Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Clive James [James, Clive]

Postscript In the communist world, lip service to elections first became conspicuous after World War II, when the Party apparatus in the satellite countries of Eastern Europe had developed the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1981-06-24 | Author:La Rochefoucauld

Perseverance should be neither praised nor blamed, since it is only the continuance of tastes and emotions which we can neither shed nor acquire. 178 What makes us like new ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:C.J. English [English, C.J.]

(3) If a text seems “off,” it might be a trap and he’ll respond with I think I have the wrong number? Who is this? If it is me, then ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-05-10 | Author:Freeman, John [Freeman, John]

His sister, Helen, was unexpectedly born breech. The cord became trapped while her head was coming out and she was deprived of oxygen. Daniel is not told about this until ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 24,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Reid, S.A. [Reid, S.A.]

Dear Julia, I hope this letter finds you well. It has been unseasonably warm here this autumn but with so little rain, that is perhaps to be expected. I am ...
( Category: Economics November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:O'Connor, Flannery [O'Connor, Flannery]

To John Hawkes 27 July 58 I haven’t written and thanked you for the books because I have been reading them. I braved the Faulkner, without tragic results. Probably the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Twain, Mark [Twain, Mark]

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( Category: Classics November 23,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-11-23 | Author:Stefan Zweig [Stefan Zweig]

The Fleet Crosses the Mountain The exuberant delight of the besieged citizens lasts for a night, and night always beguiles the senses with fantasy, confusing hope with the sweet poison ...
( Category: World November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor & Deborah Devonshire

[1] The Mitford family emblem is a mole. 13 March 1980 (My Dad’s birthday, he’d have been 103) Chatsworth Bakewell Darling Paddy, Now then. What are Hoary Morning, Bedfordshire Foundling, ...
( Category: Memoirs November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Margot Kahn & Kelly McMasters

Tara Conklin’s first novel, The House Girl, was a New York Times bestseller, #1 IndieNext pick and Target Club pick, and has been translated into eight languages. Her second novel, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:James Salter

Racing for the Cup At seven thirty in the morning, the loudspeakers begin announcing in German. It is the dead of winter. The mountains are barely visible. Lights are just ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-11-23 | Author:Ursula K. Le Guin [Guin, Ursula K. Le]

Now this is what I want: I want to hear your judgments. I am sick of the silence of women. I want to hear you speaking all the languages, offering ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Johnson

Loose Thread on the Silk Road October 31, 2014 Sanliurfa, Turkey, 37°08’54” N 38°47’24” E We parked the mule on the Euphrates and took a hire car to Edessa: a ...
( Category: United States November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cynthia Ozick

In 1905, to drop the r was to drop, for the cultivated ear, a principle of taste; but for our democratic noblewomen four decades on, exactly the reverse was true. ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Bellassai

ON MY TROUBLED HISTORY WITH FASHION I have no idea what to wear. And I don’t mean right now, because right now I’m wearing gym shorts, socks, and a T-shirt, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 23,2017 )