Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | | Author:Maeve Brennan [Brennan, Maeve]

Mr. Sam Bidner and His Saxophone NOT one man of the amiable company having dinner together at the Adano Restaurant on New Year’s Eve held a lower rank than captain. ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Anna Quindlen

THE PERFECT VICTIM October 16, 1991 She seemed the perfect victim. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that she was the perfect person to teach us that there ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-07 | Author:Tony Chandler [Chandler, Tony]

Chapter Fifteen Kyle, Rok, Jaric and Inaha strolled through the open hatchway. The Aurora had just landed and the four immediately set out to cross through the array of parked ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2001-08-31 | Author:Nancy Milford [Milford, Nancy]

CHAPTER 21 That February, after attending a concert of Deems Taylor’s “Portrait of a Lady,” Millay wrote a letter to the anonymous music editor of the New York World, who ...
( Category: Specific Groups August 31,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:W.G. Sebald [Sebald, W.G.]

The Character of Hermann Ott For this very reason the story of Hermann Ott that forms the backbone of the Diary, and is used by the author to offer the ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 1949-06-08 | Author:George Orwel [Orwel, George]

* * * PART III I He did not know where he was. Presumably he was in the Ministry of Love, but there was no way of making certain. He ...
( Category: Classics August 31,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Porter, Katherine Anne [Porter, Katherine Anne]

The Cracked Looking-Glass DENNIS heard Rosaleen talking in the kitchen and a man’s voice answering. He sat with his hands dangling over his knees, and thought for the hundredth time ...
( Category: United States August 31,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1938-03-28 | Author:Howard Phillips Lovecraft [Lovecraft, Howard Phillips]

Chapter 9 The Weird Tradition in the British Isles Recent British literature, besides including the three or four greatest fantaisistes of the present age, has been gratifyingly fertile in the ...
( Category: Mystery August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Arthur Schopenhauer & Arthur Schopenhauer

23 The difference between the genius and the normal intelligence is, to be sure, only a quantitative one, in so far as it is only a difference of degree: one ...
( Category: Philosophy August 31,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-10-17 | Author:Epictetus

II 21 On inconsistency [1] People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance. No one, at any rate,∗ will admit to ...
( Category: Philosophy August 31,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Edmund Burke

Among the standards upon which the effects of government on any country are to be estimated, I must consider the state of its population as not the least certain. No ...
( Category: Europe August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Guy Davenport

WE OFTEN THINK OF LENIN AT THE CLOTHESPIN FACTORY A city, not Paris. NOTCH, an old woman in a chair made from a barrel, beside a tall porcelain stove, a ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Epstein

15 Intellectual Snobbery, or The (Million or So) Happy Few SNOBBERY has traditionally been founded on birth, access to power, fame, in some quarters wealth, and (on occasion) knowledge. But ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2000-08-31 | Author:William S. Burroughs

March 17, 1997. Monday Garbage put-out day. Mutie is ill. The lady vet came to get her yesterday. When she wouldn’t eat, I knew she was sick. Call today. Yes, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 31,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-30 | Author:Rebecca Solnit

AWAKENINGS AND COINCIDENCES One can imagine the characters of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful new history, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves, as they ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 30,2017 )