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Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical by Sciabarra Chris
epub |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Sciabarra, Chris [Sciabarra, Chris]

MASTER AND SLAVE As we have seen, The Fountainhead provided Rand with the first opportunity to present a complex psychological portrait of those individuals whom she described as “second-handers.” As ...
( Category: Russia May 19,2016 )
The A-Z of C S Lewis by Duriez Colin
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-18 | Author:Duriez, Colin [Duriez, Colin]

M McCallum, Ronald Buchanan (1898–1973) A member of the Inklings* and a fellow and tutor of history of Pembroke College, Oxford* University, until 1955, when he was elected Master of ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 11,2016 )
The Difficulty of Being by Jean Cocteau
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Jean Cocteau [Cocteau, Jean]

* I have kept ‘Death’ in the feminine throughout this chapter. E.S. † Angélique Arnauld, 1591–1661, Abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal. E.S. ‡ It needs the thundering genius of ...
( Category: History & Criticism May 6,2016 )
Along the Bosphorus (A Vintage Short) by Orhan Pamuk
epub |eng | 2016-04-29 | Author:Orhan Pamuk [Pamuk, Orhan]

In the days before television, this was a pleasant way to pass the time. But my ship-counting habit, this habit I share with so many others, is essentially fed by ...
( Category: General May 6,2016 )
The Life of William Wordsworth by John Worthen
epub |eng | 2014-01-26 | Author:John Worthen

Grasmere was not simply a place which encouraged Wordsworth to write poems and pastorals. It reminded him not only of what others had lost, but of what he too had ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 4,2016 )
The Good Story by J. M. Coetzee
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:J. M. Coetzee

EIGHT Group experiences: music, football, ecstatic religion. Shared ‘knowledge’ within the group. Theoretical problems about group thought. The individual versus the group: personal experience in South Africa. Nationalism as regressive ...
( Category: General April 30,2016 )
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2 VOLUMES) by S. T. Joshi
epub |eng | 2010-08-20 | Author:S. T. Joshi [Joshi, S. T.]

The rest of the year was spent variously in activity with the Kalems, in receiving out-of-town guests, and in solitary travels of an increasingly wider scope in search of antiquarian ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural April 28,2016 )
Sailor and Fiddler by Herman Wouk
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Herman Wouk

* * * I. The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Communism. II. Exodus 15:2 (Holy Bible, New Living Translation). III. Paths of Glory, Patton, Bridge over the River Kwai, ...
( Category: Authors April 26,2016 )
Praeterita (Oxford World's Classics) by John Ruskin
epub |eng | 2012-10-05 | Author:John Ruskin [Ruskin, John]

CHAPTER VI THE CAMPO SANTO* 104. THE summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into ...
( Category: Great Britain April 25,2016 )
0393333590 (N) by John Matteson
epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:John Matteson [Matteson, John]

CHAPTER TEN ORCHARD HOUSE “My associations with the place are of the happiest and holiest kind” —A. BRONSON ALCOTT, Journals, April 28, 1880 BRONSON FELT HE HAD A STROKE OF ...
( Category: United States April 21,2016 )
Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes
epub |eng | 2009-04-20 | Author:Kevin J. Hayes [Hayes, Kevin J.]

Andalusia, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, south elevation, showing hexastyle doric portico. Shortly after returning from Andalusia, Poe was stricken ill and confined to bed for around a month. Consequently, he had ...
( Category: United States April 21,2016 )
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Shapiro

This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. To which Juliet replies: Good pilgrim, ...
( Category: Shakespeare April 20,2016 )
Building Art by Paul Goldberger
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Paul Goldberger

Frank then thanked his mentors, and the Pritzkers, before concluding his talk in the same tone with which he began. “Since the announcement of this award, I have been asked ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers April 19,2016 )
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Melissa Broder

One Text Is Too Many and a Thousand Are Never Enough I’M TRYING TO QUIT GETTING high on people. It’s really fucking hard. I’m a romantic and an addict. I ...
( Category: Essays April 15,2016 )
Is that Kafka? by Reiner Stach
epub |eng | 2016-03-03 | Author:Reiner Stach

III. cont. What to do on rainy days. Or possibly on the last day. Art gallery, on the cheap day. Only a few important pictures. But in thorough detail (like ...
( Category: 20th Century April 14,2016 )

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