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Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-12-15 | Author:Michael Ondaatje [Ondaatje, Michael]

THE PRODIGAL HARBOUR I arrived in a plane but love the harbour. Dusk. And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, ...
( Category: Biographical March 29,2014 )
A Scholar's Tale : Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe by Hartman Geoffrey
epub |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Hartman, Geoffrey [Hartman, Geoffrey]

This was the terror before the terror to come. Given such basic queasiness, did it matter that Romanticism had been revalued, philosophical texts and existential issues opened to linguistic analysis, ...
( Category: Criticism & Theory March 27,2014 )
Walden Or Life In The Woods by Henry David Thoreau
epub | | 2009-10-04 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...
( Category: State & Local March 27,2014 )
With or Without You A Memoir by Domenica Ruta
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Domenica Ruta [Ruta, Domenica]

SOMETIME DURING MY SENIOR year at Andover, my mother told me not to come home for the next few weekends. Why? I asked her. She had started shooting heroin again ...
( Category: Authors March 27,2014 )
Celebrations by Maya Angelou
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

I was dragged by braids On a sandy beach I was pulled near you But beyond your reach You were bound and gagged When you heard me cry Your spirit ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 26,2014 )
Roughing It by Mark Twain
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Mark Twain

* * * CHAPTER XLV. The "flush times" held bravely on. Something over two years before, Mr. Goodman and another journeyman printer, had borrowed forty dollars and set out from ...
( Category: Classics March 26,2014 )
The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * XXXI. * * * The Nore sand remains covered at low-water, and never seen by human eye; but the Nore is a name to conjure with visions ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Yondering by Louis L'Amour
epub |eng | 1980-10-01 | Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]

AND PROUDLY DIE * * * In 1983 dad and I took an afternoon off, he from writing and I from editing a student film, and drove down to San ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Pastoral by Nevil Shute
epub, mobi |eng | 1964-01-02 | Author:Nevil Shute [Shute, Nevil]

He sealed the letter and addressed it. The W.A.A.F. sergeant put her head in at the door as he tossed it into the OUT basket. “Sergeant Phillips is here, sir,” ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-08-05 | Author:Pat Conroy [Conroy, Pat]

From the halls of Montezuma, To the hills of Tennessee, We’re the biggest bunch of assholes, That the world will ever see. First to beat our wives and children, Then ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Tramp royale by Robert A. Heinlein
epub | | 2009-06-09 | Author:Robert A. Heinlein [Heinlein, Robert A.]

Sure, sure, I'm just a sorehead tourist who could not manage to get on the train he wanted—but note this: South Africa has plenty of coal and exports it. But ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * Chapter IV. It must not be supposed that in setting forth the memories of this half-hour between the moment my uncle left my room till we met ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * End of Project Gutenberg's Etext of A Personal Record by Conrad * * * A Personal Record from http://manybooks.net/
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Rimbaud in Java: the Lost Voyage by Jamie James
epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Jamie James [James, Jamie]

3 Sic. The word refers to his satirical cartoons, including the one reproduced on the next page. As I write, “Janbons-d’hommes” appears in the electronically searchable universe uniquely in Delahaye’s ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
Spine Intact, Some Creases by Victor J. Banis
epub |eng | 2008-02-28 | Author:Victor J. Banis [Banis, Victor J.]

* * * * * * Having spent much of a chapter discussing sales figures, I must now emphatically point out that sales numbers or the lack thereof do not ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )

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