Essays & Correspondence
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Steinbeck
At about ten o’clock the news came. Thinking about such things afterwards, you never can remember quite what transpired. Someone comes in; a whisper starts; suddenly everyone knows what has ...
( Category:
Short Stories
September 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-07-24 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]
man' was a pattern. The solitude, the will towards excellence, the courage, the self-conscious turning away from that in which he no longer believes, which is Dublin life, and turning ...
( Category:
European
September 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-07 | Author:Is There a Nutmeg in the House
Kedgeree Among the famous rice dishes of the world, from the beautiful and simple saffron risotto of Lombardy to the reckless blend of fish, chicken, vegetables and rice which makes ...
( Category:
Herbs, Spices & Condiments
September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]
Italo Calvino I had left the draft of this letter in Turin; then I left for Rome and have not been back here for three weeks. I am signing it ...
( Category:
European
September 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-15 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]
* * * never tired of believing (though he was also able to discern less obvious things in Italians: their lack of confidence, their anxiety, their caution). Whatever the original ...
( Category:
History & Criticism
September 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Heinrich von Kleist [Kleist, Heinrich von]
ON THE GRADUAL FORMULATION OF THOUGHTS WHILE SPEAKING To R. v. L.* · · · If you want to know something and can’t find it out through meditation, then I ...
( Category:
Essays
September 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Joseph Mitchell
Mr. Hunter refolded the ribbon and returned it to his wallet. Then he put the hoe back on his shoulder, and we entered the cemetery. A little road went halfway ...
( Category:
Urban
August 28,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:George Orwell [Orwell, George]
* * * *One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen ...
( Category:
Politics & Government
August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]
Fleet Street’s Finest: From Waugh to Frayn JAMES BOND DOES NOT MAKE an appearance until Part Two of what is perhaps his most polished adventure, From Russia with Love. And ...
( Category:
Conservatism & Liberalism
August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sainath, P [Sainath, P]
Crime & No Punishment Targeting the poor Going to court in some parts of rural India can be quite an experience. Many dalits and adivasis have found it so. Often, ...
( Category:
Travel
August 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul Theroux [Theroux, Paul]
There is a bad dream which everyone suffers. It takes place in a large overbright room, filled with people going, "Quack! Quack!" You know every person in the room, and ...
( Category:
Travel
August 21,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:John Gardner
or In the so-called periodic sentence, highly recommended by high-school English teachers, the most interesting or important thing in the sentence is pushed into the final slot, as in "Down ...
( Category:
Fiction
August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-06 | Author:Dave Barry [Barry, Dave]
Are you bringing in any cocaine? How about Charles Manson? And so on. But the Bahamas’ forms didn’t ask anything like this. Instead, they asked—this is a real question—“Has plague ...
( Category:
Business & Professional
August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-10-23 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]
JOURNEY TO NINE MILES By five o’clock we were awake, listening to the soothing slapping of the surf, and watching the sky redden over the ocean. By six we were ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
July 31,2014 )
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