Biographies
azw3 |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I dreamt last night that my little one was walking towards me along the pavement, with dirty cheeks, for some reason, and in a dark little coat; I ask him ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1968-01-01 | Author:Albert Cohen [Cohen, Albert]

CHAPTER 54 Perched on a ladder with a lantern in one hand, the tiny creature examined herself in the mirror on the wall, made faces at her reflection, then rouged ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Carl Schmitt [Schmitt, Carl]

The complete inventory of this system of antitheses and their possible combinations is contained in the 1814 treatise by Benjamin Constant. He maintains that we are in an age which ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:William Faulkner [Faulkner, William]

IXTEEN CHARLES MALLISON This is what Ratliff said happened up to where Uncle Gavin could see it. It was January, a gray day though not cold because of the fog. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Anaïs Nin [Nin, Anaïs]

Elena dreamed of Pierre and Bijou. The full-fleshed Bijou, the whore, the animal, the lioness; a luxuriant goddess of abundance, her flesh a bed of sensuality – every pore and ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Max Porter [Porter, Max]

DAD Such a bad joke, bad dream, bad poem, so different, this cr cr cr cr cr e ak, ik e y, evice, ea tor. Cr Cr cr y ying ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Henry Green [Green, Henry]

—— COLLEGE, OXFORD My dear B. G. “I saw you last night in the club, but you cut me dead. Come to lunch Friday to be forgiven. I wanted to ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:John Donne [Donne, John]

Upon the Annunciation when Good Friday Fell upon the Same Day Date and Context. Probably c. 25 March 1608, as the scribe of the ancestral copy of Group III thought, ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Jean Genet

THE STUDIO OF ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Every man has probably experienced that sort of grief, if not terror, at seeing how the world and its history seem caught in an ineluctable ...
( Category: Memoirs October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1834-01-01 | Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Carové

* * * * * * VIII. But the dragonfly was fleet, and gratitude strengthened her wings to pay her host the honour she owed him. And truly in the ...
( Category: Children's Literature October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:Edward Parnell [Parnell, Edward]

A sign warns CLIFF FALLS ARE FREQUENT AND DEADLY. In the distance I see a group of three figures. Through my binoculars I make out a middle-aged couple and their ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Martin Heidegger [Heidegger, Martin]

1. Note from the German editor: The quotations from the Phenomenology of Spirit are from hereafter cited according to the complete edition of Hegel’s works (cf. above p.51, footnote 1 ...
( Category: Philosophy October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:J.A. Baker [Baker, J.A.]

December 15th The warm west gale heaved and thundered across the flat river plain, crashed and threshed high its crests of airy spray against the black breakwater of the wooded ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1893-12-15 | Author:Paul Bourget [Bourget, Paul]

"And now this last verse: Peto quod petivit latro poenitens! [I ask that which the penitent thief asked.] "What a cry! Ah, but it is beautiful! It is beautiful! What ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anthony Powell [Powell, Anthony]

4 BAGSHAW WAS AT ONCE ATTENTIVE to the idea of an American biographer of X. Trapnel seeking an interview with himself. In fact he pressed for a meeting to hear ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )