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epub |eng | 2005-12-26 | Author:Paget Toynbee

DANTE AND HIS BOOK From the picture by Domenico di Michelino, in the Duomo at Florence 1“To every captive soul and gentle heart Unto whose ken these present words shall ...
( Category: Medieval December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Maya Angelou [Angelou, Maya]

After creating the universe, all the stars, each grain of sand, the humpback whale and the soft-shell crab, even God tired and took a day off. There’s no argument that ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

TO: Maxwell Perkins TLS, 3 pp. Princeton University 1307 Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, April 15, 1935. Dear Max: You don’t say anything about “Taps” so I gather it hasn’t caught ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Cea Sunrise Person

A FEW DAYS AFTER Mom and Karl’s fight, Mom surprised me by being awake before I was. When I went downstairs, she was already at the kitchen table with my ...
( Category: Women December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Harry Bernstein [BERNSTEIN, HARRY]

Chapter Twelve I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO WRITE THE INVISIBLE Wall. It must have been about a year, but it was finally done, and the ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Emmanuel Carrère [Carrère, Emmanuel]

5 EDUARD’S FRIEND FABIENNE ISSARTEL, the Parisian nightlife queen, said to him: “You’re angry at everyone, you don’t agree with anyone. I know just the person you should meet.” She ...
( Category: Political December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Susan Shillinglaw & Nancy Burnett

Sea Otters Sea otter mural, Pacific Grove bike trail. For almost a century, the southern sea otter, slaughtered for its thick fur, was thought to be extinct. But in March ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Matthew Batt [Batt, Matthew]

In class, Tony arranges a four-by-eight sheet of plywood that will be our “floor.” As he readies his air compressor and nail guns, the handlebar mustache men needle him with ...
( Category: Do-It-Yourself December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:A. David Moody

That might be the notary’s hand, or his own, and his reader’s. That ‘Thou’ is the all-inclusive singular which is addressing equally one’s own self and other selves, speaking to ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:Andrew Delbanco [Delbanco, Andrew]

What we have here is a parody of the Romantic author imagining himself as high priest charged by God to bring forth Truth. It was an idea of authorship first ...
( Category: United States December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck

In Adlai Stevenson’s first campaign for the Presidency Steinbeck wrote scores of speeches to be delivered by supporters at rallies in the eastern half of the United States. This letter ...
( Category: Authors December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Riggs

9.8 The end of the world. From John Doleta, Strange news out of Calabria, 1586. While Tamburlaine’s troops are killing every last man, woman and child in Damascus, the tears ...
( Category: Drama December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-01 | Author:Norman Mailer [Mailer, Norman]

Dear Don, [.…] Look, I’m going to give a little back to you. Your letter gave me a pain in the ass. As far as I’m concerned, you pulled the ...
( Category: Authors December 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Chandra, Vikram [Chandra, Vikram]

Programmers work doggedly toward correctness, but the sheer size and complexity of software ensures that bugs lurk within. A bug is, of course, a flaw or fault in a program ...
( Category: Authors December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Davy Rothbart

In May of 2004, a New York publisher put out a book I’d put together called Found, based on the annual magazine I produce, which collects love letters, to- do ...
( Category: Essays December 19,2014 )