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The Friendship by Adam Sisman
epub |eng | 2006-07-14 | Author:Adam Sisman [Sisman, Adam]

From ‘Tintern Abbey’: ‘Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her …’ * For some reason Coleridge did not take the opportunity to call on the Morning ...
( Category: Authors July 7,2020 )
Miss Aluminum by Susanna Moore
epub |eng | | Author:Susanna Moore

That summer, too, the French model and actress Capucine lived at Connie’s house while she secretly visited her lover, the producer Charlie Feldman, who was dying in a nearby hospital. ...
( Category: Authors July 7,2020 )
Have Tux Will Travel by Pete Martin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Pete Martin [Martin, Pete]

Chapter 14 SPEAKING OF a high finish, I have a nice, shiny high finish of scar tissue on my carcass to remind me of some of the films I've made. ...
( Category: Rich & Famous July 7,2020 )
A Frozen Woman by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:Annie Ernaux

I had believed in the lycée, as a land of liberty, equality, fraternity. Now, here in class, the twenty-six girls in pink smocks seem absolutely foreign to me, more strange ...
( Category: Women July 6,2020 )
Shame by Annie Ernaux
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:Annie Ernaux

The question of whether or not I liked Mademoiselle L is irrelevant. She was the most educated person I knew. She was a different class of woman, quite unlike my ...
( Category: Authors July 6,2020 )
Simply Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Orwin, Donna Tussing]

“Church and State” (1879) A short essay written early in Tolstoy’s quest for religious certainty and not published until much later already attacks the established Church in sharp, precise, and ...
( Category: Russian July 6,2020 )
Three Brothers by Yan Lianke
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Yan Lianke [Lianke, Yan]

3. FAVORITISM That year, I started school. Even after becoming a student, however, I still looked forward to when First Uncle, after having left the village to sell socks, would ...
( Category: Authors July 6,2020 )
Signatures by David Pryce-Jones
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:David Pryce-Jones

FREDERIC V. GRUNFELD Berlin TIME-LIFE BOOKS 1977 SON RULLAN, Fred Grunfeld’s house, was an abandoned monastery in the Majorcan countryside near Deya. The road to it petered out into an ...
( Category: Journalists July 6,2020 )
Groundwork by Paul Auster
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Auster

* * * Three months after the flop of the play, my son was born. Watching Daniel come into the world was a moment of supreme happiness for me, an ...
( Category: Authors July 6,2020 )
Peeling the Onion by Günter Gras
epub |eng | 2007-09-14 | Author:Günter Gras [Gras, Günter]

THE THIRD HUNGER FROM AN EARLY age it was impossible to deal with, whether by practising ascetic moderation and limiting myself to black-and-white or by yielding to the addiction and ...
( Category: Authors July 6,2020 )
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
epub |eng | 1999-07-01 | Author:Joyce Johnson [Johnson, Joyce]

There was a dark radiance about Elise when she was happy — you could always hear it immediately in her voice, like a light turned on behind the words. “Allen’s ...
( Category: Beat Generation July 6,2020 )
The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble
epub |eng | | Author:Margaret Drabble

XXVIII I used to think until quite recently that one would grow out of mental pain. One would simply become, towards the end, too old and too numb to feel ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects July 5,2020 )
The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961-1963 by Gail Godwin
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Gail Godwin [Godwin, Gail]

And that’s about it. James came by bringing a Christmas gift, a Scots beret. We spent Xmas Eve Day together, inflicting our silences on each other. The upshot of all ...
( Category: Journalists July 5,2020 )
Mostly Water by Mary Odden
epub |eng | | Author:Mary Odden

Canned Peaches Patsy says get the ripe fruit from the tree right before you start. The peaches should be a little firm, she says—not green and not too ripe either. ...
( Category: Country & Folk July 5,2020 )
Easter Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion by Michael Patrick MacDonald
epub |eng | 2008-03-03 | Author:Michael Patrick MacDonald [MacDonald, Michael Patrick]

“FORGET ABOUT IT NOW,” Grandpa kept repeating, even though I wasn’t the one bringing it up. “Forget it ever happened at all.” That’s what he’d been saying every time I ...
( Category: Authors July 5,2020 )

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