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Alamein to Zem Zem by Keith Douglas
epub |eng | 2014-04-24 | Author:Keith Douglas [Douglas, Keith]

I wondered how this specious treatment of awkward situations would satisfy his constituents after the war, and if he would be able to satisfy them with a couple of stock ...
( Category: World War II March 23,2020 )
Spider Eaters by Yang Rae
epub |eng | | Author:Yang, Rae

15 Semi-transparent Nights If I could fall asleep in the middle of a street far away from home in 1966, how could I suffer from insomnia the next year when ...
( Category: Asian March 23,2020 )
Why Trilling Matters by Adam Kirsch
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Adam Kirsch

6 “howl” and the visionary gleam If Wordsworth, for Trilling, represents the wisdom of passiveness, then the poet who best represents the modern desire for rebellion and unmasking, for the ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Faber & Faber by Toby Faber
epub |eng | 2019-03-21 | Author:Toby Faber [Toby Faber]

T. S. Eliot to Charles Monteith, 17 November 1952 I could arrange lunch during the following week – I am pretty well engaged up till then – but as I ...
( Category: Strings March 22,2020 )
Voyage Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Xavier de Maistre [Howard, Richard; de Maistre, Joseph; Sartarelli, Stephen]

CHAPTER XI Once I had recovered somewhat from the distraction occasioned me by the sight of my artificial dove, the pain of the bump I had received began to make ...
( Category: Authors March 22,2020 )
Memories of Mount Qilai by Mu Yang
epub |eng | 2015-01-12 | Author:Mu Yang

I found myself submerged between a mysterious sadness and joy when I looked at myself, sitting at my desk, starring fixedly at the stack of papers in front of me, ...
( Category: Chinese March 22,2020 )
My Dyslexia by Philip Schultz
epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Philip Schultz

7 WHEN I WAS TWENTY AND A COLLEGE STUDENT IN San Francisco a therapist told me that given my obvious intelligence I should be able to understand something easily enough. ...
( Category: Authors March 22,2020 )
Light While There is Light by Keith Waldrop
epub |eng | | Author:Keith Waldrop

VIII All his years in the navy, Charles bought books—and read them. He began making outlines and charts for each book, then for aggregates of books. Finally—I have a photo ...
( Category: Biographical March 22,2020 )
Clementine Hunter by Art Shiver
epub |eng | | Author:Art Shiver

Ghana House Murals Four years after the completion of the African House Murals, Mignon decided the time had come for Hunter to paint another series of plantation murals. He explained ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 22,2020 )
The Impossible Exile by George Prochnik
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:George Prochnik [Prochnik, George]

Chapter Seven GLOBAL ROULETTE After a time, the only thing that mattered was to get out of New York. In June 1941, Stefan and Lotte visited Atlantic City, where Stefan ...
( Category: Jewish March 22,2020 )
Juliet’s Answer by Glenn Dixon
epub |eng | | Author:Glenn Dixon

* * * A couple of days after I’d seen Rick and Claire on her back deck, Claire came over to watch some television. Outside, on my own back patio, ...
( Category: Authors March 22,2020 )
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY by ROY MORRIS JR
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:ROY MORRIS, JR.

However it was characterized, Mark Twain’s abrupt departure from Virginia City signaled the end of an era. For the better part of three years, he had been an enthusiastic participant ...
( Category: American Civil War March 22,2020 )
Life al Dente by Gina Cascone
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Gina Cascone

Chapter 12 Driving the Cadillac IWAS THIRTEEN years old when my father decided it was time I learned to drive a car. And not just any old car either, but ...
( Category: Parenting & Families March 22,2020 )
Notes from a Dead House (Food For Thought) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
epub |eng | 2018-06-30 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part II. CHAPTER I. THE HOSPITAL Shortly after the Christmas holidays I felt ill, and had to go to our military hospital, which stood apart at about half a verst ...
( Category: Political March 22,2020 )
The Pity of Partition by Jalal Ayesha
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jalal, Ayesha

18 Shyam. Courtesy Sahira Kazimi The two friends had a rapturous reunion when Shyam visited Lahore briefly after partition for the release of his film. It was the same Shyam, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 22,2020 )

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