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The Letters Of J. R. R. Tolkien by J. R. R. Tolkien
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-04 | Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

184 To Sam Gamgee [On 13 March, a letter was written to Tolkien by a Mr Sam Gamgee of Brixton Road, London S.W.9: 'I hope you do not mind my ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 7,2017 )
The Prince by unknow
epub, pdf |eng | 1842-01-02 | Author:unknow

Chapter 14 Of the Duty of a Prince In Respect of Military Affairs A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and ...
( Category: Canada October 7,2017 )
Coyote V. Acme by Ian Frazier
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Ian Frazier

[Discard.] Dear Sherman, Please remit all surplus scratch A.S.A.P. to [Discard.] Dear Readers: Sometimes, at the end of the column, I like to take a moment just to chat with ...
( Category: Humor October 7,2017 )
Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Short Stories by Margaret Lucke
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Margaret Lucke

The characters' choices are expressed in their actions. Each action leads to consequences, and each consequence generates the next action: Because this happened, then that happened as a result. Writer ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 7,2017 )
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Jose Saramago

March 26: A Question of Color The text of a dialogue in a TV car ad. A six- or possibly seven-year-old girl sitting in the front passenger seat of a ...
( Category: Authors October 6,2017 )
To Show and to Tell by Phillip Lopate
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Lopate

The Made-Up Self: On the Difficulty of Turning Oneself into a Character The idea that personal essayists and memoirists construct a persona would seem to be self-evident. In The Made-Up ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky
epub |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Sara Paretsky

At the book’s end the psychoanalyst has been so damaged by her beguiling patient that she gives up her professional practice and returns to her parents’ Pennsylvania farm. She has ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 6,2017 )
We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons by Tim Kreider
azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Tim Kreider [Kreider, Tim]

None of this actually has any bearing on the facts of peak oil. Some matters of empirical fact are independent of our ideology or biases, one of them being how ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 6,2017 )
The Dialectics of Liberation by David Cooper
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:David Cooper

Objective Values | Paul Goodman Scientists, like other people, tend to notice what they are interested in. The hypothesis determines the experiment and what is salient has weight as evidence. ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 6,2017 )
We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Kreider

None of this actually has any bearing on the facts of peak oil. Some matters of empirical fact are independent of our ideology or biases, one of them being how ...
( Category: Comic Strips October 6,2017 )
Distant Reading by Franco Moretti
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Franco Moretti

IV The central morphological point of ‘Conjectures’ was the contrast between the rise of the novel in the core as an ‘autonomous development’, and the rise in the periphery as ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction) by Sara Spurgeon
mobi |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Sara Spurgeon [Spurgeon, Sara]

Second Dialogue: Wells Proof that Chigurh has given the gas station man a Socratic gift— however terrifying—follows when we see him kill Wells. The film elides Chigurh’s explanation to Wells ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )
Portrait Inside My Head by Phillip Lopate
epub |eng | | Author:Phillip Lopate

After that first brief encounter I did not see Warren Sonbert for several years, until around 1974, when we bumped into each other, again, in the Lincoln Center area—this time ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 6,2017 )
Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris by LaCava Stephanie
azw3 |eng | 2012-12-04 | Author:LaCava, Stephanie [LaCava, Stephanie]

I didn’t need to go any closer to the mansion. There was no longer someone looking at me through the window, and the swans had gone elsewhere. I knew the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 6,2017 )
Saul Bellow by Taylor Benjamin; Bellow Saul
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Taylor, Benjamin; Bellow, Saul [Taylor, Benjamin; Bellow, Saul]

1968 To Edward Shils January 20, 1968 Chicago Dear Ed: I spoke to your mother yesterday. She complains that she is feeling weak, but she sounded better to me. Her ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 6,2017 )

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