Humor
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1958-10-17 | Author:John Steinbeck
MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
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World War II
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Roger Rosenblatt
Chapter 5 Writing Like a Reader Before we go on to poems—I had asked the students to write their poems for the class after this one—I want to take up ...
( Category:
Mental Health
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.D. Robb
Chapter Twelve 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Eve was a lot steadier walking ...
( Category:
Police Procedurals
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-12 | Author:Jonathan Swift
They both unanimously entered upon this great work, looking sometimes on their coats and sometimes on the will. Martin laid the first hand; at one twitch brought off a large ...
( Category:
Satire
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-03-15 | Author:Jonathan Swift
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MODEST PROPOSAL *** ***** This file should be named ...
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European
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-19 | Author:Okrent, Arika [Okrent, Arika]
Blissymbolics was in some ways a throwback to the seventeenth-century philosophical languages. Bliss broke down the world into essential elements of meaning and derived all other concepts through combination. But ...
( Category:
Puns & Wordplay
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:H.L. Mencken
2. THE ADVANCE OF AMERICAN SPELLING But such uncompromising defenders of English spelling lead a forlorn hope. Not only is there a general movement toward American forms in the newspapers ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-31 | Author:Guy Deutscher
THE PRISON-HOUSE OF LANGUAGE By far the most famous claim that Nietzsche never made was: “We have to cease to think if we refuse to do so in the prison-house ...
( Category:
Economics
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Crystal, David [Crystal, David]
48 Lakh A Word from India (17th century) Here are two recent newspaper headlines from India. Nearly 5 lakh foreigners throng India for cheap treatment Rs 50-lakh divorce for runaway ...
( Category:
Etymology
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-27 | Author:Adam Jacot De Boinod
A life of crime Italian offers a rich vocabulary for different types of crime and criminal. Smonta, for example, is a theft carried out on a bus or train from ...
( Category:
Word Lists
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1992-09-01 | Author:Sinclair Lewis
CHAPTER XIX I IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, ...
( Category:
Satire
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Bill Bryson
12 Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America In 1846 an Irish immigrant in New York named Alexander Stewart opened a business on Broadway called the Marble Dry-Goods Palace and in so ...
( Category:
Linguistics
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Lynne Truss
The big final rule for the comma is one that you won’t find in any books by grammarians. It is quite easy to remember, however. The rule is: don’t use ...
( Category:
Vocabulary
March 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-07 | Author:Forsyth, Mark [Forsyth, Mark]
2 ‘Head Over Feet’ (1996) by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard. Chapter 19 Isocolon Roses are red. Violets are blue. That, at its simplest, is isocolon. Two clauses that are ...
( Category:
Etymology
March 25,2014 )
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