History
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-07-26 | Author:Denis Diderot [Diderot, Denis]

MARQUIS: Succeeded! I could not begin to tell you quite how much. Will you not take pity on me? Shall I not be indebted to you for the joy of ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1998-03-30 | Author:Anne Carson

on the sweaty black cobblestones of the city waiting for night’s end. Traffic crashed past him. He covered his mouth and nose with his hand as five old buses came ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Anna Akhmatova [Akhmatova, Anna]

Friendship is weak and useless here,​ and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire,​ because the soul is free and does not know​ the slow luxuries of sensual life. ...
( Category: Poetry October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Nate Silver [Silver, Nate]

The other 94 percent of the time, the Lawyer starts out with a worse hand than ours. The problem is that there are five cards still left to come, and ...
( Category: Accounting October 19,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich]

( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:F.R. Leavis [Leavis, F.R.]

The influence of Dickens is plain here. It is the Dickens, not, as in The Princess Casamassima, of Little Dorrit, but of Martin Chuzzlewit. This passage of Roderick Hudson, of ...
( Category: African History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-05-28 | Author:D.H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D.H.]

The negro might know a little. When the vine was rose, Gods were dark-skinned. Bacchus is a dream’s dream. Once God was all negroid, as now he is fair. But ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Gabriele D'Annunzio

CHAPTER IV Maria Ferres had always remained faithful to her youthful habit of noting daily in an intimate journal her thoughts, joys, sadness, dreams, troubles, aspirations, regrets, hopes, all the ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:William Dalrymple [Dalrymple, William]

Ten days later, on 25 August 1780, the Company’s largest concentration of troops in southern India finally marched out of Madras and headed south along the coast road towards Kanchipuram ...
( Category: Architecture October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-06 | Author:Vince Beiser [Beiser, Vince]

* * * — The only real way to completely avoid the pitfalls of beach nourishment while also saving coastal cities is to move those cities inland. Retreat is a ...
( Category: American History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-11-06 | Author:W.G. Sebald & Anthea Bell (translator)

The entire building, from the outside more like a mansion house than anything else, therefore consists of four wings, each not much more than three meters deep, set around the ...
( Category: World Literature October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1892-01-01 | Author:Gabriele D'Annunzio [D'Annunzio, Gabriele]

XIV. In the violence of my multiple and contrary agitations, in the first tumult of pain, beneath the menace of imminent perils, I had not yet had the leisure to ...
( Category: African History October 19,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Rebecca Lamb [Lamb, Rebecca]

Belgrade IX We grew eager to leave Belgrade, and start on the trip we were to take with Constantine through Macedonia and Old Serbia, though nothing unpleasant was happening to ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 19,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2013-06-03 | Author:Jonathan Crary

CHAPTER FOUR Chris Marker’s La jetée (1962) opens in a post-apocalyptic future where surviving humans inhabit cramped underground spaces beneath destroyed cities in permanent exile from daylight. The authorities in ...
( Category: Accounting October 19,2021 )
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 )