Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2017-02-01 | Author:Edward McPherson
Chasing the Boundary: Boom and Bust on the High Prairie Once again, the story begins with fire, some primeval attraction to light in the darkness. A time-lapse video looking down ...
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Essays & Correspondence
December 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-02 | Author:Matthew Vollmer
GONG BANG CLEANSE The last time I visited my parents, my father, who has been a dentist in a small mountain town for over forty years, told, as he often ...
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United States
November 30,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Branscum [Branscum, John; Thomas, Wayne]
R. T. Smith The Carter Scratch What solitude and simmer gave birth to this sweet mix, one country woman strumming a duet, melody running the bass but the up-strings thumb-brushed ...
( Category:
United States
November 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
November 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-24 | Author:Phillip Lopate [Lopate, Phillip]
The rest of the story is an illustration of the adage that one might as well be hanged for a wolf as a sheep. Kidd plunders and seizes ships, robs ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-23 | Author:Ward Farnsworth
Chapter Seven WHAT OTHERS THINK This chapter considers the Stoic way of looking at approval and criticism – that is, what others think. The approval may be the immediate kind ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-17 | Author:Mary-Kay Wilmers
Vita wrote on the train from Boulogne to Amiens. On 14 February Harold and Denys Trefusis flew to Amiens in a two-seater aero-plane and reclaimed their respective wives. (‘Quite like ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 18,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rochelle Riley
OBJECT LESSONS RE-ENCOUNTERING SLAVERY THROUGH ROSE’S GIFT Mark Auslander As a teacher and museum director, I often struggle with how to convey the unimaginable horror of chattel slavery to my ...
( Category:
Sociology
November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John McPhee
IN THE LONG DRY VALLEYS of eastern Nevada, where rain-hadow rain falls in desert rations and the silence is so deep it rings, water has been in storage for about ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-20 | Author:Tom McCarthy
From Feedback to Reflux Kafka’s Cybernetics of Revolt LETTER TO HIS FATHER (the “original” title, the one Max Brod baptized the text with after Kafka’s death, is Brief an den—the, ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1919-01-01 | Author:Woolf, Virginia [Woolf, Virginia]
CHAPTER XXI MARY WALKED TO THE nearest station and reached home in an incredibly short space of time, just so much, indeed, as was needed for the intelligent understanding of ...
( Category:
Classics
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:Trelawny, Edward John [Trelawny, Edward John]
That was an insurmountable impediment to confidential intercourse with her husband. Whenever the Poet wrote on the subject of love, however abstract or ideal, she misconstrued this, and considered it ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1903-01-10 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]
If I have described life as a flux of moods, I must now add, that there is that in us which changes not, and which ranks all sensations and states ...
( Category:
Essays & Correspondence
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1849-01-15 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]
The cars never pause to look at it; yet I fancy that the engineers and firemen and brakemen, and those passengers who have a season ticket and see it often, ...
( Category:
United States
November 12,2018 )
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