Historical Biographies
azw3 |eng | 2020-09-15 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Zweig, Stefan]

VI Transfiguration Towards the Self The snake which cannot shed its skin, perishes. Likewise those spirits which are unable to change their concepts are no longer spirits. Men of order, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies 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, pdf |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Carlo Ginzburg

43 The interrogations ended on the 12th of May. Menocchio was conducted back to his cell. A few days passed. Finally, on the 17th, he refused the services of a ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Alberto Manguel [Manguel, Alberto]

Oh, thou eternal Homer! I have now To paint a siege, wherein more men were slain, With deadlier engines and a speedier blow, Than in thy Greek gazette of that ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-10-09 | Author:Ian Brady [Brady, Ian]

After the passage of a year without any further killings, in April 1985 the head of the Task Force publicly stated that he was confident that the Green River murders ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2021-05-24 | Author:Susan Bernofsky [Bernofsky, Susan]

TWELVE The Aftermath of War 1917–1920 DURING THE WAR, Robert lost a brother. The deceased was not a war casualty, unless you count the inner war he’d been fighting for ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1937-01-01 | Author:Charles Williams [Williams, Charles]

Chapter Eight DRESS REHEARSAL Among the many individualized forms, dead or living, upon the Hill, there was one neither dead nor living. It was the creature which had lingered outside ...
( Category: Christian Ministry & Church Leadership October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1989-12-31 | Author:W.G. Sebald

the waiter in the green apron had just made his last rounds, when I imagined I heard a horse's hooves on the cobbled square and the sound of carriage wheels; ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Richard Henry Dana Jr

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:John Cowper Powys

What I realized at that time was indeed nothing less than the very thing I had so delighted that Chinaman, as I fumbled towards it, drunk with Corpus wine, by ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1686-01-01 | Author:Sir Thomas Browne [Browne, Sir Thomas]

( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-03 | Author:Thompson, John B. [Thompson, John B.]

( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Werner Herzog [Herzog, Werner]

Iquitos—Camisea, 4 April 1981 Flight from Iquitos to Pucallpa with Faucett, and from there with Aguila’s small plane by way of Sepahua, where I handed over 4 million soles to ...
( Category: Humor October 18,2021 )
azw3 |deu | 1911-01-01 | Author:Hanns Heinz Ewers

Chapter Nine Speaks of Alraune’s lovers and what happened to them. THESE were the five men that loved Alraune ten Brinken: Karl Mohnen, Hans Geroldingen, Wolf Gontram, Jakob ten Brinken ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:W.N.P. Barbellion [Barbellion, W.N.P.]

June 3. We have made a little nest in the wood and I lead her into it by the hand over the briars and undergrowth as if conducting her to ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )