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epub |eng | | Author:Angelica Garnett

7 At Home in Sussex Meanwhile life at Charleston continued, bathed it seemed in the glow of a perpetual summer. The household fell into two halves: on the one hand ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Lansky

I was given clean sheets for a lumpy twin bed; on the top bunk was a dark-haired boy with a sparse mustache that belied his age. Fourteen, fifteen, maybe. In ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Erica Heller

LIMOS AND LYNX My mother, alas, had not served in World War II, nor had she learned as expertly as her husband how to vanquish an enemy. Up until then, ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-26 | Author:Marion Meade

Chapter 6 FERNCLIFF (1967) For her half a century as a writer, Dottie was rewarded with the equivalent of a gold watch: a front-page obituary in the New York Times. ...
( Category: Authors March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-06 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Déjà j’entends l’orage du tambour, De cent heros je vois briller la rage, Déjà je vois envahir cent états Et tant d’humains moissonnés avant l’âge. This may not have been ...
( Category: France March 11,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Jonathan Cott [Cott, Jonathan]

In his poem “Élévation” from Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire wrote: “Agile you move, O my mind, and as a strong swimmer / swoons on the wavy sea, gaily you ...
( Category: Philosophers March 8,2016 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Norman Mailer

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Yet as the film progresses with every skill in evidence, while Brando gives a performance that is unforgettable (and Schneider shows every promise of becoming a major star), as the ...
( Category: General March 7,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut [Vonnegut, Kurt]

WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE SAVED OURSELVES, BUT WERE TOO DAMNED LAZY TO TRY VERY HARD. “We might well add this: AND TOO DAMN CHEAP. “So it’s curtains not just for ...
( Category: Anthologies March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

Memories of a Battle It’s not true that I’ve forgotten everything, the memories are still there, hidden in the grey tangle of the brain, in the damp bed of sand ...
( Category: European March 5,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Bryson, Bill [Bryson, Bill]

( Category: Travel March 2,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Bellos

By the time Perec began to work on L’Arbre, his celebrity as the winner of the 1965 Renaudot Prize had faded almost completely in France, but it had begun to ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Catharine Arnold

7 THE GREAT GLOBE ITSELF Can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air ...
( Category: Great Britain February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-18 | Author:Eleanor Fitzsimons [FITZSIMONS, ELEANOR]

In 1871, at the height of her fame, Ouida swapped the Langham for a sprawling villa in Florence; it was falling down around her but it had belonged to one ...
( Category: Authors February 15,2016 )