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The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down by Howard Mansfield
epub |eng | 2018-10-18 | Author:Howard Mansfield

A stranger has come to town. He has suitcases full of money. He wants your land. Will you sell? Does everyone have a price? Is everything for sale—every last piece ...
( Category: Anthologies August 11,2019 )
Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

CHAPTER V - AES TRIPLEX * * * THE changes wrought by death are in themselves so sharp and final, and so terrible and melancholy in their consequences, that the ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

* * * THE BOTTLE IMP. Note. - Any student of that very unliterary product, the English drama of the early part of the century, will here recognise the name ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
Letters of Anton Chekhov by Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich [Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich]

TO N. A. LEIKIN. GORBITSA, June 20, 1890. Greetings, dear Nikolay Alexandrovitch! I wrote you this as I approached Gorbitsa, one of the Cossack settlements on the banks of the ...
( Category: Letters August 6,2019 )
McKettrick's Pride by Miller Linda Lael
epub |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]

CHAPTER 10 RANCE WATCHED, WITH HIS damnable McKettrick pride jammed up tight in his throat, as Jesse got out of his mud-spattered truck at the top of the driveway and ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2019 )
Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Wendell Berry

With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone the weaver is ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
What This Cruel War Was Over by Chandra Manning
epub |eng | 2008-03-11 | Author:Chandra Manning [Manning, Chandra]

“Rising step by step to the summit of liberty and equal rights” Black Union soldiers knew with perfect clarity that breaking slavery’s chain meant inaugurating a freedom defined by basic ...
( Category: Letters August 3,2019 )
Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 3,2019 )
Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker by Kathleen Hale
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Kathleen Hale [Hale, Kathleen]

Cricket Miss Georgia wept as if her entire family had died. She hugged her bouquet of thorny roses and was swallowed up in a group hug by her enemies. While ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
A Savage Life by Michael Savage
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Michael Savage

Seventeen My Silent Brother I REMEMBER THE DAY THEY GAVE JEROME AWAY. MY UNCLE Murray was crying like a baby in front of the South Bronx tenement we lived in. ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
Talking to Strangers by Paul Auster
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Auster

IV … with the conviction that, in the end, translating is madness. —MAURICE BLANCHOT As I was about to embark on the project of editing this anthology, a friend gave ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Farmer's Glory by A G Street
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:A G Street [Street, A G]

We went over on the Friday, and took him two live turkeys and a bottle of White Horse whisky. All this sort of thing may seem childish, but at the ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
The Crack-Up by F Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 1964-06-15 | Author:F Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F Scott]

M MOMENTS (WHAT PEOPLE DO) Dogs: We went through a routine, with a lot of false starts, charges, leg and throat holds, rolling over, and escapes. I only barked a ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
Words and Worlds by Alison Lurie
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Alison Lurie

a middle-aged man— but time, gender, self are laws waived by his gold fan. A pearl-diver, a benevolent ghost, and a dancing dragon; that sounds about right. Bon voyage! I ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2019 )

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