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The Man Who Was Walter Mitty by Thomas Fensch
epub |eng | 2014-02-27 | Author:Thomas Fensch

“The Admiral on the Wheel” couldn’t have been a clearer public admission of Thurber’s near-blindness. The critics continued to praise every Thurber book. The learned Doctor James Thurber as his ...
( Category: Authors February 28,2020 )
The Correspondence, 1834-1848 by Thoreau Henry David; Hudspeth Robert N.;
epub |eng | 2013-02-27 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David; Hudspeth, Robert N.;

To Isaac Thomas Hecker August 14, 1844 Concord Aug. 14th 44 Friend Hecker, I am glad to hear your voice from that populous city, and the more so for the ...
( Category: Letters February 28,2020 )
Dead as Doornails by Anthony Cronin
epub |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Anthony Cronin [Cronin, Anthony]

6 BRIAN O’NOLAN was a small man whose appearance somehow combined elements of the priest, the baby-faced Chicago gangster, the petty bourgeois malt drinker and the Dublin literary gent. The ...
( Category: European February 27,2020 )
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Mezrich

Seventeen Boston, Halloween 1995 Vegas had Fight Night. New Orleans had Mardi Gras. Boston had Halloween. Thousands of college students howling through the streets, dressed in costumes that were usually ...
( Category: Gambling February 27,2020 )
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton by Linda Gray Sexton
epub |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:Linda Gray Sexton [Sexton, Linda Gray]

THE AUTUMN OF my sophomore year at college Nana, widowed for almost fifteen years, accepted a marriage proposal; in a small local church in February of 1973 she married for ...
( Category: Authors February 27,2020 )
The Scandal of the Century by Gabriel García Márquez
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez

June 6, 1958: Caracas Without Water If a downpour falls this morning, this feature is telling a lie. But if it does not rain before June, read it… After listening ...
( Category: Essays February 27,2020 )
Common Sense 101 by Dale Ahlquist
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Dale Ahlquist [Ahlquist, Dale]

14 The Art of Defending the Christian Faith In Matthew 10:16, when Jesus sends out his disciples to preach the Gospel, he tells them to be “as wise as serpents ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
Scratched by Elizabeth Tallent
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Elizabeth Tallent

Down through Illinois, into the snowed-silent corner of Missouri. Even if all went well—unlikely, given the car’s propensity for breakdowns—we were barely going to make it to New Mexico in ...
( Category: Substance Abuse February 26,2020 )
Conversations with Casanova by Derek Parker
epub |eng | | Author:Derek Parker

GIRLS, ST PAUL AND OYSTERS Living in Rome and performing minor church duties, Casanova had no difficulty in reconciling his promiscuity with the teachings of the Church. Like many – ...
( Category: Authors February 26,2020 )
These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:Martha Ackmann

* Charles Thompson lived with the Stearns family from the time he was fifteen until his marriage. He worked as a “choreboy” for the family and later as custodian at ...
( Category: Poetry February 26,2020 )
Around the House and In the Garden by Dominique Browning
epub |eng | 2002-04-30 | Author:Dominique Browning

SMELL THE ROSES One summer my younger son informs me that, come September, I will no longer be permitted to walk him to school. Actually, Theo has been gently preparing ...
( Category: How-to & Home Improvements February 26,2020 )
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years by Charles Capper
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Capper [Charles Capper]

CHAPTER SEVEN .The Schoolmistress (1837-1838) I Margaret Fuller's first impressions of Providence were not especially happy ones. Feeling both sick and a little homesick, she wrote wistfully to Emerson on ...
( Category: Political Parties February 26,2020 )
Conversations with Wilde by Merlin Holland
epub |eng | | Author:Merlin Holland

A FATAL FRIENDSHIP Contrary to appearances, the relationship between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas was not that of an older man leading a younger man astray. Douglas, the third ...
( Category: Victorian February 26,2020 )
Love Unknown by Thomas Travisano
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Thomas Travisano

Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped and—who knows?—self-pitying mountains, sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery, ...
( Category: Women Authors February 25,2020 )
Runaway Waltz by Frederic Morton
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Frederic Morton

Probably it would. And probably Baroness Pauline has fine-tuned her tanginess to the biographer. Probably I strike her as quite a highbrow sort, with kinks of my own. Hence her ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic February 24,2020 )

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