epub |eng | 2007-09-26 | Author:Bliss Broyard [BROYARD, BLISS]

A white reporter from the Picayune (a paper that didn’t usually favor black people) was assigned to cover the horrors of school integration. Instead he found “white ladies teaching negro ...

epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Erica Jong [Jong, Erica]

The home in Big Sur came to Henry in an almost magical way. He described the process to Anaïs Nin: I told you I am getting a piece of property—a ...

epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Christopher Isherwood [Isherwood, Christopher]

TEN On March 26, 1934, Christopher left London to rejoin Heinz in Amsterdam. Thus he symbolically rejected Kathleen’s England. But this short journey was to be only the first phase ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-06 | Author:Brenda Wineapple [Wineapple, Brenda]

CHAPTER TWENTY This Farther Flight And England, the land of my ancestors! Once I had fancied that my sleep would not be quiet in the grave until I should return, ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Terry Helwig

THAT EVENING, Daddy dredged fresh-caught trout in cornmeal and tossed the filets into a cast-iron skillet crackling with bacon grease, which we stored in an old Folgers tin. Mama covered ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jane Smiley

In January 1854, some six months after the completion of Bleak House, Dickens realized that the sales of Household Words had fallen precipitously. Bradbury and Evans asked him to compose ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:John Curran

Circumstances of Lily’s killing Writes (against husband’s advice) to Dr. K–He when he comes to see G[iles] and G[wenda] finds Marple–brings her letter–says he has asked her to come on ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:Piers Dudgeon [Piers Dudgeon]

Her thinking on nationalist politics in the equally traditional country of Wales was, significantly, to keep the political and religious institutions out of the picture. She had many heated arguments ...

epub |eng, eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

Only a few weeks after I’d returned from the Greenes’ and had begun to spend my days moping at home, with nothing much to look forward to beyond another installment ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:A. Scott Berg

In his piece for the Harvard Library Bulletin Perkins wrote, “It is said that Tolstoi never willingly parted with the manuscript of War and Peace. One could imagine him working ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Wole Soyinka

EVEN WITHOUT THE rebuff by Vatsa’s fate, the trio of literary “elder statesmen” knew that any intervention by them, after the next attempt to topple Babangida, in 1990, was doomed ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Frank, Joseph

Crime and Punishment came to birth only when, in November 1865, Dostoevsky shifted from a first-person to a third-person narrator. This was the culmination of a long struggle whose vestiges ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Isak Dinesen [Dinesen, Isak]

THE WILD CAME TO THE AID OF THE WILD My manager during the war had been buying up oxen for the army. He told me that he had then, down ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Jonathan Franzen

My parents met two years after Pearl Harbor, in the fall of 1943, and within a few months they were exchanging cards and letters. My father worked for the Great ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:A. E. Hotchner [Hotchner, A. E.]

Chapter Nine Key West ♦ 1955 On the morning of July 3rd I flew to Miami, where I caught the small afternoon plane to Key West and took a taxi ...