Authors
epub |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Gail Godwin

Nancy Miller had joined a growing list of Random House’s departures by the time I was in the very early stages of The Red Nun. I was assigned a new ...
( Category: Authors December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-17 | Author:Nikolai Tolstoy

XI Muddied Waters Repeatedly dwell on the swiftness of the passage and departure of things that are and of things that come to be. For substance is like a river ...
( Category: Biographical December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Roger Grenier [Grenier, Roger]

Reading Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone ...
( Category: Essays December 16,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-12-11 | Author:Stephen Barber [Barber, Stephen]

The Penal Colony visualizes a filmic world with excruciating exactitude and anticipation; it would prove to be the last of Genet’s sustained works on spaces of incarceration and their dynamics ...
( Category: European December 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Cyrus Grace Dunham

I’d been hurt by my sister sketching me in her work with the broad strokes required to create a character. The character got inside me, disoriented me. The power of ...
( Category: LGBT December 8,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Michael Schumacher

7 There was resistance to the radical changes taking place in New York’s bohemian community, and soon enough Allen found himself battling the political forces that advocated censorship in opposition ...
( Category: Beat Generation November 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-25 | Author:Donna Tussing Orwin [Tussing Orwin, Donna]

“Church and State” (1879) A short essay written early in Tolstoy’s quest for religious certainty and not published until much later already attacks the established Church in sharp, precise, and ...
( Category: Authors November 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Eleanor Fitzsimons

CHAPTER 15 “ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY ADORING YOUNG MEN” According to Ada Chesterton, Edith was “always surrounded by adoring young men, dazzled by her vitality, amazing talent and the sheer magnificence ...
( Category: Authors November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur

GRAHAM GREENE was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, the son of a school headmaster and part of the family that owned the Greene King brewery empire. Quickly discovering his love ...
( Category: Modern November 20,2019 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Daniel Smith

The Temple of Food In two stories (‘The Dying Detective’ and ‘The Illustrious Client’) Holmes takes Watson for a bite of something ‘nutritious’ at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, one of London’s foremost dining ...
( Category: Authors November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:Irene Gammel

ELEVEN Red Hair, Puffed Sleeves, and the Rituals of Growing Up “ … I cannot imagine that red hair away. I do my best. I think to myself, ‘Now my ...
( Category: Authors November 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-17 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

Chapter Five THE FIRST MAKINGS OF ART THE FIRST IMAGES WERE RATHER POOR, TO THE SURPRISE OF neither man. Southey was the more experienced of the pair—he had been taking ...
( Category: European October 24,2019 )
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Holmes [Holmes, Richard]

…My body bending forward, yea, o’erbalanced Almost beyond recoil, on the dim brink Of a huge chasm I stept. The shadowy moonshine Filling the void so counterfeited substance, That my ...
( Category: Poetry August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Zachary Leader

Adam’s view of his father’s speech at the panel, or his manner in delivering it, was that “he’d asked for it, hadn’t he?” Presumably by identifying writerly hostility to the ...
( Category: Modern July 19,2019 )