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A Pima Past by Anna Moore Shaw
epub |eng | 2015-05-02 | Author:Anna Moore Shaw

Childhood Sweethearts ALTHOUGH THE GIRLS AND BOYS were strictly separated at the Phoenix Indian School, we could not help but notice each other. This was especially true as we became ...
( Category: Native American Studies January 19,2020 )
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Nicholas Frankel

However, there are good reasons for questioning the veracity of Wilde’s account. Relations with Ross had been tense at best where Douglas was concerned. More to the point, having separated ...
( Category: Victorian January 19,2020 )
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:John Burnside [Burnside, John]

Like a Fluid (The Great Romantic) The great artist is he who conquers the romantic in himself. —Henry Miller, Black Spring He loved the trees he had played under as ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Montaigne by Desan Philippe; Rendall Steven; Neal Lisa
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Desan, Philippe; Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa [Desan, Philippe; Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa]

The Essais “Castigated and Brought into Harmony with the Opinions of the Monkish Doctors” Montaigne writes that when he first entered Rome on November 30, 1580, his book was “taken” ...
( Category: Renaissance January 19,2020 )
How to Live, What to Do by Richardson Joan;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Richardson, Joan; [Richardson, Joan]

9 ORDINARY EVENING O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? ...
( Category: Movements & Periods January 19,2020 )
Nobody Home by Gary Snyder
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gary Snyder [Snyder, Gary; Martin, Julia]

A last question that I’ve been meaning to ask since I received the Sierra Club book about you. Of course I enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures, and ...
( Category: Letters January 18,2020 )
The Shadow of Vesuvius by Daisy Dunn
epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Daisy Dunn

It is tempting to see the influence of Pliny the Elder’s passages on art in the design of the Tuscan estate itself. Outside, in the hippodrome garden, Nature was shaped ...
( Category: Rome January 18,2020 )
Alice Adams by Carol Sklenicka
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Carol Sklenicka

Wilson did not stop with diagnosing a problem. Her five-page, elite-typed, single-spaced offer to accept the novel, dated July 11, 1973, gave excruciatingly detailed suggestions for the rewrite she would ...
( Category: Authors January 18,2020 )
The First Poets by Schmidt Michael;
epub |eng | 2014-04-06 | Author:Schmidt, Michael; [Schmidt, Michael]

Poor in his youth, Solon travelled to make his fortune, Plutarch says. In his age a person of good family could work for gain without a stigma attaching to him. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 18,2020 )
The Mystery of Lewis Carroll by Jenny Woolf
epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Jenny Woolf [Woolf, Jenny]

… I suppose you don’t remember when Mr. Dodgson ceased coming to the Deanery? How old you were? I said his manner became too affectionate to you as you grew ...
( Category: Children's Literature January 18,2020 )
One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Brian Doyle

Hoop Photographs are time machines, and other people’s children are time machines (how did that kid get a foot taller and an octave deeper in a month?), and boxes of ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
In the Shadow of the Bridge by Joseph Caldwell
epub |eng | 2019-08-21 | Author:Joseph Caldwell

7. During part of this middle period, I experienced a somewhat radical change in my writing career. I began working on the television soap operas Love of Life, Secret Storm, ...
( Category: Authors January 17,2020 )
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 2018-05-03 | Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

Descriptions of Humanity (Physical) ¶ They rode through those five years in an open car with the sun on their foreheads and their hair flying. They waved to people they ...
( Category: Essays January 17,2020 )
The Dolphin by Robert Lowell
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Lowell

The Couple “Twice in the past two weeks I think I met Lizzie in the recurrent dream. We were out walking. What sort of street, you ask, fair or London? ...
( Category: United States January 17,2020 )
Joseph Roth- a Life in Letters by Michael Hofmann
epub |eng | 2011-12-18 | Author:Michael Hofmann [Hofmann, Michael]

224. Stefan Zweig to Joseph Roth [November 1933] Dear friend, forgive me for giving such a rushed reply to a letter whose human content I sense so profoundly. But I ...
( Category: Letters January 17,2020 )

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