Essays & Correspondence
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sean Michael [Michael, Sean]

*** Found - 157 Curled up in the armchair, Montana dozed, blinking at the game on the TV. He wasn't into football, really, and he'd eaten more than he'd eaten ...
( Category: Americas October 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Joseph Brodsky

IV By standing next to the woman, the man acquires her vantage point. Because he is larger than she, and also because this is his house (as line 23 shows), ...
( Category: Essays October 6,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas de Quincey

May 1818. The Malay has been a fearful enemy for months. I have been every night, through his means, transported into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether others share in ...
( Category: Authors October 3,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-09-18 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

Edward Hyde (small) But if you lode closely you see that within this big, luminous, pleasantly tweedy Jekyll there are scattered rudiments of evil. When the magic drug starts to ...
( Category: Fiction September 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:The Economist [Economist, The]

In charts: Terror in western Europe The foiled train attack also raises fresh questions about Schengen. Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, says the rules should undergo “adaptation”. Spanish intelligence ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 16,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:The Economist

Turkish politics The gambler The president rolls the dice by calling new elections Aug 29th 2015 | ISTANBUL | From the print edition WHEN he became Turkey’s first popularly elected ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 16,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Twinkle Khanna [Khanna, Twinkle]

As I make a mental note to go everywhere with my hands perched on my midsection, I begin to wonder will I truly look wonderfully lean or will I be ...
( Category: Essays September 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 1990-09-16 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov [Nabokov, Vladimir]

I can't make the comparison between a visual impression and my scribble on index cards, which I always see first when I think of my novels. The verbal part of ...
( Category: Essays August 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Wood

It is all here, in this beautiful passage: criticism as passionate creation (“as if for the first time”); criticism as modesty, as the mind putting the “understanding” into abeyance (“he ...
( Category: Essays August 28,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1976-06-09 | Author:Frederik Pohl [Pohl, Frederik]

I woke up in a strange room. . . . Well, I am no traitor, though I may be about to become one, here in this room with a city ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence August 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Siegfried had not yet been in the trenches. I told him, in my old-soldier manner, that he would soon change his style. That night, the whole battalion went up to ...
( Category: World War I August 5,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-10-02 | Author:Jonathan Franzen [Franzen, Jonathan]

FIRST CITY Two things that happened this year got me wondering why American cities in general and New York City in particular still bother to exist. The first was a ...
( Category: Essays August 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Franz Kafka [Kafka, Franz]

[Prague, August 7, 1920] Saturday Am I really kind and patient? I don’t know about that, but I do know that such a telegram does the whole body good, so ...
( Category: Authors July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-21 | Author:Musil, Robert [Musil, Robert]

It’s Lovely Here There are many people who on their vacations are drawn to famous places. They drink beer in their hotel gardens, and if in addition they happen to ...
( Category: European July 28,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-12 | Author:Nick Rennison [Rennison, Nick]

Illustrated Robin Most people have their own image of Robin Hood but there are certain elements which are common to nearly all the pictures of the iconic outlaw that individuals ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals July 25,2015 )