20th Century
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Conisbee Baer;

The story of The Plumed Serpent is that of Kate Leslie, an upper-middle-class, white European visitor to Mexico who becomes erotically embroiled in a feudalistic (counter)revolutionary vanguard movement. The movement ...
( Category: Modern March 26,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Keating

TABLE 4.4 Single Shot Capturing Several Variations on the Two-Shot in For Me and My Gal (1942) Composition Jo: Placement—Scale—Position Jimmy: Placement—Scale—Position 1 Left—Full Shot—Standing Right—Medium Long Shot—Seated 2 Left—Full ...
( Category: Modern March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Steve Almond;

* As an example, let me revisit another dispute with a publisher, for whom I wrote a book about the moral atrocities of football. The central point of contention between ...
( Category: Modern March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Cheney;

4 Improper Arts: The Mad Man The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Carpentier Brown

Gilbert and Frances, trip to Palestine, 1919 Gilbert giving a talk at Fernley, the home of Ethel and Lucian Oldershaw. To Gilbert’s left: Lucian Oldershaw, Frances, an unknown minister, and ...
( Category: Modern March 5,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2019-01-11 | Author:Jan Weiss

XXVI Monte Carlo in Gedonia · Prima ballerina · "I don’t believe in your stars... " · Caesar Marlok, God of the Great Sun The princess raises her stakes · ...
( Category: Dystopian February 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-07-06 | Author:James McNaughton

Heading to the Abattoir Traditionally, interpretations of The Unnamable center on readings limited to how the book troubles language, representation, and subjectivity. The Unnamable, as already said, is written from ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-09 | Author:Simon Gikandi

The Modern Drama of Independence A decolonized image of self remains an unfulfilled utopian impulse in Selvon’s early texts; what remains at the end of the quest for the modernist ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:David Day [Day, David]

Noldor Elves NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and ...
( Category: Modern January 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Graham Greene & John R. Macarthur

GRAHAM GREENE was born in 1904 in Berkhamsted, the son of a school headmaster and part of the family that owned the Greene King brewery empire. Quickly discovering his love ...
( Category: Modern November 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Leah Price

seldom does lie quiet, and you have either to cramp your hand by holding it, or else to put it on the table with a paraphernalia of matters to keep ...
( Category: Modern August 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Barlow, Richard;

“THE PICKTS ARE HACKING THE SAXUMS” At bedtime the twins “jerry” (FW, 565.10) and “keve” (565.15), versions of Shem and Shaun, respectively, are slightly traumatized by the nocturnal sight of ...
( Category: Modern April 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Reiner Stach [Stach, Reiner]

III. cont. What to do on rainy days. Or possibly on the last day. Art gallery, on the cheap day. Only a few important pictures. But in thorough detail (like ...
( Category: Modern March 12,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-16 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates

That there was something inside Fern I didn’t know. That I didn’t know her in the way I’d always thought I did. That Fern had secrets and not the good ...
( Category: Modern September 23,2016 )