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The Letters of Cole Porter by Cole Porter
epub |eng | | Author:Cole Porter

* Rodgers and Hammerstein’s third Broadway musical, Allegro, opened on 10 October 1947. * Morgan Harjes & Co. was a Paris-based investment bank founded in 1868 by John H. Harjes. ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals December 17,2019 )
The Lady from Arezzo by Alfred Brendel
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Alfred Brendel [Alfred Brendel]

Why has this question resulted in so much confusion? Part of the blame lies with the printed editions. Max Friedländer’s creditable one, probably the most frequently used for a long ...
( Category: Essays December 17,2019 )
Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
epub |eng | 2004-02-02 | Author:Richard Rodriguez

III Now. I go to mass every Sunday. Old habits persist. But it is an English mass I attend, a ritual of words. A ritual that seeks to feed my ...
( Category: Hispanic American Studies December 17,2019 )
The Way Home by Mark Boyle
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Mark Boyle

~ As the pike lies dead on the butcher’s block, fierce and beautiful and ancient and strong, I remember the moment I killed him. He was flipping around on the ...
( Category: Wildlife December 17,2019 )
The Bad Side of Books by D.H. Lawrence
epub |eng | 2019-09-03 | Author:D.H. Lawrence

as every child knows. Ah, if only they’d taken them off! Greater novels, to my mind, are the books of the Old Testament, Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, by authors whose ...
( Category: European December 17,2019 )
The Pizza Party by Theo Baker
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Theo Baker [Baker, Theo]

After Frankie and Ashley had left, and after Fidel himself had personally brought over a piping hot pizza, Papa Pete and I sat and talked over my third dinner of ...
( Category: School December 17,2019 )
Yellow Notebook by Helen Garner
epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Helen Garner

1985 ‘Have you been in my room?’ ‘No. Downstairs. ‘Listening to us fighting?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Where were you?’ ‘Under the stairs, near the telephone.’ ‘Did you hear everything?’ ‘Yes.’ (Hand over ...
( Category: Diaries & Journals December 17,2019 )
Broken Republic by Arundhati Roy
epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Arundhati Roy [Roy, Arundhati]

A TRANSIENT MEMORIAL TO THE MARTYRS How easily the People’s Army can turn upon the people. Today the Party wants to keep the bauxite in the mountain. Tomorrow will it ...
( Category: Historical December 17,2019 )
Think, Write, Speak by Vladimir Nabokov & Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy
epub |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Vladimir Nabokov & Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy

* “On Learning Russian,” The Wellesley Magazine, April 1945, 191–92. A note heads the article: “The College offers this year, for the first time, a six hour course in elementary ...
( Category: United States December 17,2019 )
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
epub |eng | 2019-10-20 | Author:Elena Ferrante

Literary Novelty 21 July 2018 There was a phase—fortunately long past—when I was convinced that a story either had to be absolutely new, comparable to nothing but itself, or it ...
( Category: Essays December 17,2019 )
The Markandeya Purana by Bibek Debroy
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Bibek Debroy

Chapter 59 ‘Markandeya continued, “While he was speaking in this way, the garhapatya fire entered the body of the son of a brahmana and established itself there. Since he was ...
( Category: Sacred Writings December 17,2019 )
Good Things out of Nazareth by Flannery O'Connor & Ben Alexander
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Flannery O'Connor & Ben Alexander

FLANNERY O’CONNOR TO FATHER SCOTT WATSON CHRISTMAS 1960 It was good to hear from you and I was pleased with the item from the Nat. Review. There have been other ...
( Category: Essays December 17,2019 )
Unspoken Words by Ryan Shari J
epub |eng | 2019-10-15 | Author:Ryan, Shari J.

Chapter 25 Twenty-One Years Old – May, 1944 VIENNA, AUSTRIA It was a year later when I heard the words I didn’t expect to hear for another nine years: "Crane, ...
( Category: German December 17,2019 )
Nein. a Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski
epub |eng | 2015-10-14 | Author:Eric Jarosinski

Afterword This little book is the result of a rather spectacular failure. While struggling to write an academic tome, one I hoped might help me get tenure at an Ivy ...
( Category: Satire December 17,2019 )
Palace of Books by Roger Grenier
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Roger Grenier [Grenier, Roger]

Reading Reading, as much if not even more than writing, is an act that belongs to private life. Alone with a book. Perhaps we’ll recognize ourselves in the pages someone ...
( Category: Essays December 16,2019 )

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