Essays
epub |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]
* * * Postscript In agreeing to the interview Mr Vidal had armed himself with the stipulation that he would be able to see and check the piece before it ...
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United States
November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Eliane Brum [Brum, Eliane]
Class Struggle For the wealthy, old age may be more painful because it is made up only of losses. Everything slips through the hands of the elderly, especially power and ...
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Essays
November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darryl Pinckney
AUSTERE AND LONELY OFFICES In Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” a poem published in 1936, a narrator speaks for those who struggle—the poor white, the Negro bearing slavery’s ...
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Discrimination & Racism
November 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-10 | Author:Jenny Slate
When my dinner arrived, it was a plate and on the plate were two long, curved, naked hot dogs. The waitress seemed angry to have to give it to me. ...
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Essays
November 12,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:William Faulkner & James B. Meriwether (ed)
[University of Virginia Magazine, Spring 1958; collected in Faulkner in the University, edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, University of Virginia Press, 1959. The text printed here ...
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Letters
November 7,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Kerouac
Nosferatu (Dracula) Nosferatu is an evil name suggesting the red letters of hell—the sinister pieces of it like “fer” and “eratu” and “nos” have a red and heinous quality like ...
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United States
November 1,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hodson, Leighton;
NOTE 1 Cf. Edmund Wilson, No. 140, p. 408 for the notion of relativity. 74. Emma Cabire on subjectivism and love 1923 Part of ‘La conception subjectiviste de l’amour chez ...
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Essays
October 26,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-21 | Author:Johanna Skibsrud
* * * 1 “It is high time,” writes Marx, “that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet ...
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Poetry
October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Riley
Two years and ten months later: No time at all. No time. Three years after: And by now I’ve stopped making these notes. What follows is a postscript, drawing on ...
( Category:
Love Poems
October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Milan Kundera
10 I open the biography of Hemingway published in 1985 by Jeffrey Meyers, a professor of literature in an American university, and I read the passage on "Hills Like White ...
( Category:
Criticism & Theory
October 11,2019 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Shiv Aroor & Rahul Singh [Aroor, Shiv & Singh, Rahul]
8 ‘Climb over Me, Get to the Submarine!’ Lieutenant Commander Firdaus Mogal Arabian Sea, 220 km off the Mumbai coast 30 August 2010, 6.55 a.m. ‘THREE MEN OVERBOARD, SIR!’ Seventy ...
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Essays
October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Blaise Pascal [Pascal, Blaise]
*[Pyrrhus, pressed to justify his plans for world conquest, reputedly answered that his ultimate purpose was to rest content, but not before realizing his dreams of conquest.]
( Category:
Renaissance
October 8,2019 )
epub |fra | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert]
* * * 146 Robert Hass / 1999 its drained tongue as dead driftwood soaking the vein as these words float up out of body in a joke sharpened in ...
( Category:
Anthologies
October 8,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:John Updike
Every true story has an anticlimax. The men on the field refused to disappear, as would have seemed decent, in the smoke of Williams’ miracle. Fisher continued to pitch, and ...
( Category:
Essays
October 7,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-31 | Author:Boris Johnson
The information confounded him still more; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book, sat upon a window-seat and read. . . . The cheering sound ...
( Category:
Essays
October 7,2019 )
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