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Profiles by Tynan Kenneth; Tynan Kathleen;
epub |eng | | Author:Tynan, Kenneth; Tynan, Kathleen; [Tynan, Kenneth]

NICOL WILLIAMSON On February 24, 1969, Richard Nixon arrived in London at the end of a European tour, he dined that evening at Chequers, the Buckinghamshire mansion that is the ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 16,2020 )
Fierce Attachments by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | 2012-04-13 | Author:Vivian Gornick

Mama and Nettie quarreled, and I entered City College. In feeling memory these events carry equal weight. Both inaugurated open conflict, both drove a wedge between me and the unknowing ...
( Category: Authors June 15,2020 )
The Brontë Cabinet by Deborah Lutz
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Lutz

( Category: Authors June 15,2020 )
The Madwoman and the Roomba by Sandra Tsing Loh
epub |eng | 2020-04-24 | Author:Sandra Tsing Loh

Grade? We are improving! B+! (Probably because the teacher sensed I wrote them, but we’ll take it!) UC Merced wait list, here we come! “Summer” A “June” of One’s Own ...
( Category: Women June 7,2020 )
Death and the Maidens by Janet Todd
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Janet Todd

CHAPTER 18 HARRIET Despite the immense shock of discovering her husband enthralled by another woman, when Shelley returned from the Continent Harriet wished to keep the connection warm. From Mrs ...
( Category: Authors June 6,2020 )
Cross of Snow by Nicholas A. Basbanes
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Nicholas A. Basbanes [Basbanes, Nicholas A.]

* * * — AMONG THE HUNDREDS of domestic objects preserved in the Craigie House storage compartments are numerous playthings and items of children’s apparel, the most affecting to my ...
( Category: Modern June 3,2020 )
Tolkien by Raymond Edwards
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Raymond Edwards

III – The Hobbit: style and sources We last saw The Hobbit as an unfinished story, or one finished only orally, known to Tolkien’s children and to a small number ...
( Category: Authors May 26,2020 )
The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Maggie Doherty [Doherty, Maggie]

CHAPTER 11 Mad for the Message ON FEBRUARY 19, 1963, just eight days after Plath’s death, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique was published by Norton. In the book, Friedan argued ...
( Category: United States May 22,2020 )
Here We Are by Benjamin Taylor
epub |eng | 2020-05-19 | Author:Benjamin Taylor [Taylor, Benjamin]

* * * — A renowned comedian, formerly thought funny, lives in my building. Philip is intrigued by this figure, whom he calls an anti-Semite’s delight, and is forever pumping ...
( Category: United States May 20,2020 )
Three Brothers by Yan Lianke & Yan Lianke
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:Yan Lianke & Yan Lianke [Carlos Rojas & Yan Lianke]

3. FAVORITISM That year, I started school. Even after becoming a student, however, I still looked forward to when First Uncle, after having left the village to sell socks, would ...
( Category: Authors May 17,2020 )
Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt
epub |eng | | Author:David Rosenfelt

Annie I was in the San Fernando Valley to pick up a golden retriever at the West Valley animal shelter. Shelters knew us, since we were there all the time, ...
( Category: Dogs May 10,2020 )
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-The-World Comedy Tour by Richard Zacks
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Richard Zacks [Zacks, Richard]

Neither Clara nor Livy were huge fans of aggressive behavior, although boarding a train in India, finding seats or sleeper berths, loading luggage—all of it required some aggression. “Such rows ...
( Category: Authors May 9,2020 )
The Maxim Gorky by Maxim Gorky
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Maxim Gorky

THE OUTCASTS I The High Street consists of two rows of one-storeyed hovels, squeezed close one against another; old hovels with leaning walls and crooked windows, with dilapidated roofs, disfigured ...
( Category: Russian May 5,2020 )
Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose
epub |eng | 2020-05-15 | Author:Phyllis Rose

paterfamilias When he turned twenty-three, Charles Dickens, a young reporter for the Morning Chronicle, threw a birthday party for himself in his rooms in Furnival’s Inn. He had good reason ...
( Category: Authors May 5,2020 )
Family History of Fear by Agata Tuszynska
epub |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Agata Tuszynska [Tuszynska, Agata]

* * * *1 Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1980): philosopher, historian of philosophy and art, and member of the Polish Academy of Science. Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886–1981): philosopher and logician, member of the ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 5,2020 )

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