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epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Tobias Churton

As a new heaven is begun, and it is now thirty-three years since its advent: the Eternal Hell revives. And lo! Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at the tomb; his ...
( Category: Religion June 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Ryan Leigh Dostie

One day a different Iraqi translator visits my guard tower. He’s not a regular at our camp, but he’s on loan from the First Armored Division, clearly higher ranking in ...
( Category: Iraq War June 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Dorian Lynskey

* * * — As far as Orwell was concerned, “a book doesn’t exist until it is finished.” He would neither share his drafts with friends nor discuss the contents ...
( Category: Modern June 7,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-27 | Author:Shippey, Tom [Shippey, Tom]

The old stone, i.e. the ruin = the remains of an earlier, heathen, oral poetry which the Beowulf-poet might have known about The house the man lives in, also partly ...
( Category: European June 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-25 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Eloquence is a beautiful thing, but rhetoric ruins many a critic … —“Ben Jonson” … I think that the first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue ...
( Category: European May 25,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-12 | Author:Michael Slater [Slater, Michael]

are not to be done without trouble; and the main trouble necessary to them, is the devising of some pleasant means of telling what is to be told. The indispensable ...
( Category: Victorian May 12,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Walt Whitman

The objections to me are the objections made to all men who choose to go their own road—make their own choice of methods. When once I am convinced I never ...
( Category: Modern May 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-07 | Author:Marion Turner

1 Jane Black, Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza, 1329–1535 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 52. 2 Saul, Richard II, 85; Anthony Tuck, ...
( Category: European April 10,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2000-02-14 | Author:Kingsley Amis

TO J.H. McCALLUM – 24 AUGUST 1960 53 Glanmor Road, Uplands, Swansea, Glam., G.B. Dear John, I am really delighted to hear that TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU has drawn ...
( Category: European March 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-08 | Author:Richard Russo

* * * — That art should be so elusive is deeply mysterious. In many respects it seems so straightforward. What art demands of us has remained constant down through ...
( Category: Essays May 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Lisa Jarnot

Concurrent with the late Passages poems of Bending the Bow came a project of another sort, a series of translations of the Chimeras of Gerard de Nerval, which Duncan began ...
( Category: United States April 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Oscar Wilde

Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. An Ideal Husband. When we are happy we are always good ...
( Category: European April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-04 | Author:Albert Camus [Camus, Albert]

( Category: French April 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-05 | Author:Peggy Shinner [Shinner, Peggy]

Berenice’s Hair The Tantrics said the forces of creation and destruction lay in the binding and unbinding of a woman’s hair. The Syrians said a woman who combed her hair ...
( Category: United States April 5,2018 )