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I Only Read It for the Cartoons: The New Yorker's Most Brilliantly Twisted Artists by Richard Gehr
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Richard Gehr [Gehr, Richard]

Previously unpublished While visiting the magazine’s office one day, Barsotti learned that the head of the Newsday syndicate had been fired. “It was close to the holidays, and Geraghty, in ...
( Category: Biographies & History January 8,2016 )
Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Greer Germaine
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-02-20 | Author:Greer, Germaine [Greer, Germaine]

12. Scenes from a droll, showing an assemblage of Shakespearian characters, 1662. Again, it is an unassuming remark of Wittgenstein’s which shows a way into Shakespeare’s conceptual world: ‘Shakespeare displays ...
( Category: European January 7,2016 )
Where the Indus is Young by Dervla Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-01-03 | Author:Dervla Murphy [Dervla Murphy]

Skardu – 23 January When I woke last night to use our ‘commode’ (that same bucket in which water is fetched during the day: of such unsavoury details is domestic ...
( Category: Travel January 4,2016 )
Yosef Haim Brenner by Shapira Anita Berris Anthony
epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Shapira, Anita,Berris, Anthony [Shapira, Anita]

Eight Wartime, 1914–1918 The thunder of the cannons in August 1914 heralding the outbreak of war in Europe was also heard in faraway Palestine. The Yishuv was cut off from ...
( Category: Middle East January 3,2016 )
Curtain Up by Julius Green
epub |eng | 2015-10-27 | Author:Julius Green

SCENE THREE Saunders’ Folly Witness for the Prosecution is Agatha Christie’s undisputed theatrical masterpiece. This accomplished three-act courtroom drama with its classic ‘quadruple twist’ ending sets the benchmark for the ...
( Category: Drama January 2,2016 )
Rainbow in the Cloud by Maya Angelou
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that action as natural and to be expected. Forgiveness is ...
( Category: Rich & Famous December 30,2015 )
Kay Thompson by Irvin Sam
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Irvin, Sam [Irvin, Sam]

Of course, Eloise needed a caretaker, and that character took the form of Nanny, a British au pair. “I helped her write that,” claimed Paul Methuen, Noël Coward’s friend who ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers December 26,2015 )
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
epub, azw3 | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Leo Tolstoy [Tolstoy, Leo]

Chapter 8 All these doubts, which I am now able to express more or less clearly, I could not have then explained. I then only felt that, despite the logical ...
( Category: Religious December 25,2015 )
Built of Books by Thomas Wright
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Wright

* If Douglas did harbour such hopes as he sat in the Tite Street library on that July afternoon, the portents would have struck him as auspicious. He was, as ...
( Category: European December 22,2015 )
Louisa May Alcott by Susan Cheever
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Susan Cheever

Further up the Atlantic Coast, Louisa May Alcott was taking her first trip beyond New England. She hadn’t left Baltimore yet, but her journal is already more Dickensian than Richardsonian. ...
( Category: United States December 17,2015 )
The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2015-11-17 | Author:Ginger Strand [Strand, Ginger]

8 Out of the Blue Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, generous of smile, rotund of body, arrived at GE sporting his traditional fez. He was trailed by his brocaded, bejeweled ...
( Category: United States December 10,2015 )
The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
epub |eng | 2001-07-16 | Author:Consuelo de Saint-Exupery

TONIO WAS DOING LESS PILOTING, but his love of aviation only grew. Generous and unthinking by nature, he brought home all his friends from the boulevards and the cafés, and ...
( Category: Authors December 6,2015 )
Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien
epub |eng | 2009-12-04 | Author:Edna O'Brien

SIXTEEN When Byron and Annabella moved into 13 Piccadilly Terrace, a house rented from the Duchess of Devonshire, Byron’s two burning objectives were deliverance from that marriage and funds to ...
( Category: Authors December 5,2015 )
Hunting with Hemingway by Hilary Hemingway
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Hilary Hemingway

“Excuse me, but did Ernest ever offer a reason why he didn’t shoot the attacking dragon?” the professor inquired. “I wanted to ask him—but the moment for questions had passed. ...
( Category: Hunting December 5,2015 )
The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel
epub |eng | 2013-12-22 | Author:Lara Feigel

When he suggested having Mark, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve had all these women and you live with them and you say you love them and then come back after ...
( Category: World War II December 5,2015 )

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