Essays & Correspondence
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-09-10 | Author:Rushdie, Salman [Rushdie, Salman]

THURSDAY, APRIL 13 I am woken at 5:00 A.M. by amplified music and chanting from a mandir, a Hindu temple, across the valley. I get dressed and walk around the ...
( Category: Authors March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * SPEECH: KNEBWORTH, JULY 29, 1865. * * * [On the above date the members of the "Guild of Literature and Art" proceeded to the neighbourhood of Stevenage, ...
( Category: Modern March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

* * * 1858. [Sidenote: Mr. Albert Smith.] TAVISTOCK HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, W.C., Wednesday Night, 1st December, 1858. MY DEAR ALBERT, I cannot tell you how grieved I am ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles Dickens

CHAPTER IX --TO ROME BY PISA AND SIENA * * * There is nothing in Italy, more beautiful to me, than the coast- road between Genoa and Spezzia. On one ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-09-11 | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

The body-snatching of Orwell, however, is a much more specialized task and probably should not be attempted by any known faction. Least of all, perhaps, should it be undertaken by ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-11-22 | Author:David Foster Wallace [WALLACE, DAVID FOSTER]

15 addendum to (14) re Lynch and race Except now for Richard Pryor, has there ever been even like one black person in a David Lynch movie? 35 There’ve been ...
( Category: Humor March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * SELF-SACRIFICE Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * ACT II Behind the Emperor's box at the Coliseum, where the performers assemble before entering the arena. In the middle a wide passage leading to the arena ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:George Bernard Shaw

* * * Under the Whip Clearly this will not do. We must reconcile education with liberty. We must find out some means of making men workers and, if need ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Bill Shapiro [Shapiro, Bill]

Jane: Look, I’m incredibly confused. The couple dated for two months. (return to the letter) Subject: Hey babe They connected on an Internet dating site and e-mailed for a month ...
( Category: Letters March 25,2014 )
epub |zho | 2011-03-22 | Author:Hanif Kureishi [Kureishi, Hanif]

26 FEBRUARY 1987 To Florence by train. The fast and comfortable Italian trains and the businessmen around me in their sharp clothes. The care they take: everything matches; not a ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub | | 2010-05-08 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM A FAN THE other day, one who had bought a copy of Agent of Byzantium by Harry Turtledove, which appeared in a series entitled „Isaac ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Ephron, Delia [Ephron, Delia]

#THEHAIRREPORT I don’t care about the weather. I care only what the weather is going to do to my hair. Filling this gap in coverage—surprising, given how much weather reporting ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alan Coren [Coren, Alan]

Time Check IN all the 31 years, 8 months, 22 days, 13 hours and 27 minutes that I had been writing regularly for The Times, I had never been as ...
( Category: European March 25,2014 )