Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2016-10-23 | Author:Farr, Evelyn
‘The Empress of Russia has written to the King of Prussia to invite him in a most urgent manner to take part with her in vigorous measures to render unto ...
( Category:
Letters
October 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:Johanna Skibsrud
* * * 1 “It is high time,” writes Marx, “that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet ...
( Category:
Poetry
October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Riley
Two years and ten months later: No time at all. No time. Three years after: And by now I’ve stopped making these notes. What follows is a postscript, drawing on ...
( Category:
Love Poems
October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Milan Kundera
10 I open the biography of Hemingway published in 1985 by Jeffrey Meyers, a professor of literature in an American university, and I read the passage on "Hills Like White ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
October 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-08 | Author:Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Dead Man Talking Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Dear Cousin Neil, The day after my father died, I went to the funeral home to view his body. He’d been sick for ...
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Astrophysics & Space Science
October 9,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Shiv Aroor & Rahul Singh [Aroor, Shiv & Singh, Rahul]
8 ‘Climb over Me, Get to the Submarine!’ Lieutenant Commander Firdaus Mogal Arabian Sea, 220 km off the Mumbai coast 30 August 2010, 6.55 a.m. ‘THREE MEN OVERBOARD, SIR!’ Seventy ...
( Category:
Essays
October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Blaise Pascal [Pascal, Blaise]
*[Pyrrhus, pressed to justify his plans for world conquest, reputedly answered that his ultimate purpose was to rest content, but not before realizing his dreams of conquest.]
( Category:
Renaissance
October 8,2019 )
epub |fra | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert]
* * * 146 Robert Hass / 1999 its drained tongue as dead driftwood soaking the vein as these words float up out of body in a joke sharpened in ...
( Category:
Anthologies
October 8,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:John Updike
Every true story has an anticlimax. The men on the field refused to disappear, as would have seemed decent, in the smoke of Williams’ miracle. Fisher continued to pitch, and ...
( Category:
Essays
October 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Boris Johnson
The information confounded him still more; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book, sat upon a window-seat and read. . . . The cheering sound ...
( Category:
Essays
October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Leslie Jamison
You could call Annie committed, or you could call her obsessed. Obsessed with seeing María and her family evolve across the decades, and obsessed with the elusive horizon of a ...
( Category:
Essays
October 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-29 | Author:Alberto Manguel
JOB The question is: What is he waiting for? He was, the Holy Book tells us, a perfect and upright man, one who feared God, and eschewed evil. He was ...
( Category:
Essays
September 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]
The young convert at Yokohama proved a noteworthy example of missionary failures. Within a few years after having sacrificed a fortune in order to become a Christian,—or rather the member ...
( Category:
Japanese
September 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn [Hearn, Lafcadio]
Curiously enough, the people spoke harshly concerning the mother of the boy—holding her to blame for the haunting. I thought it very strange at first, not because I had formed ...
( Category:
Essays
September 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-04 | Author:Marion Winik
The Werewolf DIED 2013 AT PARTIES BY THE turquoise pool, eating pescado Veracruz and drinking Mexican beer, her friends have no idea. He’s a little quiet for this boho crowd, ...
( Category:
Essays
September 27,2019 )
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