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epub |eng | | Author:Van Brooks

* * * CHAPTER V ~ HUMAN NATURE THERE IS ALWAYS A CERTAIN disadvantage in approaching human nature through a theory or in the light of an ideal. If I ...
( Category: Social Philosophy March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-11 | Author:Emily Wilson

SENECA’S WEALTH Poison is drunk from gold.24 We turn now to one of the most fraught questions about Seneca’s life story: his vast accumulation of wealth under Nero.25 For our ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Tyler

* * * BARBARA PYM ON HER VISIT TO CHAWTON 11 August, 1969. Visit to Jane Austen’s house. . . . I put my hand down on Jane’s desk and ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Miriam Nichols

Pacific Nation: Poetry and Politics Blaser would face the political hubbub of his first years at SFU—for him, a question of the relationship between poetry and politics—in his own little ...
( Category: Renaissance March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Rita Guibert

An absolutely visual poem, but it flows, glides and dissolves…In our language, Oriental literature, especially haiku, appears in the work of the Mexican José Juan Tablada. The two initiators of ...
( Category: Essays March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Reeve Lindbergh

7 July 2000 I thought that when one grew up nothing unpleasant would happen. Apparently nothing hurt “grown-ups.” My mother didn’t kick or scream in the dentist’s chair, nor did ...
( Category: Authors March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Claude Brown

9 One night in the fall of 1956, I was walking down Lenox Avenue, and I saw somebody coming toward me. The face looked familiar, but the way he was ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-26 | Author:Norman Sherry

The paradox of Greene’s characters lies in the fact that out of the sinner comes the saint. In The End of the Affair hate is a source of love; in ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

34 Warming Up to the Cold Scots ‘A Serbonian bog of politics’ – PROFESSOR BLACK IN ANOTHER MONTH, near the end of August 1965, Greene has a letter from Catherine, ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Norman Sherry

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was: Honoured Madame, In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. ...
( Category: European March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Chris Abani [Abani, Chris]

The Terrain It is dim in the museum in Auckland, New Zealand. Even dark, and moody. Light filters into this room in a hush, as if afraid to disturb something ...
( Category: Authors March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

242. Robert Lowell to MRS ELIZABETH LOWELL [Telegram] [Maidstone, Kent] [March 24, 1973] MRS ELIZABETH LOWELL 15 WEST67STREET NEWYORKCITY HARRIET ARRIVED SAFELY MATURELY AND GLORIOUSLY LOVE CAL 243. Elizabeth Hardwick ...
( Category: Letters March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Victor Villaseñor

TWENTY-FIVE School was out. It was Saturday, and I was driving our familia ’s big Cadillac. We were on our way to Brawley, east of San Diego, to visit my ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-24 | Author:Deborah Larsen [Larsen, Deborah]

That Mother of a Snake When Sophie looked out her side window, there was Stella whom she had not seen for weeks. She looked like Daisy Mae: she wore cut-off ...
( Category: Authors March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Fraser, Christine Marion [Fraser, Christine Marion]

Blue Horizons The idea of a wheelchair never occurred to any of us till one fateful day Mam was telling a neighbour about the long hours of boredom I spent ...
( Category: Children's Studies March 16,2020 )