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Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub | | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

Chapter III above.] [Note 34: _Robert Hunter, Sheriff of Dumbarton_. Hunter recognised the genius in Stevenson long before the latter became known to the world, and gave him much friendly ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

* * * THE BOTTLE IMP. Note. - Any student of that very unliterary product, the English drama of the early part of the century, will here recognise the name ...
( Category: Essays August 7,2019 )
McKettrick's Pride by Miller Linda Lael
epub |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]

CHAPTER 10 RANCE WATCHED, WITH HIS damnable McKettrick pride jammed up tight in his throat, as Jesse got out of his mud-spattered truck at the top of the driveway and ...
( Category: Essays August 6,2019 )
Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
epub |eng | 2019-02-20 | Author:Wendell Berry

With usury has no man a good house made of stone, no paradise on his church wall With usury the stone cutter is kept from his stone the weaver is ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker by Kathleen Hale
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Kathleen Hale [Hale, Kathleen]

Cricket Miss Georgia wept as if her entire family had died. She hugged her bouquet of thorny roses and was swallowed up in a group hug by her enemies. While ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
A Savage Life by Michael Savage
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Michael Savage

Seventeen My Silent Brother I REMEMBER THE DAY THEY GAVE JEROME AWAY. MY UNCLE Murray was crying like a baby in front of the South Bronx tenement we lived in. ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
Talking to Strangers by Paul Auster
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Auster

IV … with the conviction that, in the end, translating is madness. —MAURICE BLANCHOT As I was about to embark on the project of editing this anthology, a friend gave ...
( Category: United States August 3,2019 )
Farmer's Glory by A G Street
epub |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:A G Street [Street, A G]

We went over on the Friday, and took him two live turkeys and a bottle of White Horse whisky. All this sort of thing may seem childish, but at the ...
( Category: Essays August 3,2019 )
The Crack-Up by F Scott Fitzgerald
epub |eng | 1964-06-15 | Author:F Scott Fitzgerald [Fitzgerald, F Scott]

M MOMENTS (WHAT PEOPLE DO) Dogs: We went through a routine, with a lot of false starts, charges, leg and throat holds, rolling over, and escapes. I only barked a ...
( Category: Anthologies August 3,2019 )
Words and Worlds by Alison Lurie
epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:Alison Lurie

a middle-aged man— but time, gender, self are laws waived by his gold fan. A pearl-diver, a benevolent ghost, and a dancing dragon; that sounds about right. Bon voyage! I ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2019 )
Screen Tests by Kate Zambreno
epub |eng | 2019-06-09 | Author:Kate Zambreno

Wittgenstein’s Mistress It doesn’t seem believable Kate could get laid, said my graduate student. We had been reading David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Is it because, I asked, she is the ...
( Category: Feminist August 2,2019 )
Who's to Say What's Obscene? by Paul Krassner
epub |eng | 2013-11-21 | Author:Paul Krassner

4. SEVERAL DEAD ICONS GINSBERG’S LAST LAUGH Our paths had often crossed—at civil rights marches, antiwar rallies, marijuana smoke-ins, environmental demonstrations—he was always on the front lines, especially when it ...
( Category: Satire August 2,2019 )
In Praise of Indecency by Paul Krassner
epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Paul Krassner

MEET AN FBI PORN SQUAD AGENT MEET AN FBI PORN SQUAD AGENT In October 2006, a historic event occurred in the world of porn. Seven FBI agents sat down to ...
( Category: Canadian August 2,2019 )
Complete Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson
epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Samuel Johnson [Johnson, Samuel]

( Category: Ancient & Classical August 2,2019 )
What On Earth Have I Done? by Robert Fulghum
epub |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Robert Fulghum

47 Being There Crete. Spring. The fine kind of day that called me to take the long way home from a shopping trip to the nearby town of Chania. Away ...
( Category: Essays August 2,2019 )

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