Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 2011-09-23 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

Granny Weatherwax was gathering Herbs when they came up the track. Everyday herbs of sickroom and kitchen are known as simples. Granny's Herbs weren't simples. They were complicateds or they ...
( Category: Short Story Collections August 26,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Dorie Mccullough Lawson [Lawson, Dorie Mccullough]

William James and daughter Margaret Mark Twain and family (Clara far left, wife, Olivia, second from left, Jean center, and Susie far right) The Pleasures of Life JOHN ADAMS TO ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-13 | Author:Dorie McCullough Lawson

William James and daughter Margaret Mark Twain and family (Clara far left, wife, Olivia, second from left, Jean center, and Susie far right) The Pleasures of Life JOHN ADAMS TO ...
( Category: Historical August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-13 | Author:Natalia Ginzburg

Silence I heard Pelléas et Mélisande. I know nothing about music, but I found myself comparing words from old opera libretti (‘I will atone with my blood—the love which I ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-20 | Author:Christos Chrissopoulos

WE HAVE DETERMINED 1. To fix as our clear objectives the destruction by explosion of ancient monuments and the dissemination of propaganda against antiquities as well as against everything we ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-08-13 | Author:Gore Vidal

* * * To further undo JFK’s delicate physical balance, along with the cortisone that he took regularly, there was his reliance on—addiction to, in fact—the amphetamines that the shady ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-26 | Author:Horatio Morpurgo [Horatio Morpurgo]

NIGHT FALLS, QUICKLY The travel narratives of the early explorers are riddled with memory-holes and evasions: dates that don’t agree, glaring omissions, the merest glimpses of what we should now ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-17 | Author:Hilda Doolittle [Doolittle, Hilda]

[29] It was not solely because of beauty though there was that too, it was discovery, discovery that exalted him for he knew the old tradition, the old, old legend, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 26,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-04-04 | Author:Henry Miller [Miller, Henry]

MADEMOISELLE CLAUDE PREVIOUSLY, WHEN I began to write this tale, I set out by saying that Mlle. Claude was a whore. She is a whore, of course, and I’m not ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-06-29 | Author:Shawn Wen

M. ON VIDEO He doesn’t translate well. His movements are slow. Disjointed. A bag of bones. Can’t hold your attention. You fast-forward through entire scenes. Did you go too far? ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:Eleanor Brown

I never made that first move. It would have been so nice to have a romantic adventure in the city of romance. To have a dream come true. But it ...
( Category: Europe August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Marilyn Monroe [Monroe, Marilyn]

Norman—so hard to please when all I want is to tease So it might rhyme So what’s the crime? When I’ve spent all this After all this time on earth ...
( Category: Movies August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-13 | Author:Allan Cameron [Cameron, Allan]

On the Soul The soul is out of fashion, except amongst fanatical believers who have, no doubt, a different idea of what it is. For them it is a rigid, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-11-03 | Author:Joan Didion [Didion, Joan]

The insistent sentimentalization of experience, which is to say the encouragement of such reliance, is not new in New York. A preference for broad strokes, for the distortion and flattening ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 25,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Sergio Pitol [Pitol, Sergio]

TRAVELING AND WRITING For Julio Ortega I amused myself recently rereading some fragments in an autobiographical notebook written some thirty years ago. I was hoping to find in its pages ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 25,2017 )