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epub |eng | 2002-04-30 | Author:Dominique Browning

SMELL THE ROSES One summer my younger son informs me that, come September, I will no longer be permitted to walk him to school. Actually, Theo has been gently preparing ...
( Category: How-to & Home Improvements February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-07 | Author:J. D. Salinger [Salinger, J. D.]

Summer 1977 Dear J. D.: I hope you don’t mind my writing and disturbing you, but I feel I have known you a long time … enclosed please find a ...
( Category: Short Stories February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-18 | Author:Jerome Charyn

5 BABEL MAY HAVE WALKED PARIS, but he was no flâneur, like Walter Benjamin or Baudelaire. Benjamin was a pathfinder who could feel the lyrical pull between epochs, fall upon ...
( Category: Jewish February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:Bill Morgan

Chapter 14 The Threads Loosen A few days after Herb Caen’s 1958 invention of beatnikery, Neal Cassady was arrested in San Francisco for giving a small amount of marijuana to ...
( Category: Beat Generation February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Zevin

10%: Friends Lost to Procreation As I further contemplated what happened to my old bosom buddies, it became clear that widespread reproductive activity has forced many of them underground. Generally ...
( Category: Authors February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-03 | Author:Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald]

Kuza Nama Listen again. One Evening at the Close Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose, In that old Potter’s Shop I stood alone With the clay Population round in ...
( Category: Middle Eastern February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Francesca Wade [Francesca Wade]

Power was not only concerned with an overhaul of domestic policy. Her trip to the Far East in 1920 had expanded her horizons at a time when Europe was in ...
( Category: World War II February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-27 | Author:Khodasevich, Vladislav

At the end of his school days, Gershenzon dreamed of enrolling in the philological faculty, but his father wouldn’t hear of it. In the eighties, and even later on, there ...
( Category: Russian February 20,2020 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )