Essays & Correspondence
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:John Steinbeck
MUSSOLINI LONDON, August 9, 1943—The ship was in mid-ocean when Mussolini resigned. Rumor ran among the soldiers and the crew and the Army nurses that something important had happened. Then, ...
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Essays & Correspondence
November 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1995-10-31 | Author:John Steinbeck
“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
November 4,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-26 | Author:Shawcross, William [William, Shawcross,]
At one communal feeding centre, there was a moment, noted Woolton, at which 'a very dirty child' in its mother's arms grabbed at the Queen's pearls. A photographer ran around ...
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Europe
November 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Nadine Gordimer [Gordimer, Nadine]
The Idea of Gardening J. M. Coetzee’s The Life and Times of Michael K Allegory is generally regarded as a superior literary form. It is thought to clear the reader’s ...
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Essays & Correspondence
October 31,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith
September 21st. I put my smoker into operation again. I kept it going all day, and while all the meat except the hindquarters cured in the smoke, I worked on ...
( Category:
Travel Writing
October 30,2017 )
epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Aldous Huxley & Aldous Huxley
APPENDICES I. Two other, less effective aids to visionary experience deserve mention—carbon dioxide and the stroboscopic lamp. A mixture (completely non-toxic) of seven parts of oxygen and three of carbon ...
( Category:
Philosophy
October 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:W. Somerset Maugham
XI * George Allerton had changed since he left England. The flesh had fallen away from his bones, and his face was sallow. He had not stood the climate well. ...
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Essays
October 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]
BUDDHA IT SEEMED TO me that there was more of this in the humble little monasteries that I had passed on the road hither. With their wooden walls and thatched ...
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Reference
October 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]
The cold was bad. The dead numbness of the toes, the cold slowly working its way up into the calves of his legs and setting in under his knees. His ...
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Short Stories & Anthologies
October 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Lewis Grizzard [Grizzard, Lewis]
BOSTON BOSTON—AS I SIT on my rump smoking cigarettes and typing this, I can still see runners coming in from the suburb of Hopkinton, 26 miles and 385 yards from ...
( Category:
Humor
October 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Perry
2001 The Osmotic Elvis The first thing I remember about Elvis is that he was dead. The news was postdated, and obtained in oblique fashion, but that, as it turns ...
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Essays & Correspondence
October 26,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-02-19 | Author:Erma Bombeck
One of the most watchable animals in the wild kingdom is the gorilla. He will belch, hoot, bark, cry, roar, do somersaults, slide down a hill on his stomach, spin ...
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Humor
October 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1854-01-02 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]
VILLAGE After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the ...
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United States
October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 1979-01-02 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]
PRESIDENT ADMITS WITHHOLDING DATA TAPES SHOW HE APPROVED COVER-UP Every half-hour on the half-hour, WXRA -- the truckers' station over in Alexandria -- keeps babbling more and more hideous news ...
( Category:
Americas
October 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chelsea Cain [Cain, Chelsea]
Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green ...
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Essays & Correspondence
October 24,2017 )
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