Authors
epub |eng | 1982-01-16 | Author:Humphrey Carpenter [Carpenter, Humphrey]

Lewis and Tolkien continued to see much of each other. Tolkien read aloud to Lewis from The Silmarillion, and Lewis urged him to press on and finish writing it. Tolkien ...
( Category: European January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith

“But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.” “Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves ...
( Category: United States January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Gill

Convinced that Moore had provided them with a philosophical basis for their personal conduct, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, as both Apostles and Angels, were influential in transforming the ...
( Category: Women January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Rodrigo Fresán

The Boy, on that long and waking and as-if-dreamed night, trailing along behind his Uncle Hey Walrus through avenues and parks, searching for his parents, and at first leading his ...
( Category: Authors January 16,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-07-12 | Author:Cookson, Catherine [Cookson, Catherine]

* * * 6 Founder of British film company the Rank Organisation, and one of the most important figures in the British film industry at this time. 10 In those ...
( Category: Women January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Ahmet Altan [Altan, Ahmet]

Voyage Around My Cell When I was eight my views on literature were precise and unshakable and my confidence in myself much greater than it is now. I had decided ...
( Category: Authors January 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-02-03 | Author:Judith Thurman [Judith Thurman]

CHAPTER 28 The perversity necessary to satiate an adolescent lover doesn’t devastate a woman sufficiently; on the contrary. Giving becomes a kind of neurosis, of ferocity, an egotistical frenzy. —COLETTE, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-20 | Author:James Como

That Hideous Strength Lewis seems always to have had some piece of writing in the works. This was true of The Chronicles, his autobiography, a narrative poem, and of Abolition ...
( Category: Modern January 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-07 | Author:Jenny Hartley

Coming to the city The young man coming to the city to seek his fortune is an old story. Dickens told it himself many times, with its stages of initiation, ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Norman Lebrecht

Being Arnold Schoenberg is never easy, least of all for the man behind the name. Edgy, provocative, hotheaded, stubborn, insensitive, antisocial, and downright rude are just a few of the ...
( Category: Jewish December 30,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Dowling

Still, Boulton recognized that her compulsive husband had neither the time nor the emotional wherewithal for extramarital affairs—not of a sexual nature, she felt certain, at least not yet.160 “Dirty ...
( Category: Drama December 21,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leo Damrosch

68. Boswell letter to Johnson Just why that should have been so is not always obvious from the documentary record, but life is much more than documents. Boswell’s whimsical humorousness, ...
( Category: European December 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Amanda Yates Garcia

Corn and grain Corn and grain All that fall shall rise again We all come from the Goddess And to her we shall return Like a drop of rain Rolling ...
( Category: Wicca December 17,2019 )
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 | 2011-01-03 | Author:Gail Godwin [Godwin, Gail]

[UNDATED, 1966] I am married to Ian Marshall. “I simply sat and watched him with the queerest, deepest sweetest sense in the world—the sense of an ache that had stopped ...
( Category: Journalists December 17,2019 )