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At Elizabeth David's Table by Elizabeth David
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Elizabeth David

SLOW-COOKED SQUID Calamari in umido 500g/1lb squid, salt, lemon juice, 2 large onions, oil, 2 or 3 tomatoes, 1 dessert teaspoon tomato purée, marjoram and thyme, 3 cloves of garlic, ...
( Category: English, Scottish & Welsh February 18,2020 )
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Jessica Mitford

16 WE STILL HAD almost two hours before the boat would leave. Esmond suddenly became preoccupied and silent. He suggested walking down by the quai. We passed rows of waterfront ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 18,2020 )
The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume 2 by St. Teresa of Avila
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:St. Teresa of Avila [Avila, St. Teresa of]

* * * [1] Gracián's mother (see Ltr. 358.5). [2] Gracián's sister, who was a Carmelite in Valladolid. [3] Her nephew Francisco de Cepeda, who suddenly left the novitiate in ...
( Category: Inspirational February 18,2020 )
Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John Lahr

5 SCANDALOUS SURVIVAL One does not kill by anger but by laughter. Come, let us kill the Spirit of Gravity. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra Killing is one of the ...
( Category: Authors February 18,2020 )
King of the Cowboys by Ty Murray & Steve Eubanks
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Ty Murray & Steve Eubanks

· · · FOR A LONG TIME after losing Lane, nothing seemed natural or normal. The atmosphere on the road was thick with grief. We didn’t joke the way we ...
( Category: Movements & Periods February 18,2020 )
Our Man Down in Havana by Christopher Hull
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Christopher Hull

AN “INTERESTING FAILURE” Two decades earlier, when Greene had reviewed Deuxième Bureau (1935) for the Spectator, he had criticized “a rather dull film, a long packed melodrama of the French ...
( Category: United States February 18,2020 )
Edith Wharton in France by Lesage Claudine;
epub |eng | 2018-08-12 | Author:Lesage Claudine;

Aside from one short visit in 1923, to accept an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, this would be Wharton’s last crossing to the United States. Minnie Bourget recalled ...
( Category: Women February 17,2020 )
Writing with the Master by Tony Vanderwarker
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Tony Vanderwarker

Tony: Here’s the book back, with some notes. I did a lot of scribbling on the text, then decided to put together my edits, which I’ve crudely broken down into ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 17,2020 )
Name All the Animals by Alison Smith
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Alison Smith

28 EVERY SPRING THE English department chartered a bus and drove up to Ontario’s Stratford to see a Shakespeare play. As field trips, especially those involving Canadian borders, were hugely ...
( Category: Siblings February 17,2020 )
I Will Never See the World Again by Yasemin Congar & Ahmet Altan
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Yasemin Congar & Ahmet Altan

Voyage Around My Cell When I was eight my views on literature were precise and unshakable and my confidence in myself much greater than it is now. I had decided ...
( Category: Authors February 16,2020 )
Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lawrence Osborne [Osborne, Lawrence]

IN SEARCH OF ANOTHER PAST Just southeast of Thong Lor lies the neighborhood of On Nut, a sprawling no-man's-land where the servants and chauffeurs who service the Thong Lor palaces ...
( Category: Authors February 16,2020 )
Ghalib by Raza Mir
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Raza Mir

Urdu in Nineteenth-Century Lucknow The nineteenth century saw polemical battles between Lucknawi writers and their Delhi counterparts for supremacy, each faction claiming that their work represented Urdu traditions better. Lucknow ...
( Category: Essays February 16,2020 )
Hashish, Wine, Opium by Charles Baudelaire
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Charles Baudelaire [Baudelaire, Charles]

9 Don’t Trust Chronometers On coming round, I saw the room was full of gentlemen dressed in black, greeting each other sadly and shaking hands with a melancholy friendliness like ...
( Category: Authors February 16,2020 )
Walt Whitman's America by David S. Reynolds
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:David S. Reynolds [Reynolds, David S.]

The tensions between liberty and power, states’ rights and union, are here resolved by an “I” who proclaims both individuality and total equality with others. In the aftermath of Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: American Civil War February 15,2020 )
In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller
epub |eng | 2019-12-10 | Author:Adrienne Miller

DAVID, LATER IN THE CONVERSATION: “What are you planning to get your mom for Mother’s Day?” ME: “Flowers, probably, I don’t know. Perfume maybe. You?” HIM: “A Batman mouse pad.” ...
( Category: Authors February 15,2020 )

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