a surprise when people just speak honestly. […] It always startles me because I can’t imagine what value non-communicating communication ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Madeleine L'engle

3 Our youngest child, when he first became conscious of vocabulary, often did violence to words in absurd little ways which delighted us. Hugh and I listened seriously, lest we ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Lucan,

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Poetry March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Joseph Roisman

FIGURE 12 The Athlit ram. A bronze ram of a trireme or a larger ship was found on the coast of Athlit, Israel, and is currently on display at the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

Sept. 25. A very fine and warm afternoon after a cloudy morning. Carry Aunt and Sophia a-barberrying to Conantum. Saw two marsh hawks skimming low over the meadows and another, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-19 | Author:Jessica Mitford

WEDNESDAY Those in the know (the old-timers) tell me that by Wednesday one is for some reason at one’s lowest ebb. I can see why: the miraculous shedding of weight ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-11 | Author:Aleksander Wat

23. READING PROUST IN LUBYANKA. MACHIAVELLI AND STALIN. RÉINVENTER LE POÈTE. This chapter is made up of taped sections, a separate sketch found in Wat’s papers, and a part of ...
( Category: Historical March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-07-12 | Author:Bernadette Murphy [Murphy, Bernadette]

My dearest, I received sad news today, Vincent is gravely ill, I don’t know what’s wrong, but I shall have to go there as my presence is required…of course I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-17 | Author:E. E. Cummings [Cummings, E. E.]

1. THE GARDEN OF EDEN . . . before the dawn of history . . . CHAPTER I The king took off his hat and looked at it. Instantly an ...
( Category: United States February 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-22 | Author:Roger Lundin [Lundin, Roger]

The poem tells of the butterfly’s flight as it flutters in a field “Where Men made Hay —” and of how it struggles “hard/With an opposing Cloud —.” The poem’s ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Ronald Bergan [Bergan, Ronald]

During the making of La Bête humaine, the script, which Jean considered fairly superficial initially, kept being reworked and brought closer, he felt, to the poetry rather than the naturalism ...
( Category: Arts & Literature February 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Stanley Wells [Wells, Stanley]

Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V After his sequence of history plays about Henry VI and Richard III, often referred to as the first tetralogy, Shakespeare mined English history ...
( Category: History & Criticism February 24,2018 )