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epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Alphonse Daudet

II In the Land of Pain This year at Néris*1 either my eyes are less sharp or the company is less interesting. A few characters, however. Mme M–––, magistrate’s wife, ...
( Category: French March 3,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-08-07 | Author:Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez [Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift]

The house at Vailima with the additions made to the first structure. In the midst of all these labours there were a thousand other troubles to be met and conquered—servants' ...
( Category: Authors March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Jane Shilling

RATHER IN THE teeth of experience, I was looking forward to the hunt ball. Single motherhood, invariably coupled by people like John Bull with the adjective “feckless,” had turned out, ...
( Category: Hunting March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Sonya Lea [Lea, Sonya]

16 pathless AFTER WE TELL Richard’s boss he isn’t coming back to work, his treatment program becomes his lifeline. Richard’s days include performing a list of household tasks the occupational ...
( Category: Women March 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-08-07 | Author:Nile Southern

In July 1962, Terry received a fateful assignment from Esquire to interview Stanley Kubrick. Terry had seen Paths of Glory and The Killing in Paris, and Kubrick had just finished ...
( Category: European March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Jen, Gish [Jen, Gish]

In his essay “Why I Write,” George Orwell confidently gave “four great motives for writing” that he feels exist in every writer. The first of these is sheer egotism—to “be ...
( Category: United States March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-01 | Author:Wendy Lesser [Lesser, Wendy]

ITALIAN Limpid, Blue, Poppy M. J. Fitzgerald In early 1959, while we were living in a small seaside town along the Ligurian coast, Italian television made a documentary of us. ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jeremy Lewis

( Category: Authors March 2,2020 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2006-12-18 | Author:Susan Cheever [Cheever, Susan]

In the winter of 1844, the Alcotts returned to Concord, not for the first or last time. Abigail’s father’s estate had yielded $1,000 and Emerson contributed $500 so that Abba ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Edmund White [EDMUND WHITE]

And all this a decade before Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp,” in which she spoke of camp as an effort to rescue failed glamour. There were many reasons Isherwood’s ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David M. Friedman

AFTER BOARDING A train bound for Sacramento, some fifteen hundred miles away, Wilde was told he was riding “express.” He would soon learn, however, how imprecise that term was in ...
( Category: European March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-14 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

Mama and Nettie quarreled, and I entered City College. In feeling memory these events carry equal weight. Both inaugurated open conflict, both drove a wedge between me and the unknowing ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
epub | | 2013-08-26 | Author:Donald Keene

8 SHIKI AND THE TANKA Shiki composed not only haiku but also many other varieties of Japanese poetry, even the sedōka that he unsuccessfully attempted to revive after a thousand ...
( Category: Asian March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:John James Audubon [Audubon, John James]

“The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keels is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

ALICE WALKER: I think a lot of different things. One was that I grew up in a very large family; I was very lonely and we always lived in very ...
( Category: United States February 28,2020 )